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Well apparently now I can add/remove drives if I use SATA drives during a live VM session, so that is good. The system just will not see SCSI drives other than the first one. I still have the problem that the VM resets if rebooted. I will keep looking into it and post back.

Hi WhileDekker, Great tutorial. I followed it and can very easily spin up a XPE VM in VMWare Workstation 15. All is good except 2 problems 1. XPE will not recognize more than the SATA boot drive and 1 other SCSI disk. No matter what other port I choose for the SCSI disks, they are not visible in XPE. I think I recreated this VM about 20 times trying different configurations. I tried adding up to 12 drives in the initial creation of the VM, no luck. I tried with just the boot drive and adding data drives one by one, and all at once, after booting XPE, no luck. No matter what I do, it will only see one data drive. Other than that, I can create a volume and pool with that single drive, share it to my home network, and add packages with no problems. 2. XPE will reset whenever I reboot the VM. It boots right up, but goes to the initial menu of setting up a new Synology, including reinstalling DSM. All settings, drives are gone. I checked and the VM sees the boot drive as persistent, and the data drive is also listed as persistent. I can create and revert to a snapshot no problem, but weird that I cannot reboot the VM. Have you experienced any of these issues? If not, perhaps I should create a new topic and see if the other members can shed some light. Thanks again for the simple tutorial.