carlosdanger

Hey guys, just wanted to confirm that these instructions also work for those who have xpenology under esxi. Mine updated on its own over the weekend and I was able to restore it back following these instructions. Many thanks to the original poster. It's even easier in esxi because you get to see what ip address synology gets reset to in console and your don't need putty. It can all be done in vsphere client. Mine wasn't even booting into 6.0 as it kept saying that "We've detected that the hard drives of your current DS3615xs had been moved..." I chose the 2nd option under installation prompt, but don't worry it won't format your drives. I don't think 6.0 can get access to your drives if you are using xpanoboot anyway. I let it download the files on its own because it wouldn't accept any of my pat files. Once you set your admin account your can just follow the instructions from here from the console. The 2nd time it let me use my old pat files. And yes use sudo su and vi. If you are using a different bootloader, I can't say this method will work. You can always create a new VM and use your old disk images.