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    Introduce yourself here

    in The Noob Lounge

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    Hi folks,

    I'm a lost-cause kinda aging nerd - I can't help myself when it comes to trying out all kinds of options before paying for software (or hardware for that matter). The $$ aren't that big a problem - I guess I enjoy the challenge.
     
    Anyway, storage at home led me to a Freenas environment for a while. Working with linux for many years, I was keen to build up my freebsd skills. 

    It as a satisfying ride for quite some time. Freenas is everything you could want it to be. I bought a beefy whitebox and went crazy with virtualbox and all kinds of (sometimes tricky) configuration.

    At end-of-financial year, I decided to look for a low power box so I could leave the NAS functions online (already using many raspian boxes for various projects). I went shopping at my local (Ultimo in Sydney AUS) shop for a low power box to be my freenas always-on box..

    I had a bit of a rush of blood and bought a DS218+ and some new drives - go figure.. there were no good, cheap off the shelf options that didn't need a lot of fiddling about.

    The Synology DS218 became my favourite new toy. 

    In no time flat, I'm running out of space on the DS218 ;-)... Thought about a DS918+ and giving my DS218 to one of my kids.

    Somehow, I stumbled across the xpenology project and stopped dead in my tracks. I'm often asked by family and friends to help them with their home kit. What I've learned so far makes xpenology sound like a great option for people watching their dollars. I'm going to dive in and use it for a while - see if my daughter and sons might get a nice new Christmas present (build from spares or course - making something is always more satisfying than handing over $$$.

    Looking forward to the experience!
     
    Ben
    Awesome Ben I've been running Xpenology for 3 years now on my Dell R710 I also just picked up a synology DS718+

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    Can I use a Dell R710 PowerEdge server to run XPEnology?

    in DSM 6.x

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    Thanks that would be great! I am considering buying 2 and running it in Synology HA cluster. But I found out that while running HA you can't install and use Virtual Machine Manager, even if you don't want to use the HA features of that. You simply cannot backup your VMs through HyperBackup or regular HA cluster unless you have VMM Pro. But it's in beta and Synology says after Beta it will cost money... So on Xpenology it won't work because you need Synology account linked to buy a license. So that plane went out the door.
     
    Figured if the R710 works bare metal anyway I can just use it HA and forget VMM.
    I think you would be a lot better off running ESXI 6.7 you can run all the vms you want. But I'll still do the test for you.


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    Can I use a Dell R710 PowerEdge server to run XPEnology?

    in DSM 6.x

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    So has anyone been able to run bare metal DSM on the R710? Thinking about buying two and running a high availability setup for Virtual Machine Manager. Definitely want to be able to use all 4 built in NICs and the storage slots...
    I have a Dell R710 coming in next Monday. I will test a bare metal install for you.


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    CPU/MB advices for new build please.

    in General Questions

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    I can recomend long XPEnology life on old hardware with no problem.
    Currently running the latest 6.1.4  15217 upd 2 on DS3617xs 6.1 Jun's Mod V1.02b.
    I always recomend Gigabyte mobos with Intel chipsets for desktops for allmost 25 years of my  IT work experience.
    Gigabyte is synonym for performance, reliability and long life.
    My oldest, still running comp with GB, works 24/7/365 for 18 years with Win98 -  it controls an agriculture storage air-condition [emoji4]
    My HW :
    GA-EP45-UD3LR (7 years old, leaved by customer after his PC upgrade)
    Intel C2Q
    16GB RAM
    4x hot swap 4TB WDs RAID5 (RAID5 by DSM, not by mobos hardware), hot swap (Chieftec in my case) is not mandatory, but I found it very useful.
    Old components means less money [emoji4]
     
    I found a old desktop in the garbage. Just added a NIC and a couple 4 tb drives. Its been running XPEnology 24/7 for over two years now.

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    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    DS3617xs 6.1.1-15101 Update 4 Working fine so far on ESXI 6.5

     

    hi friend.....please can you give me your files for ESXI? i found only .img file, no other.

    help me,please.

    thanks

     

    I sent you a pm

     

    Hello friend. May I also have the files for ESXi? Many Many thanks

    I will when I get a chance. Been really busy with work. My server is not running by the way. We just moved to a new house :smile:

     

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    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    DS3617xs 6.1.1-15101 Update 4 Working fine so far on ESXI 6.5

     

    hi friend.....please can you give me your files for ESXI? i found only .img file, no other.

    help me,please.

    thanks

     

    I sent you a pm

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