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  1. Hi Would like to thank oktisme other forum members for all the hard work and time providing support to make it possible to run DSM6 on VM/ESXi I just wanted to share my experience with VMware Fusion and ESXi6u2 1. DSM 6 VM (any version 12, 11 and 10) works perfectly fine with VMware Fusion 8.1 on my Mac. 2. Tried to export DSM 6 VM to OVA format but failed, used v2v convertor for the vmdk image files and after that I can successfully export to ova format 3. Tried to import to ESXi6u2 imported successfully but failed to boot the disk. 4. Tried to install DSM 6 using the provided ISO and PAT file on VMware Fusion 8.1 as Version 12. First booted with Install option and installed the dsm 6 using the provided patched pat file. on first reboot, selected option RUN but dsm is in Migration state (failed) 5. Imported the provided ova file with 16GB of disk image to ESXi6u2. It booted successfully as hardware version ESXi5.5. configuration done. Created Disk Group and volume with BTRFS. Everything super smooth. (OVA imported and worked successfully) 6. from step 5 I upgrade the VM hardware version to ESXi6 and on boot DSM status in in Migration mode. (failed with hardware version ESXi6) 7.same as step 4 I tried to manually install using ISO and PAT file on ESXi6 but failed. As on first boot use Install and after installing DSM on second boot used RUN but DSM is in migrations state. (failed) 8. As in Step 5 I noticed that when I imported the ova file it is ESXi version 5.5. So I manually created a virtual machine in ESXi6u2 with Hardware version ESXi5.5 with the first boot disk as IDE (independat/non-presistent) and second disk SATA (independent/persistent). I booted from the ISO file and selected install. After installing DSM 6 with the provided PAT file system rebooted , this time system used boot HDD and RUN option. DSM 6 is ready (Manual Install Successful) Conclusion: 1. Anyone want to install manually on ESXi6u2, create a new VM with hardware version ESXi5.5, follow other guide lines for disk and it works perfectly. While creating vm on ESXi you can choose the disks to be thin provisioned. It works perfectly fine. 2. Similarly if anyone want to install of VMWare Workstation/Fusion I suggest to use HardwareVersion 10 which is compatible with ESXi5.5 don't forget to change the ethernet to e1000e in .vmx file manually. Questions: a. Why DSM 6 does not work with ESXi hardware version ESXi6 ? --> At the moment I am not experienced with ESXi. anyone experienced might be able to guide or point to the right direction b. How can I install the vmware tools? is there any added advantage for DSM? c. To oktisme, can you guide me or direct me to the some wiki , how can I setup and patch DSM 6 myself?
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