Hi,
I'm planning to update my Xpenology server from 5.2 to 6.x and wonder if I should rebuild everything from Xpenology on bare metal to Xpenology in a vmware virtual setup.
Today I run Pfsense, openhab, plex in XPenology I got 5 Network cards, but if I want to use a network card in PFsense since this is running in virtual box I get a conflict with Xpenology since I need to add this network card to Synology first before I add it to virtualbox. I try not to do to much manual coding in Synology since it mean a lot to think about when upgrading versions.
My major is to be able to run a steady Synology and Firewall hopefully also OpenHab, but not sure if I should swap over to vmware as the bottom layer.
I also run other virtual maskins, It also seems hard to add new network cards and subnets without Synology is there to see and control.
When running plex on Synology with several subnets it looks like plex takes the last subnet added to synology an believe that this is the default network.
my HW is:
HDD: 3 x Seagate NAS 3TB, 1 x 79 GB
Mem: 4 x Crucial DDR3 BallistiX Sport 8GB
MB: ASUS A88XM-PLUS, Socket-FM2+
Pros.: AMD A8-7600, Socket-FM2+
Any recommendations/experiences on using VMWare as bottom layer on my server instead of XPEnology?
Regards
RS