Battleman13

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.1.0-15047 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.02b - DS3615xs - Using custom extra.lzma: NO - Installation type: VM - VMWare Workstation 14 Player (Ryzen 7 1700X - MSI X370 SLI PLUS - Win 10 64bit host OS) - Additional comments: (update to 6.1.6-15266 REBOOT REQUIRED ---> update to 6.1.6-15266 Update 1 NO REBOOT REQUIRED)

Are you running two physical machines via bare metal installs? I'm thinking of trying to accomplish an HA setup via two virtual machines, just not sure how the heartbeat connection would work. Ideally, they wouldn't be running on the same physical hardware... defeats the purpose kinda. But probably two different VM's on two different computers. Right now I have one Xpenology set up in a VM on my R7 1700X desktop machine. It's bridged to my local machines network adapter. I'm just trying to wrap my head around establishing a heartbeat connection in a virtual setup like this.

I too am a Xpenology noob... but I am decently familar with real Synology hardware and the OS. The icing on the cake is that I also run a R7 1700X system. I don't know about installing it bare metal, but I was able to easily spin up a virtual machine running the Xpenology software and get it up and going in about 20 min. I used the following youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si9Y1HNhYrI Quite helpful. I used VMWare player, as it is free... but the setup is mostly the same. VMWare player made me set up a "new" disk instead of allowing me to target the synoboot.vmdk file when initially creating the vm but after creation was finished I was able to edit the settings of that VM and remove the original drive, add a "new" drive by pointing to the synoboot.vmdk file and then found out when trying to install the specific version of DSM manually, you'll need to create that second hard disk for the Xpenology VM and attach it. Without a second volume, formatting the virtual disk station will fail when attempting to install DSM. I guess the main point is, if I'm able to do it through a virtual machine running as a guest on my R7 1700X system with Win 10 as the local OS... you should have no issues running it on bare metal. The same youtuber also has videos on installing baremetal.. you may find that video more helpful.