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  1. It says Failed to shutdown the VM and a lot of text, that the integration services are not installed or runnning blah di blah... Have no clue why it does behave like this then.
  2. Can't insert (any of the four modules) : File exists
  3. So to be clear here, you say that the Vanilla ESXi image works just fine in AHCI mode, and for Raid 0 for each disk(if needed from some reason) it would also work? Actually the only reason I go with the Raid 0 is that I use SSD in the DVD Rom bay as a boot device, which does not work in AHCI mode.
  4. haydibe: well, I did not try to do the ESXi as you write, however my current config with the Hyper-V is the same, all disks are as Raid 0. The SMART inforamtion is not forwarded to the VM (all smart options are greyed out within DSM). Maybe I will try again the ESXi(which I personally like a lot more than Hyper-V) with the Raid0 setup.
  5. Can you please explain how to load those modules? I am a little n00b here.
  6. Hi I have all of those listed as well. My version is DSM 5.-5967 Update 2. The only issue I have is, that I need the VM to shutdown properly when restarting the Hyper-V. Currently the sutdown is by force.
  7. Aigor, I am not sure how to determine if I have the latest version and how to update to the latest if I have an out-of date one. Please advice.
  8. sfu420: As I stated before here, I had very bad experience with ESXi 6 (latest update 2) and the Microserver. However I have used a ESXi image by HP. I googled a lot and have found that the SATA Raid driver is not working OK in that image, so I installed an older version as suggested. But it did not help at all. My experience was, that almost by any Disk operations within the vSphere, it caused the server to stop responding. I did not use the original ESXi image by VMWare. I am using Hyper-V now and it works just fine, even by Hard Drive Passthrought.
  9. I'd like to know if this is possible. I just need something to make the VM shutdown properly when restarting the Hyper-V server. Currently it shuts down forcibly, so before rebooting the Hyper-V I have to login to the machine and shut it down properly before reboot
  10. Hi, maybe a little off topic, but I have tried the HP MS Gen8 with ESXi 6(latest) image by HP and the experience was really bad. Each time I wanted to do almost any operation with disks, it always stopped responding and I had to forcibly shut it down. Have tried to downgrade the HP Raid drivers, but it did not resolve the instability. I am now running Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 without any trouble, XPenology runs fine, passthrough disk vritualization also works as it should. I'd recommend to use either original ESXi iso or rather try Hyper-V.
  11. Can you please provide me some link of that? Nevermind, I have found it in the forums...
  12. Can you please provide me some link of that?
  13. Thanx for suggestion, I do not plan to change the hypervisor OS, but if I face something that just does not work for me at ESXi I might consider Proxmox...
  14. Thanks, I know that article, and also I know, that the Xeon E3s are expensive. For my purpose, I think the G1610T will be just fine. However the power TDP is quite high for that CPU. I do not plan to add any RAID controller now and same for upgrading the CPU. Just IPFire or Mikrotik or some linux router will be running there and XPEnology.
  15. Thanks haydibe, I have to check If the built in SATA controller can handle that.
  16. Hello dear community, I have bought the Microserver Gen8 with Celeron G1610T CPU and 8GiB of RAM. The ESXi 6 is booting from USB flash drive. I have 3 Hard drives installed in the Server 120GB SSD one LUN that hosts XPenology VM + Router VM. Then I have 1TB and 2 TB hard drives to use as storage for the XPenology. The CPU does not support VT-d so I'd like to know what is the best practice to have XPenology VM use all of the space available on the two disks? I plan to create a separate LUN on each of the disks and then create a virtual disk on each of them Thick Provisioned taking all available space on the physical disks. Then I'd like to have two virtual disks within XPenology, one 1TB and the other 2TB. No need to set RAID. Is this plan OK or is there a better way how to achieve this? Thanks in advance.
  17. Great guide, thanks for that. Is this still applicable for ESXi 6 and the DSM 5.2 please?
  18. After some google research made, I have the impression, that the N3700 CPU is almost the same power as the older(and more power consuming) J1900. Therefore I have to look for something better, such as some core i3 CPU witch active cooler + mITX board with a standard CPU socket. Again, any suggestions will be appreciated. I have checked also the Avoton Atom C2750 which has regarding to benchmarks even less power than the J1900.
  19. Thanks for reply, so now I know that it's working with the current build. Did you have to install any additional drivers? If somebody can comment on the CPU power vs encoding videos, I'd appreciate.
  20. And there is another question, if Intel N3700 passive cooled mITX board can handle the Streaming video to one device, maximum two occasinally while keeping the CPU load at some acceptable level. Currently I get to 100% CPU load when streaming video to one device with the J1900 CPU. In particular: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813157626 I don't know if all the 4 SATA ports will be working, two are ASM1061 and the other two are probably intel and if the LAN RTL811GRis supported.
  21. Hello community, is there any best practice how to proceed when upgrading Mainboard on existing XPEnology system? I now have Intel J1900 mITX mainboard and I am thinking of upgrading to something more powerful in order to be able to stream movies to one, max two devices. Definetly I will upgrade to Intel chipset/CPU. Do I need to re-install completely or will the system "survive" the upgrade? What is the best recommended practice? Thanks
  22. Interesting reading guys, thanks for this. Hopefully Synology releases the surce code soon, so we cah upgrade to DSM6. Until that happens, I am totally happy with the latest version. I have tried freenas, openmediavault, Zyxel Real NAS, QNAP, ubuntu server custom made NAS and more, but hands down, Synology is the best out there for SOHO. And the devs are making it possible for us to buil our own hardwer using the best OS ever made for SOHO NAS-es. Big big big thanks to all of those involved.
  23. Hello sbv3000, today I installed the card and two 2.5" disks and everything went smooth. I had absolutely no trouble. XPEnology automatically recognized the SIL SATA card and the drives. I used non-raid bios 4.x as you suggested. No data was corrupt or deleted, all the shared drives work and all services too. Thank you for your help.
  24. Hi sbv3000 I've managed to install the bxxxxx BIOS from the SIL website. Thanks for pointing that out. I've noticed that the "Press Ctrl+S To enter RAID config" message is no longer displayed while booting. So I'd say that I have installed the non-RAID BIOS as you suggested. As soon as I have my disk drives at home, I will backup my data and proceed to the installation of the PCI card and additional 2 disks into my build. Thanks for your suggestions and I will report back how it all went, so that anyone else can find this thread in case of similar situation. Have a nice Sunday.
  25. Thanks for reply. I did not know about the bios, I will post here how it went.
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