Tuatara

Fantastic. There is always just one more detail to remember!

OK, I thought you passedthrough M1015, I'm curious if this card being recognized by DSM or not. I wasted two evenings trying to install SIL3112 based PCIe-to-SATA card. I either got DOA card or my only PCI slot is broken .. going to ship it back. I tried passthrough of the M1015 ages back. Right now, I can't remember if I had it working ... I think so, but I probably compiled/added the driver myself. I did put in a number of different manufacturers cards - Sil3114 for certain, and also a JMicron JMB363 - in which I compiled and added the driver to the Synology, and also into ESXi (for fu

Paravirtual. Exactly as I'd specified in the "Idiot's Guide" (found earlier in this thread). I boot off the [Datastore] Synology/esxi_synoboot_3202_v2.vmdk - Configured as IDE (0:0) Hard Disk 1 SCSI Controller 0 - Paravirtual - No SCSI Bus Sharing All physical disks are RDM (Mapped Raw LUN) - Compatibility Mode (Physical) - vmdk files are stored in the VM directory (for example: /dev/sda) - vml.020000000050014ee25daf1b94574443205744 / [Datastore] Synology/WDC_2.0TB_1.vmdk - Configured as SCSI (0:0) Hard Disk 2 (8 total drives RDM on a M1015, with additional 5 drives RDM off Intel M

For interest, I'll give it a go ... shut down Synology ... clear the RDMFilter flag ... restart VM ... synology running ... SSH login ... and we're ready. Let's check my first RDM drive in the array ... [spoiler=smartctl -a /dev/sda]mediacat> smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [x86_64-linux-3.2.30] (local build) Copyright © 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD20EFRX-68AX9N0 Serial Number: WD-WCC1T0773149 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 25daf1b94 Firmware Version: 80.00A80

yes, i did reboot it. Rebooting won't do it. You have to RESTART the Virtual Machine in order for it to pick up the changed settings for the RDM controller. Restarting the Synology is still going to use the same VM setup!

Thanks for the hint =) I'm keen to try it, even though I'm running 5.5 currently, but can easily rebuild it with 5.1 as I'm not 'live' yet with my home lab. VMWare doesn't often remove base features in point updates. I'm positive that these options are also available in 5.5 ... it's just in 5.1 when they were first noted as being available. Regards, Tuatara

SMARTd is running on vSynology? I thought if one does RDM (ie created via vmkfstools {-z,-r} ), then SMART stats are not being exposed to a guest VM, vSynology in this case. Absolutely correct. There are NO SMART STATISTICS when using a RDM drive. This is BY DESIGN. However, we all know about pushing design limits! If you are using ESXi 5.1, and are willing to push boundaries, you can follow the guide available here: ESXi 5.1 and SMART monitoring In a nutshell (first post in the thread): All you need to do is the following and then any disk (not USB) you plugin in therea

After following the guide for wmware tools I could not get shutdown and reboot to work from the vSphere client. The problem was that the "shutdown" binary did not function on my Synology install. I decided to just create my own "shutdown" script and replace the binary that was in /sbin/ with it: You beauty! I remember doing a similar thing now! Umm ... yeah ... ... works great for me too. The script I had written was much simpler though ... mine only called poweroff, since that was all I cared about doing through vSphere at the time. I've updated my DSM 4.2 to your script -

Nice Cookin' Doc! I've tried now on Trantor's 4.3 version. Works like a charm Sweet! That's great news! I blame my SFTP transfer program - I had exported the file from the running Synology and saved it to a Windows Machine to attach to my post. Fantastic News! Easy fix ... and I'll go update my post with a fixed version immediately. This means that I did not miss anything in my notes, and the Idiot's Guide to VMTools could have been written! However, I hope that for everyone, the above post is good enough. You're (all) very welcome! [EDIT: Link to post for

can you tell which logs should contain VMware tools entries and is there any tools specific logging which can be enabled? I don't have the time to research/debug what it is I've done to get my version working (I do remember spending a reasonable amount of time on it though). I've probably forgotten something somewhere. It may be a few days (weekend?) before I can get back to you on this.

Ok ... I've got my installation working, and the vmtools always start up automatically without issue. Did you set the script to be executable? [chmod +x S22open-vm-tools.sh] Upon startup you should see "Starting VMWare Tools:" in the logfile if the [s22open-vm-tools.sh] script is executed. When starting the VMTools manually do they start up, and are visible in ESXi vSphere? [/opt/bin/vmtoolsd --background /var/run/vmtoolsd.pid] Can you control the running VMTools through vSphere [manually or automatic?] Check the logs to see if there is anything failing, or if the vmtools daemon can

How to install optware bootstrap and open-vm-tools into DSM 4.2 and 4.3 (to Update 3 - tested & confirmed) open-vm-tools can be installed, after installing the bootstrap for optware. After installing the syno open-vm-tools kernel files, the open-vm-tools themselves are installed as the standard ipkg. Add in a startup script, for DSM 4.2 only replace the shutdown binary with a script, and open-vm-tools are running in ESXi. Good Luck! Tuatara UPDATE: Fixed the ^M (linefeed) characters from the end of each line. I blame my SFTP transfer application on Windoze. UPDATE 2:

I have not yet migrated to DSM 4.3 (still watching the threads), and am personally still using DSM 4.2, so I can't really answer for any differences in DSM 4.3. I have VMWare tools compiled and installed under DSM 4.2, and have startup/shutdown/IP monitoring/etc. all working well for me. I'm not experiencing any (undue) long delays during shutdown.

Interesting ... I'm using 4.2, and with this version only SCSI controller 0 can be active (AFAIK). I didn't extensively try SCSI 1 - no need. In any case, why would you want to skip controller 0? (i.e. the first in the scanning order)

Tuatara I have run out of options. My DSM does not see any Disks, Volues VM loads and DSM runs, But no storage devices of any kind in Storage Manager. Build 4.3 v1.1 Config: HP Proliant Gen 8 16gb DDR Intel G1610 CPU 4 x WD-RE4 RDM's Separate SCSI Channel Would you look at my VMX? Thanks Hi NetSpider, No worries ... a quick look indicates that you have created a new SCSI Controller as Controller 1 and attached all of the drives to this controller. AFAIK the only controller supported must be SCSI Controller 0. You also have two E1000 network cards assigned to the