johnqhu

Hi Guys, Today I'm trying to install a vmware Xpenology nas. The vmware server is ESXI 6.7 u3. The motherboard is supermicro x9sri-f-0. There is a 4 ports SCU controller on this board. I passthrough this controller to vm guests. I tried it in window 10 and ubuntu 20. The SCU controller shows in both system and the 4 disks could be used. While in the Xpenology NAS, the DSM installation is successful, except the SCU controller won't show. The load is Tinycore-Redpill, I downloaded the loader from https://github.com/pocopico/tinycore-redpill I followed the instruction of The diskstation is DS3622xs+ and DSM version is 7.1.1. And I think the passthrough to the Xpenology vmware is successful because if I boot to "tinycore image build", and run fdisk -l, I saw the 4 disks. And if I run "satamap", the output shows: Found "02:01.0 Vmware SATA AHCI controller" 30Ports/1 drives. Mapping SATABOOT drive after max disks. Found "02:02.0 Vmware SATA AHCI controller" 30Ports/1 drives. Default 8 virtual ports for typical system compatibility. Found SCSI/HBA" 03:00.0 Intel Corporation C602 chipset 4-Port SATA Storage Control Unit(rev 06)" (4 drives) I did try to play with SataPortMap and DiskIdxMap. But I couldn't get these disks show in DSM. Then I also ssh to the DSM and run lspci, I found a PCI passthrough device without driver. So I'm just wondering. Do I need SCU driver for DSM to get the disks show? I have to install the driver for windows 10 and ubuntu seems support it by default. How about DSM 7.1.1? Does it have the driver? BTW, I also have another two general question regarding use TCRP loader. 1. After modified user_config.json, do I need to rebuild the loader to make it take effect? I rebuilded every time. Just want to confirm it's must. 2. After rebuild the loader, do I need to reinstall DSM to make the changes take effect? I guess it shouldn't need to but I still reset the DSM and reinstall. However no luck to get the disks show. Thanks

It's interesting. I'm also considering do the same thing. I have two synology NASes. DS718+ and DS1618+. Both are good ones. But I still found it's slow when I streaming 4k vidoes. The transcoding seems quite CPU consuming. Then I remember I brother mentioned to me about xpenology several years ago. At that time, I don't have any interests because all I need for synology is just storage. But now, video streaming is what I want. So yesterday, I downloaded Jun's loader and setup a 3617 in my Esxi server. My esxi use Xeon E5-2690 v2 CPU and 128G RAM. I currently config the virtual syno as: 8 core, 8G RAM, 200G Hard Disk(on SSD). I mounted my video files from my 1618+ to the virtual 3617. The transcoding is much faster for 4K video with plex. Now I'm thinking about to get 4 to 5 4T HDDs to my esxi server and RDM to the 3617 and implement a raid 5 system. But I'm not quite sure how good the disk performance will be. My understanding is that it is just software raid and consume CPU a lot. Could you do some measrement?