JSLIM

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Hi All, Slightly lengthy post, please pardon me and thank you in advance for reading. I had installed DSM6.2.1 with Synology 918+ successfully on VMWare Workstation. Actual Synology 918+ is able to plug in 02 x M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs (Cache) and 04 x SATA (Storage) My current setup 02 x 2TB SATA is presented to the VM as Physical Disk. Physical Setup: ------------------ |--SATA00-OS---| = Slot 1 |--BLANK--------| = Slot 2 |--SATA02-2TB--| = Slot 3 |--SATA03-2TB--| = Slot 4 ------------------ However in my XPEnology it is shown as below: Disk1 - 50MB - SynBoot (Understandable as it is mounted as a SATA presented to the VM) Disk2 - Empty Disk3 - Empty Disk4 - Empty Disk5 - 2TB Disk6 - 2TB Disk7 - Empty Disk8 - Empty Synology Storage Manager: I have two question: 01 - Any other way not to show Disk1 other than using a physical USB Thumbdrive. 02 - I am planning install and plug in 01 x M2 NVME for my OS thus freeing up Slot 1, then add in 02 x 2TB new hdd, so where will my new 02 x 2TB reflect in XPEnology? 03 - Synology 918+ is a 4 Bay NAS, why is it showing 13 Disks? Thanks. Regards JS