Finally got a 3617 (broadwell) running prod on Vmware esxi 7 using multiple vlans, hyperb,synodrive, dns, vpn, smb
Lessons learned and experience.
Disk write issues -> Needed to convert the vmdk with v2v in order to make it sata writable (without convert only readable via IDE interface esxi config could not be written strange errors and disk failure when installing dsm.)
After disks reassignment in esxi and assignment in synology had to “repair” them, which went very fast and without issues.
SMB issues -> users got access denied on smb shares. Synology added the SMB service as an application for access. The group users didn’t had default access on SMB. (my other synology boxes updated via control panel to dms7 did give default user group access to SMB) this issues costed
Config restore issues – Couldn’t get my packages back, had to redownload on dsm7, but import setting successful, network interfaces on different numbers but in esxi in the same order. Restore config didn’t restore all settings, Just check all your settings!
Synodrive had to upload all files to my other synology devices like they had been changed after the migration but done with success.
So, running for a couple of days stable …. thanks pocopico ! for creating such an easy working loader. Never got the redpill from thor working because of issues and time.
