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    Two issues with on Esxi 6.7, power on and VM disk

    in DSM 6.x

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    Hi,

     

    I have some minor issues i hope to get some help on being fixed.
     

    I'm running ESXI 6.7 with DSM 6.2.3-25426 U2 (bootloader 1.04b, DS918+), with a sata controller passed through to DSM to handle the disks.

    There are 5disks running in a SHR volume, and another disk for a second volume with no raid etc.



    1. DSM always needs to be recovered, when being powered on. If it's rebooted, it boots into DSM directly as its supposed to.
    The recovery is always fine, but rather annoying it needs to be recovered if i powered off the VM host or did some minor changes.

    I noticed that when rebooting, the bootloader acknowledges my 10sec timeout during boot - but it's more like 1 second when being powered on from off state.

     

    2. DSM Storage manager sees the synoboot.vmdk 5mb file as drive 1.

    One solution i read is to change the controller location, to lets say disk 20. But that results the DSM to go into recovery state upon boot, and keeps failing when trying to do so.

     

    Does anyone know a "fix" for these issues on this booatloader and setup?

    Thanks in advance.

     

     

    Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on ESXi 6.7

    in Tutorials and Guides

    Posted

    wdawd

    12 hours ago, srialmaster said:

    Well, this is no good. Even with the DS3617xs, it still won't allow the synology hybrid RAID even though their website states that this model supports it.....

     

    ----edit----

    I am wrong. This model doesn't support SHR.

     

    https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/Storage/Which_models_have_limited_support_for_Synology_Hybrid_RAID_SHR

     

    It is possible, however you need to re-enable it in a config through terminal (SSH/telnet).

    https://xpenology.club/enable-shr-in-dsm-6/

    DSM 6.2 Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    1 hour ago, flyride said:

    This is what I did in a similar situation:

    set sata_args='SataPortMap=1 DiskIdxMap=0C00'

     

    Also see this: https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/7613-disablehide-50mb-vmware-virtual-disk/

     

    Thanks for that! it pointed me in the right direction atleast - i got around it by setting the vm disk as sata 0:20.

     

    Does DiskIdxMap also work with 1.04b? When reading the post it indicates that it's already written in the grub file as hex 0C. Mine however didn't contain anything related to DiskIdxMap.

    Atleast now works, and VMXNet3 flawlesssly too 🙂 (Reason i moved to DS918 loader from 3617)

     

    Thanks again

     

     

     

    Exceeding 1gbit transfer speed between VM's?

    in DSM 6.x

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    How are your guys network setup for your Xpenology to your other VM's or even your esxi host?

    I've been using esxi's E1000e since VMXNET 3 doesen't work on 6.2.2, but i sure miss faster filetransfers than 1gbit.

     

    In my search to be able to transfer files faster than 112MB/s to a windows VM i'm primarily using, i tried passing through a 10gbit NIC (Intel X550) and it was detected by xpenology just fine at first boot.

    I passed another 10gbit NIC to my Windows server VM and was able to transfer files with ~4gbit between the two VM's.

     

    This setup however requires me linking a networkcable from one NIC directly to the other since i don't have any 10g switch.

     

    Windows VM: 1x 1gbit Intel i350 NIC passed trough for internet/LAN network. 1x 10gbit NIC passed through - networkcable connected directly to Xpenology VM assigned 10gbit NIC.

    Xpenology VM: 1x esxi E1000e for general internet/LAN network. 1x 10gbit NIC passed trough connected directly to Windows VM's assigned 10gbit NIC.

     

    Are there any other solutions than the above (Besides buying a 10g switch) ?

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