I ended up going the vmware server route and it worked very well. The guides here were great and I ran into almost no problems. I did bring the DSM VM up initially without my drives attached to make sure it was up and working. Powered everything off and attached my drives, created the RDM mappings for them in vmware and attached to the VM. Initially i brought it up and it saw no drives then i figured out they needed to be on a second SATA controller in the VM and everything went great from there (my situation was different than the guides so i diverted a little, only had to read a bit further to find the second SATA controller clue). It offered to import them and my config, it rebooted and came up with the old static IP i had on the old NAS. Much to my delight the iSCSI LUNS were still shared. Connected to the LUNS on another PC and copied the data out. I'm glad Xpenology is around because i had no other options to get at that iSCSI data. Even opend a ticket with Synology and they said it's hard to get at and pointed me toward data recovery options. I did find a windows program that could scan the iSCSI files but it was seeing the file headers or something and none of the files had real names. just random numbers. I really didn't want to sift through 3TB of files renaming things... Thanks again!