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well, at this moment, still running baremetal, because i had the SMB copy speed issues only with ESX , that i couldnt fix but going to try now again, starting with 6.1 so i am going to install esxi on the SD card slot, instead of the USB you did , should not an issue going to put in this card : http://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=156 , i have it around, its a slower x1 lane, but should maybe work also, otherwise going to buy that asmedia 1061 you have so its goint to be similar good tip about that persistent - non persistent, i think i had the same issue also on 6.1 on my older ASROCK system thnx for the details

ok , its clear now i am going to make a second hard disk my datastore, that i will use for my DSM installation, shou should also work, so i can start testing without connecting the 4 drives first , should also work didnt know though, when you that synology copies the system on every disk thnx a lot for the help!! also you posted, that your vmdk 50 mb disk, is thick independent, persistent, shouldnt it be : non-persistent? i know that on 5.2 it needs to be non-persistent , maybe its different on 6.x

ok, thnx for the details, iam going to test it also with 1 GB , maybe i had performance issues because of the LEGACY AHCI mode, i used 2 GB for plex transcoding maybe 1 GB is enough also but i still dont understand where you installed your DSM on ?, you have tndeed the .vmdk file (disk1 ), that points to your synoboot.img , right? thats indeed to boot the system but first wizard of DSM, you need to select a disk to install the .pat file ? i dont see that disk in your screenshots? thats why i thought you used 1 of your 4 bay drives?

another extra question, where have you installed DSM on? on one of the 4 wd red in your front bay ? why dont you create a new hard disk on your datastore? so you can install DSM on your SSD ? or am i mistaken?

hi pigr8 , thanx for the detailed explenation well, you can boot from the SSD in odd port :-), in the bios you have selected ahci , but you can also select AHCI LEGACY mode when you reboot, go back in the bios, then you have 2 cougar controllers, then you can change boot order : cougar 2 , the cougar 1 , that way you can boot from ODD with esxi on but, anyway, dont try it, it really gives bad performance, i am going to buy an extra controller i have another question though, since you have the same hardware as me , i have terrible slow smb speeds if i run under esxi, if i do baremetal, it all works fine see my post here : have a look at the videos i created in my last post in that thread , i solved it on my other ASROCK system by lowering the memory from 4 to 2 , but i didnt use 1 GB , i see you are using 1 GB memory in your vm ? also last question : what esxi are you using? the HPE version? can you post me your iso filename? do you have disabled vmw_ahci can you try that ? do you run 5.2 or 6.1 ? can you maybe make an export of your vmware? thnx in advance!!!

Hi, i have an issue/something strange with my hp gen 8 microserver that server has a 4 porth bay, but if you setup the bios into ahci legaci mode, you can use the 5th ODD port, so i setup that port to first boot device, so i can attach an SSD to it so i install xpenology fine on that ODD port with SSD (synology 5.2 , and usb stick method) , my 4 bay ports are empty at this stage so the first wizard of xpenology, tells me that its going to install and format on DISK 3 ? really strange, since there is only 1 disk present but setup finish succesfully, afterwards i can perfect boot the xpenogy so i put in my 4 drives, but then xpenology doesnt boot anymore, seems DISK 3 , that number is being replace with another drive, and my SSD is now DISK 5 at this stage therefor the setup is now corrupt is there a way when i do the clean install, i tell the setup, that the SSD drive is already number 5 or something like that? thnx in advance

can you tell me your steps how you did it? or make some screens?

is no one using passtrough the sata card on a hp gen 8 ? (ahci mode) thnx

so to be sure, my ram wasnt defect, i used another 2 x 2 GB ram in my system on 2 GB host synology 5.2 is stable when copying when i put 3 GB or 4 GB on the virtual machine, i have the smb issue again

OMG, finally found it start testing again on my ASrock n3150 , i lowered the RAM from 4 to 2 GB problem gone??? been testing on a 5.2 system how is that possible?

tested the new 6.5 build , non HPE version, same issue then disabled ahci : esxcli system module set --enabled=false --module=vmw_ahci same issue i think above is another issue, its an issue/case to have better speeds the issue i have here , is that smb speed actually drops to 0 kb and eventually fails

sagrotan, do you had slow perfomance , but a stable performance? or dou you have the same issue as i posted earlied, that you can see in the video so it starts normal at 110 , then drops till 0 kb/sec ... because those are 2 different issues...

seems last week a new esxi 6.5 NON hpe released http://www.nxhut.com/2016/11/fix-slow-disk-performance-vmwahci.html it includes the latest fix, so gonna try that NON HPE iso from esxi : VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.5.0.update01-5969303.x86_64 installing now ...

do you have the same microserver gen8 hardware as me?

after some more testing, today configured an : ProLiant DL380 Gen9 , esxi 6.5 => same setup NO ISSUE wtf? so maybe its related to a microserver gen8 ? but there are so many people using it? whats wrong with it?

seems i am not the only one :

tried todat 6.1 , 1.02b loader 3615 , same issue on HP gen 8 and asrock 3150 systems

hi i have an hp gen 8 , so i have setup bios in ahci legacy mode, so i can boot from my ssd disk attached to the ODD port that works fine in esxi , i have passthrough the b120 sata controller, on my host, i have attached the pci device (controller) when i boot synology, it doesnt see the disks attached to the controller? how can i see those disks? i want to do this setup, to have the smart status ablility, with rdm its not possible thnx

started clean again on 5.5 , same issue

No, but it's not network related as you can see in video 2 , it's also happening within Synology itself

gonna try tomorrow with esxi 5.5

yes, tried ftp, but its slower and stable processer is normal , there is actually nothing else on that server installed, its a clean setup

as a real final test, reenabled smart array in bios, created a new raid 0 array (just 1 ssd disk) started over... same issue

ok, just started clean on a new HP gen 8 microserver => hp part => F9A40A => https://www.hpe.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04123182.pdf setup bios to ahci support, dont want to use smart array inserted 1 ssd disk installed clean esxi 6.5 on that ssd , used latest build : VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update1-5969303-HPE-650.U1.10.1.0.14-Jul2017 created a new host with synology 5.2 to test, see screenshot of the config : https://www.dropbox.com/s/54toxj4gfn7ya5b/settings.JPG?dl=0 & https://www.dropbox.com/s/xri734f6kwhmsp7/settings2.JPG?dl=0 created 1 volume , 1 share ... , nothing else test 1 start copying ... bam ... smb copy transfer slow, created a video of it, so you can see whats actually happening : video here = https://www.dropbox.com/s/81ocyt1d2vhbigk/syn5-1.avi?dl=0 ( just coping over network 2 iso files, it starts happening from 25% ...it gets worse and worse, eventually stopped filming, because it never finishes... (see end of movie) test 2 you see 1 iso file 6 gb was succesful, rebooted synology first, whent into "file station" from synology itself, just started copying that iso file to another folder on the SAME share , bam, same issue video here = https://www.dropbox.com/s/1cpmqjoxdx60a5w/syn5-2.avi?dl=0 this can exclude network / laptop issues ... really frustating and above configuartion is pretty straight forward ... nothing fancy - same identical test when running bare metal ... no issues - same identical test when running esxi standard on a asrock mainboard n3150 , same issue , so we can exclude HP hardware , i used 6.0 there , this version : ESXi-6.0.0-20160804001-standard-customized so we can exclude 6.0 vs 6.5 ... i dont know what to test anymore...

hi Palcia, can you do the same test as i did in my previous post? thnx