[Bare metal Xpenology vs vmware]

I believe he is asking about running Xpenology in an ESXi VM vs bare metal.

 

Yes

 

One would be insane to use the built in virtualization built into Xpenology vs VMware or other well developed methods, unless it's, just to try it.

Who would use Xpenology for production? I would fire you for even suggesting that!

 

I would never run XPenology in a Company setup ever for reasons not needed to write down, but for my home environment with backup of important data it's ok.

 

Now that said, I run Xpenology in an ESXi 6.0 VM, and it runs very well and I will not run it bare metal, but for my Sophos firewall I run it bare metal, save lots of problems when you play with servers and VM's. The only reason I use Xpenology is for hobby use and because of SHR. It makes the best use of old odd sized hard drives. For any other important storage I use ZFS, whether it is freenas, nas4free or omnios & napp-it.

 

Also for me this is just hobby and I'm trying to minimalize the amount of hardware I need at home. Today it works good with Xpenology 5.2 avd VirtualBox for FW (Pfsense), and other small test setup. The only problem is that I can't lock nics into virtualbox, means I need to set it up in Synology first and this creates some noise in the network.

Extra modules I use in Synology are OpenHab and PLex. For me the only reason for upgrade to 6.1 are that I can upgrade to newer versions of Openhab and Plex (64 bit).

 

Roy

[Bare metal Xpenology vs vmware]

Thanks TG-88 for your insight. I'll try out as you say first and see if it meets my needs if it does I'll run a full scale test on my hardware to see if jun's loader handle it before I do upgrade.(anyway I need to make a full backup of the old server before upgrade not only important data

[Bare metal Xpenology vs vmware]

Yes, I was thinking about virtualize XPEnology into VMWare side by side with Firewall.

Since I think that would be a better solution rather than having the Firewall Virtualized in XPEnology with the network cards (nics) conflict it makes.

 

of course having a small computer or FW box extra would be a solution, but then it starts growing with boxes again.

 

Question: Will DSM 6 be able to lock nic into virtualized server or do I still needed to add it into DSM 6 with full IP setup?

 

 

 

My production is for home environment so the critical here are the backups of my private data.

[Bare metal Xpenology vs vmware]

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

[What hardware are you using?]

SW:

BootLoader: XPEnoboot DS3615xs 5.2-5592.2

DSM: DSM_5.2-5644 Update-5

VB: Virtual Box 5.0.10 (104061)

 

HW:

HDD: 3 x Seagate NAS HDD 3TB, 1 x 79 GB (used for Pagefile and Swapfile VB)

Memory: 4 x Crucial DDR3 BallistiX Sport 8GB

MotherBoard: ASUS A88XM-PLUS, Socket-FM2+

Processor: AMD A8-7600, Socket-FM2+

 

Waiting for adding HP - NC364T to the box

 

rs

[Virtualbox and phpVirtualbox on XPEnology]

Same problem here.

 

I have 2 VM, 1 windows 7 and 1 unbuntu, in bridged mode with different ports for each VM.

If i launch a second VM when the first is running phpvirtualbox stop responding, the VM stop at 20% and after, same if i try to stop the packet virtualbox not responding and same if i try to shutdown the xpenology server not responding.

Only hard shutdown work after this.

 

 

I experienced this too, but after I downgraded the bootloader to XPEnoboot DS3615xs 5.2-5592.2 Virtualbox are working like a charm. I'm running latest version of DSM, DSM_5.2-5644 Update-5.

 

rs