[Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on ESXi 6.7]

Any news on getting VMXNET3 working on 6.2.2 and above?

 

I want to upgrade, but don't want to lose 10G networking, and my switches don't have enough ports for me to do an additional passthrough card 

[Am I a fool? XPEnology and VMware question]

Mine is setup as a DS3615xs on Jun 1.03b with just a few tweaks to the iso and I'm stuck on 6.2-23739 as I need the VMXNET3 network card support.

 

 

[DSM 6.2 loader does not run correctly in VirtualBox/VMWare]

On 11/23/2018 at 7:20 AM, Shperrung said:

I think that no matter what is CPU because question is about installation into VM Oracle.

I join to asking about a need 2 files for installation into VM:

Synoboot.img is loader

Synoboot.vmdk ????

Many times I read tutorials where clearly wrote what is need to do with synoboot.img but synoboot.vmdk just is needed to be placed into vm's folder. But there is no further instruction where it has to be applied 😕

 

synoboot.vmdk just point the VM boot process to synoboot.img where you actually have some real data

you can mount synoboot.img and modify it with serial number, mac adress, etc.

 

[Am I a fool? XPEnology and VMware question]

Running XPEnology under ESXi is awesome. Sorry, I can't talk you out of it :)

 

I have a whitebox running a Supermicro X9 board with Mellanox network cards and pass through a LSI2308 SAS controller to the XPEnology VM and it works perfectly for me.

This is with SMB and 8 x 3TB drives in Raid 6...

 

Running a 1000MB file write on W: 5 times...
Iteration 1:    819.93 MB/sec
Iteration 2:    657.03 MB/sec
Iteration 3:    611.12 MB/sec
Iteration 4:    616.80 MB/sec
Iteration 5:    638.62 MB/sec
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Average (W):    668.70 MB/sec
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Running a 1000MB file read on W: 5 times...
Iteration 1:   1076.32 MB/sec
Iteration 2:   1391.45 MB/sec
Iteration 3:   1446.50 MB/sec
Iteration 4:   1477.59 MB/sec
Iteration 5:   1297.04 MB/sec
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Average (R):   1337.78 MB/sec
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[Tutorial/Reference: 6.x Loaders and Platforms]

Awesome matrix...thank you!!

 

One thing that would be really cool to add would be whether each version supports VMXNET3 network adapters :)