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    Trial of Nanoboot (4493) - 5.0.3.1

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    Hello all,

    I recently updated from gnoboot to latest nanoboot with DSM 4493 but I noticed a decrease of my network speed.

    Before update a copy from my HP N40L was 120MBs approx and now 70-75MBs :sad:

    Any idea ?

    It's not critical but annoying.

    Thanks guys.

    I was running 4.2 and noticed 5.0 to be a little bit faster. Overall, however, my network copy speeds SUCK on ESXi 5.1U1. I know it's EXSi but can't figure out how to fix it. I'd love to get 70+ MB/s. My hunch is ESXi's implementation of the network drivers for my MB are really bad. It's one of those Haswell Intel chips (can't remember which one). Although that doesn't explain why VM to VM transfers are so SLOW. :sad:

     

    Below are my avg. transfer rates when moving a 1GB file.

    Win 7 VM to Xpenology VM - 13MB/s

    Win 8 VM to Xpenology VM - 14MB/s

    Xpenology VM to Win 7 VM - 30MB/s

    Xpenology VM to Win 8 VM - 32MB/s

    Win 7 VM to Win 8 VM - 25MB/s

    Win 8 VM to Win 7 VM - 40MB/s

    Win 7 VM to Server 2003 VM (Windows Home Server) - 28MB/s

    Win 8 VM to WHS - 29MB/s

     

    Compared to my old setup of physical servers:

    Win 7 to WHS - 80MB/s

    WHS to Win 7 - 85MB/s

    [SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    I'm still running 4.2-3202 on ESXi 5.1U2 and it seems like my Synology VM utilizes all my CPU, even when idle. Has anyone else seen this? I'm using RDM for my drives, and really haven't installed anything else. Is there a way to see what's running currently and what's taking up the CPU?

     

    EDIT: Let me clarify - the CPU usage is high in the VMWare Console, but when I log into the Synology itself, CPU is low and it doesn't appear that anything is running. Something has to be, perhaps something that's not tracked by the internal monitors.

     

    You might have been hacked.

     

    Update to a higher version

    I didn't think 4.2-3202 was susceptible to the hack that plagued 4.3? I can't upgrade at the moment so is there a way to find out what's running and shut it down?

    [SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    I'm still running 4.2-3202 on ESXi 5.1U2 and it seems like my Synology VM utilizes all my CPU, even when idle. Has anyone else seen this? I'm using RDM for my drives, and really haven't installed anything else. Is there a way to see what's running currently and what's taking up the CPU?

     

    EDIT: Let me clarify - the CPU usage is high in the VMWare Console, but when I log into the Synology itself, CPU is low and it doesn't appear that anything is running. Something has to be, perhaps something that's not tracked by the internal monitors.

    XPEnology DS3612xs DSM 4.3 build 3827 (ESXi v1.2)

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    is it possible to convert a regular n54l xpenology 4.3 build into an ESXi build without losing data on the data drives?

     

    I currently have 4 drives: 2x3gig, 2x2gig in a SHR array. How would I go about changing converting to an ESXi build?

    I don't think there's a way to convert it easily. The new system would want to format and create a new volume on the drives, once mounted. If you have an external drive, you could back everything up to it, create the ESXi build, mount the old drives, and then restore the data.

    [SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    I am using ESXi5.0 U3 now. But i've used ESXi5.1U1 as well. I can't seems to figure out a way to add a USB device to the Xpenology VM while it's running. Everytime I want to assign a external USB hard drive to the Xpenology VM, I have to shutdown Xpenology first. Does anyone know a way to add USB device without shutting down the VM? Windows XP and Windows 7 VM supports this feature.

    I'm using 5.1 U1 and have no problems plugging in a USB drive. Once plugged into ESXi, you have to add it to the Synology VM. You should be able to do this while it's running. I've had success with both WD and Seagate units

    [SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

     

    Thank you

    So I will have to use a 'normal', and not so flexible, install : 1 native OS (with xbmc installed) that hosts a VM for XPenology ...

     

    Do you have some advice about Native OS (Linux, Win8.1, WHS2011 ?) and VM technology (Virtual Box, Hyper-V, Workstation, ?) to use in order to get 'honorable' disk performances ?

     

     

    Thank you for all your answers

     

    ldha

    I think you will be very disappointed with the performance of of XBMC and any virtual environment if you use the N54L. But, if that's all you have, then I would recommend Win8.1 and Virtualbox. If you have Linux skills, I'd go with Ubuntu.

    [SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    I would like to install 2 esxi vm on a n54l

    - 1st with xpenology (to store)

    - 2nd with xbmc (or eq) to render 1080pvideo+audio through the hdmi output (specific, can be fully dedicated, graphic card asus 6450 or other)

     

    It seems (as I understood as a newbie) that this kind of solution requires wmdirectpath i/o and is not compatible with n54l... I hope I'm wrong :sad:

     

    XBMC requires a physical video card to work properly and so you would need vmdirectpath i/o for this to work. The n54l does not support that. (The MB nor CPU) There are several folks that have done what you want to do successfully on other hardware, but then you would need to buy a new CPU and MB. Search the VMWare forums - there's a lengthy thread on ATI cards and passthrough.

    [SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    I know there was some discussion in the first few pages about getting IPKG installed with open-vm-tools. I was wondering if anybody has been able to get it to work and enable esxi to gracefully shutdown thier Xpenology in case of a power failure.

     

    I am putting together an ESXI server for myself and I think I have figured out what I want to do.

    -Cyberpower UPS set up with Business Edition (run by CentOS) to send shutdown command to ESXI

    -ESXI then gracefully shuts down all the VMs.

     

    The last piece of the puzzle for me to figure out is installing VM tools (or possibly open vm-tools) on the Xpenology. Last I have seen didi was working on getting open vm-tools working and said there was some work to be done. Is there an update on getting it working?

     

    I appreciate all the work many of you have put into this project to make it a reality.

    I did this exact thing, but when I installed the vmtools, the system crashed and it ended up marking the volume as "Crashed" within Synology. I had to backup my data through a SSH session and start over. Instead what I did was create a script on the Cyberpower VM that SSH's to the Synology VM, shuts it down and then SSH's to the ESXi instance and shuts it down. The script works well, but even though it looks like I'm getting a clean shutdown, I still get a "Crashed" volume. Even if I do a clean shutdown from the GUI, my volume gets marked as "Crashed." Fortunately this time, the volume goes back to "Normal" after a couple reboots, but all my folders and settings are gone. Thankfully I've backed up the configuration and just o a restore.

     

    I had actually visited the forum today to ask this very question - does anyone else get a "Crashed" volume when they shut down their VM?

    [SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I'm trying to install on esxi 5.1 U1. I followed the idiots guide and made an RDM to my 2TB disk which was installed in my old ds212+.

    The VM boots and I find the DS in Synology assistant. When I try to install the DSM using the .pat file, the installation shows an error. It says I should forward the telnet port 23 on my router. I'm directly connected from my pc to my esxi server with LAN, no router in between. Tried stopping the firewall service and antivirus services but no luck..

     

    Does someone has an idea how to solve this?

     

    Grtz,

    Kenny

    Same issue here. Works great under 3202, but when I try with the 3211 .pat file I get prompted to forward port 23. BTW - I've tried that too but same result. Guess I'll go back to using 3202 for now.

     

    I had this problem as well initially. I configure the VMFS disk to be type IDE instead of SCSI and it works for me.

    I've got the "boot" disk set to IDE and my RDM drive set as Paravirtual SCSI so perhaps that the issue. I'll try it with a IDE vmfs file and see what happens. I wonder if that's enough to get it loaded and have the ability to add RDMs.

     

    I also noticed on the 3202 instance that items downloaded from the Package Store seem to be hit or miss on living through a reboot. I downloaded 3 packages and only 1 of them was visible, even though it said the other 2 were installed. Seems that if I launch the package before the reboot, they stay visible.

     

    One more thing - a question for those who tried the open-vm-tools - how do you know if you were successful? I followed the instructions and the modules were listed as "success" but it still looks like they're not running to the vSphere Client.

    [SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I'm trying to install on esxi 5.1 U1. I followed the idiots guide and made an RDM to my 2TB disk which was installed in my old ds212+.

    The VM boots and I find the DS in Synology assistant. When I try to install the DSM using the .pat file, the installation shows an error. It says I should forward the telnet port 23 on my router. I'm directly connected from my pc to my esxi server with LAN, no router in between. Tried stopping the firewall service and antivirus services but no luck..

     

    Does someone has an idea how to solve this?

     

    Grtz,

    Kenny

    Same issue here. Works great under 3202, but when I try with the 3211 .pat file I get prompted to forward port 23. BTW - I've tried that too but same result. Guess I'll go back to using 3202 for now.
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