tlab
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I used to Vmware to host my Minecraft server along with a Windows machine. Only issue with Xpenology was lack of SMART status and temp on hard disk. Thoughtput capped at about 70MB/ss on a E8500 CPU.
Since the system disk broken, I switched to bare metal. Now the throughput max at 110MB/s. Also managed to use docker to host a Minecraft server. Going to explore Virtualbox to host a Windows machine later. The system now suffer from BIOS corruption every time it boot up and requires to press F1 key. Not perfect but acceptable. At least the hard disk status report is now useful.
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For what you you need windows, if you have docker?
It's for an old Starcraft server. Sometimes as remote desktop.
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I used to Vmware to host my Minecraft server along with a Windows machine. Only issue with Xpenology was lack of SMART status and temp on hard disk. Thoughtput capped at about 70MB/ss on a E8500 CPU.
Since the system disk broken, I switched to bare metal. Now the throughput max at 110MB/s. Also managed to use docker to host a Minecraft server. Going to explore Virtualbox to host a Windows machine later. The system now suffer from BIOS corruption every time it boot up and requires to press F1 key. Not perfect but acceptable. At least the hard disk status report is now useful.
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How can I schedule the automatic boot? I've schedule a shutdown and it works but automatic scheduled boot doesn't. I have activated Wol. I don't know why it doesn't work.
Anybody who can help me?
Thank you.
On my machine it is not possible as BIOS is not compatible. Not sure if any other mobo could work.
There is a thread on this forum mentioned a workaound to use another device to WOL wake up Xpenology. I'm on mobile now but you may do a search for the topic.
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still not getting stable speeds.
Fresh install on the N40L. I am getting stuff transferred now but it is awfully slow.
Currently moving 4K Jessica Jones and it goes from 3 to 40MB/S.
I am going to have to put it down to the disks, will have some replacements soon and will just try 1 of them on its own.
Can you do any sort of scans/test from within DSM or do I need to remove the disks?
I usually use MHDD for low level health check. But it would take a day to finish entire surface. Most of the time run for 15 mins can already give a good indication.
MHDD needs offline and in DOS mode and IDE setting in BIOS.
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still not getting stable speeds.
Fresh install on the N40L. I am getting stuff transferred now but it is awfully slow.
Currently moving 4K Jessica Jones and it goes from 3 to 40MB/S.
I am going to have to put it down to the disks, will have some replacements soon and will just try 1 of them on its own.
Can you do any sort of scans/test from within DSM or do I need to remove the disks?
I usually use MHDD for low level health check. But it would take a day to finish entire surface. Most of the time run for 15 mins can already give a good indication.
MHDD needs offline and in DOS mode and IDE setting in BIOS.
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I started another before realized this post is very much alive.
My HP DC7900 has CMOS reset everytime booted with Xpenoboot 5.2 USB even before install DSM. Nanoboot 32bit has no such problem. Unfortunately we don't have 32bit Xpenoboot available or otherwise many of us can benefit from headless server. I don't need WOL nor scheduled power on. All I needed is proper power on and shutdown.
Seems I have to compromise. Changing mobo will turn this DC7900 into useless metal.
Wish everyone a happy new year!
Yeah, if you want to the lastest and greatest, using XPEnoboot, then that is the price you pay for.....
unfortunately.If are happy about using Nanoboot, then should continue using it.
Question in my mind never get answer.....under what special reason that the developers were not
able to crack their heads and solve this age old problem????
All the best for the coming year 2016.
It's really an old issue. This thread alone is 18 months old.
Hapoy New Year to all!
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Downgrade hpvsa drivers to scsi-hpvsa-5.5.0-88OEM.550.0.0.1331820.x86_64.vib, it will get better.
Thanks, will give this a go. Would this be in addition to RDM or a way of avoiding that?
My N40L has arrived, is it worth trying the same 2 X 2TB drives in that and should I install XPEnology natively or as a VM again?
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Why not try driver first? If it's solve the issue, you can then decide if rdm is needed or not. My suggest is also to go with rdm unless you plan to share the hard disk with other VMs.
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This is a better example of a transfer failing/slowing.
I'm not sure why the dramatic change. Given that it does transfer at top speed in the beginning, it worth to try RDM to see if the bottleneck can be relieved.
Setup RDM is easy. Just need couple of command lines. The rest is similar to regular vmdk. You can do from ssh. Drive symbol is long so better do copy and paste.
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micros ... Id=1017530
My ESXI crashed and I'm able to keep a RDM disk on a new bare metal installation. Really cool if you may setup bare metal one day.
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On old machine like my E8500, RDM does improve speed by over 50%. Another benefit I just realized is that the RDM can direct migrate to bare-metal Xpenology.
Did you have a problem where it starts off quick and slows?
Mine seems to be random, up and down if it is a large file.
Same to me. Start up fast and dropped after a while. Would it be the buffer which help in the beginning?
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I was having a nightmare with FreeNAS and JAILS so decided to spend the time switching to XPEnology. The process went smoothly, I had my VM booting up without any issues and I was extremely impressed with XPEnology so hats of to people who work on that because my problems/issues are outside of that.
I have setup PlexMediaServer which also went smoothly so at this point I was really happy but then it come to transferring my media and it all came crashing down
My transfers start out about 100MB/s but then they come to crawl <5MB/S.
I have been formatting the disks, trying different RAID types or individual Volumes but still having the same issues.
I have just removed the disks, put them in my desktop and ran some tests which were all fine. I also didn't have speed issues with FreeNAS nor do any other VMs on the Host so I think I have something configured wrong.
I have seen a couple of posts about setting up RDM, but I have also seen people report stable 100MB/s with a HP N54L so I don't think I need to go down that road.
Specs;
HP N54L - 16GB RAM (6GB to XPEnology)
HP NC360T + Onboard (3 x GB)
I have teamed the 2 x HP so it shouldn't be a network bottleneck.
2 X 2TB Samsung Drives + added 1TB for SHR.
I was that impressed with XPEnology I have ordered another HP N40L and was going to put in my spare 2GB ECC memory into that making it 4GB ECC. Populate it with4 x 3/4TB drives making it a dedicated NAS for media and VMs but that will go on hold now until I know if running this one as a VM is the issue.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what could be causing my speed issues?
I am just wiping the disks now as I type help and will try all 3 disks in a SHR group again to see if anything has changed.
On old machine like my E8500, RDM does improve speed by over 50%. Another benefit I just realized is that the RDM can direct migrate to bare-metal Xpenology.
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check out this long thread about bios resets on certain motherboard/bios makes
Thanks alot sbv3000! It's seem F1 is unavoidable for the time being.
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I started another before realized this post is very much alive.
My HP DC7900 has CMOS reset everytime booted with Xpenoboot 5.2 USB even before install DSM. Nanoboot 32bit has no such problem. Unfortunately we don't have 32bit Xpenoboot available or otherwise many of us can benefit from headless server. I don't need WOL nor scheduled power on. All I needed is proper power on and shutdown.
Seems I have to compromise. Changing mobo will turn this DC7900 into useless metal.
Wish everyone a happy new year!
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Yes, on my hardware the DSM 5.2-5644 Update 2 with XPEnoboot 5.2-5592.2 x64 and VirtualBox works.
On DSM 5.2-5644 Update 2 with XPEnoboot 5.2-5644.1/4 x64 the VirtualBox does not work.
Good to hear that. I just installed DSM 5.2-5592.4 with XPEnoboot 5.2-5592.2 and phpVirtualBox 4.3.30.1 (from xpenology.me). On top I setup first MineOS VM and it works after a little bit of twists. No finding enough reasons to upgrade DSM though.
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And you are sure that the bios battery's are not empty?
I replaced the battery already. Positive that the corruption is caused by the Xpenoboot USB (even without any harddisk attached).
It seems to me that the clock has been changed during the boot up process and that's somehow corrupted the CMOS. Every time this happens, the clock was set backward to GMT.
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Happy New Year to everyone!
I've a healthy HP DC7900 and trying to use it as a headless NAS. After spent few days googling and testing, I realized BIOS CMOS corruption happens to DC7900 and many other machines running Xpenology. Every time the machine reboot, CMOS will corrupt and BIOS will prompt to press F1 to continue.
My little investigation found following:
- BIOS is corrupted right after Xpenoboot USB startup (Xpenoboot S3615xs5.2-5644.4). So not related to DSM itself.
- Nanoboot x86 as DS214play has no such issue (I'm still trying to figure out other issue though). Some posts also said 32 bit nanoboot has no such issue and DS214play is the only 32-bit x86 model.
May I know if anyone has a fix or workaround? I'm hoping if a x86 version of XpenoBoot could be available to fix the issue. I'm okay with the inherited limitations of DS214play.
Thank you!
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Notes:
Use /dev/gnoboot1 to mount ext2 boot image.
Thanks! That's help in name of type of boot. However, I got the following error message when trying to mount:
/ # mount -t ext2 /dev/gnoboot1 /mnt mount: mounting /dev/gnoboot1 on /mnt failed: Invalid argument / #
Tried /boot and same result. I checked ext2 is available (cat /proc/filesystems). Guess the mount syntax isn't correct, right? Sorry for this basic linux question.
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gnoBoot 10.4 works perfectly on my ESXi over past few weeks. Thank you for the great work and kudos to gnoBoot!
Now that 10.5 is out. Is there a way to remount boot drive and replace zImage within SSH? I used to replace zImage in vmdk but hope to make upgrade even simpler.
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The update works for me.
In the DSM GUI, click the download button to pull down the update from Synology (do not run it yet)
Do a shell connection to your server as root and issue the following commands
sed 's/flashupdateDeb/flashupdateDeb1/' /autoupd@te.info > /autoupd@te.info1 mv /autoupd@te.info1 /autoupd@te.info
Go back to the DSM Gui and click the Update button.
Setch
It works for me. Thank you!
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I have a quick question, how do I upgrade from gnoBoot Alpha 10.3 to 10.4 or future releases?
I have my DSM 5 with gnoBoot 10.3 up and running and would like to do future upgrades without loosing my current configuration.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Zeek
I replaced 10.4 zImage file from previous 10.3 vmdk using OSFMount+StarWind V2V.
My previous 10.3 issues still exists:
1. vSphere Client shows VMware Tools running but not installed (!). No IP address shown too. Attempted to reinstall vmtool spk but same result.
2. Video Station stream mkv but failed to transcode. Original playback quality works though.
My setup: ESXi on DC7900 / Q6600
Annoying BIOS reset issue is really bugging me!!!
in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)
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Impressive “updateing”! Really hope to see this efforts can be integrated soon.
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