A big thanks to jadehawk for this topic, it was really helpful. I'm trying to move my Xpenology from bare-bones Microserver Gen8 to ESXi but without much luck.
I am able to get VM to boot and am able to reach it via the web browser. I can then install DSM on a virtual disk. So far so good.
However, what I really want is to RDM to my existing disks, as in the video. However, even though a disk can be seen by DSM, it is "Not initialized". It seems not to be recognized by the OS as already having synology partitions.
This disk is one of an array of 2 (RAID 1 array). I tried it like this, because if something goes wrong, I still always have the bare-bones installation on the other disk of the array and I can just re-sync them, no harm done. Might this be a reason why it isn't working?
I though I would be able to just RDM this 1 disk and DSM should be able to start from it directly, without needing to install anything first, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I'm using ESXi 6.7 and Jun loader 1.02b (with DSM 6.1.7-15284 Update 3 on DS3615xs).
This is on a Microserver Gen8 and using the B120i RAID controller (i.e. not set to AHCI mode).
Can anybody point me in the right direction what I might be doing wrong? Any help is much appreciated!