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unmesh started following Looking for ideas for small NAS, Large network file transfer performance over SMB, Odd booting behavior on HP Microserver and 1 other
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Large file transfers between the VM on the Lenovo TS140 and the HP N54L have historically been limited to approximately 95MB/s by the Gigabit Ethernet link. I got 10Gigabit NICs for both and have recently got around to testing performance. For the network, iperf3 shows about 9Gbps transfer between the two. The ESXi server happens to have a NVMe drive in addition to hard drives so I used the former for one end of the storage transfer. The HP only has hard drives though it is a modern one and dd writes from /dev/zero occur at 250MB/s and dd reads to /dev/null occur at 150MB/s after f
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OP asked about putting the synoboot image in a datastore on a USB drive. I wanted to create USB drives with the latest version of 6.5, 6.7 and 7.0 to test which ones would boot on a variety of PCs and learned that one could create a datastore on the ESXi boot drive itself! The following link was instrumental. https://www.horizonbits.com/2017/02/19/squeezing-esxi-on-usb/ I haven't tried it as a datastore for deployment though.
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@bearcat, I could only boot with the USB stick with the wrong VID/PID and wanted to edit grub.cfg while running DSM. When I SSH'ed in, I noticed that there wasn't a /dev/synoboot1 available to mount. Having used FixSynoBoot.sh on ESXi, I remembered reading that it had helped with some baremetal installs so I tried it and it did! I will try and find some time to do a clean install
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It's the same USB stick, so by elimination, it's the image but I don't know how to test the image other than booting from it.
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I've had a N54L running for several years and thought getting a N40L running would be piece of cake. Something changed to make it difficult and I'm hoping to figure out what out of curiosity now more than anything else.
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The serial number is a previous serial number +1 and I don't remember how I got that one. The first MAC address is a Realtek based add-in NIC made by TP-Link while the second is the Broadcom embedded NIC I use Win32DiskImager too. And here is something new. I used Win32DiskImager to flash a USB disk with the image previously used for the N54L, booted the N40L with that stick and a new hard drive, installed DS3615xs 6.2.3, enabled SSH, installed FixSynoBoot.sh, mounted /dev/synoboot1, edited grub.cfg with the same information shown above, saved a copy of it t
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I've been running fine on a baremetal N54L and was able to get my hands on a N40L to use for remote backup. In any case, I added a PCIe NIC to it, mounted the saved synoboot.img file from my N54L installation into OSFmount and edited grub.cfg with a new serial number, the MAC addresses of the two NICs (I realize that is not necessary) and the new VID:PID of the boot USB stick. I flashed the .img file to the stick using Win32DiskImager and booted the N40 without any hard drives It seemed to boot but then failed with several error: can't find command 'common_add_option' messag
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I recently upgraded one of my GbE NICs on a N54L to a 10GbE NIC and was gratified to see that SMB Multichannel still worked with 10+1 GbE on the server and 1+1 GbE on my Windows 10 desktop. Throughput for large file transfers was understandably capped at 200-ish MBps. I then bought another 10GbE NIC to do a similar upgrade on my ESXi7 server which is configured with two vswitches, one for each of its GbE NICs. While ESXi recognizes the Mellanox NIC and I can log into the server on either of the two IP addresses, SMB Multichannel performance is only around 100-ish MBps.
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I found a post that talks about compiling a driver for the RTL8125 for the 1.04b DS918+ loader.
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Very nice form factor! Though dual 2.5Gbps is definitely overkill for the application Does DSM have drivers for the RTL8125? Thanks.
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I'd like to put together a x86/x64 1-bay NAS with a 10TB 3.5" hard drive and drop it off at a friend's location as a remote NAS backup target but the SFF/Thin-Client PCs I see are typically designed for 2.5" drives. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough and someone can suggest devices. An alternative would be to hang a USB 3.0 drive off a power sipping thin client running Xpenology which would look a little kudgey. I've found the instructions to have DSM use USB drives as internal drives but is this a bad idea? Thanks
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My (failing) memory though that was what I had done originally and I managed to find some notes that said I should use the first entry so you are correct. I also decide to compare all the BIOS settings against my notes and discovered that C1E had somehow gotten enabled . Weak CMOS battery, perhaps? I suspect that putting back the old USB stick and hard drives will now work. The Mellanox is first in PCIe enumeration so the only way to have a 1Gbe first is to take the card out and optionally put the Intel NIC back. Good news is that the system booted and I could access th
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So here are the steps I took on a Windows machine to prepare the USB stick: - Downloaded 3615 1.03b bootloader zip file from the repository and extracted synoboot.img - Used OSFmount to mount partition 0 as a writeable letter drive - Inserted a flash drive into a USB port and used USBdeview to determine its VID:PID - Navigated to the grub folder and edited grub.cfg to change the VID:PID, change the serial number, change/add MAC addresses for the Mellanox and the integrated NICs, and uncomment the menu items for AMD - Save the file, dismount the image - Use
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I will go through the steps again. Should a 3615 1.03b loader work with the Mellanox in the system with the DAC cable plugged in? Do I need to prep/zero the hard drive in any way? Thanks
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I have 4 small/old hard drives in the N54L so I decided that I would buy a 12TB faster hard drive to go with my 10G NIC. However, when I replaced the 4 drives with this one and tried to reboot, I could not get to the web page which asks me about a new installation. I even booted off an Ubuntu USB stick to make sure the disk and the built-in and Mellanox NICs were still accessible; they were. I then put the original hard drives back but it still won't get on the network. I then flashed a 3615 1.03b bootloader image on a new flash drive with a new VID:PID but that won't b