Clutzz

Cheers Digital! For someone like me that's new to Xpenology and ESXi, this is a great tutorial - appreciate the time and effort you put into coming up with this. Thought I'd share my experience with this install. DS3615xs Files: Instead of the DS3617xs files, I used the DS3615xs set from the above. I haven't experienced any problems (well at least not that I can attribute to the loader). HDDs Not Visible: Using Raw Device Mapping (RDM), I mapped 5 SATA HDDs to Xpenology. On my first Xpenology installation attempt, Xpenology only saw 5 HDDs: 2 were the disks created as part of the tutorial, and a further 3 related to the RDM drives. This meant 2 RDM drives were missing. So within grub.cfg, I changed sata_pcislot=8 (was =5, and I'm guessing I could have got away with =7), rebooted, and Xpenology was then able to see all 5 SATA HDDs via RDM. I haven't needed to touch SataPortMap. Not sure if this was the correct way to resolve my issue but seems to have worked. MAC Address: I inserted the actual MAC address of my NIC into grub.cfg instead of the MAC address reported under VM - Edit Settings (they were different). Haven't had any issues. Boot Menu: I've tried using both the Bare Metal install option (which is what I think is used if you follow the tutorial above) and the ESXi install option. I don't know what the difference is between them but to my untrained eye they seem the same. So all good you think, but I do have an issue.... When I attempt to Shutdown Xpenology (from within Xpenology), it doesn't Shutdown. After looking at the console it appears Xpenology maybe Restarting as I can see the Boot menu pop up again, and then presumably continue to load once the menu timer runs out. I suspect this is where my blissful ignorance is biting me in the backside. Should I be seeing the boot menu again? Is there a simple fix? Appreciate any help. Thanks Clutzz