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Schnapps

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  1. Way to go man! I salute you for this choice, and without people like you, XPEnology wouldn't exist as Synology would stop to exist too. When you want the real deal, buy the real deal. This should be the motto for this community, but it appears people like to whine a lot.
  2. I think this would do the trick but I'd personally go with the E3-1230 as it's the perfect fit in all series (v1-v5) between performance and price
  3. You're comparing apples with pineapples. The lenovo server does not have 10G networking and the processors are not even closer to 45W TDP. Remote console (iLO/BMC) is also not included. And this motherboard is actually a mini-ITX, so it will fit a case 2 to 3 times smaller than the lenovo server.
  4. That's an awesome product to be used for virtualization and currently I'm trying to buy 3 of them to lifecycle my homelab but they're quite pricey. I definitively consider this an overkill for XPEnology and don't recommend it unless you're filthy rich or actually use it for more than a NAS VM
  5. Ugh... this waiting for DSM6 is killing me... as no version did
  6. Can you please describe your current setup?
  7. Can you please describe your current setup?
  8. Duuuude, you have a lot of crap. You should delete something )
  9. That would be something Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  10. I have 4x WD RED (WD30EFRX) running 24/7/365 for the past 3 years and they're rock solid!
  11. I was sticking to his config and forgot about pass-through RAID card. Good that you mentioned.
  12. 1. Why go with ESX 5.5 when 6.0 is out and stable? 2. You have two options in regards to how you present the HDDs to ESX RDM - Raw Device Mapping (or passthrough, skipping ESX, and going directly to the VM) VMFS based - where you present the disks to ESX and format them as VMFS and then create a THICK VMDK disk on each Datastore (basically HDD). ATTENTION: THICK and not THIN. I suggest THICK LAZY ZEROED 3. There are advantages and disadvantages for each method of presenting the disks. In case of RDM, DSM can't monitor the HDDs as no SMART data can be passed-through the hypervisor but you can always take your disks and insert them into a real Synology system or even XPENO and will work. In case of VMFS based disks, SMART will work but you can't "transplant" the HDDs to another DSM. In theory, it will be slower due to the fact that data is being passed through another filesystem, but I can you or anybody else in this forum can even measure the difference 4. Take my advice and use 4 HDDs in a SHR1 volume. You will thank me later. If not, when one of the HDDs will break, you will lose all your data. SHR1 with 4 disks will protect you from a disk failure (any one of them). In 3 years of XPENO use, I lost 2 HDDs but not a single bit of data due to it. 5. You can install ESX on an USB stick. Based on VMware's best practices, a 16GB stick would be recommended for the ESX. The stick will be used just at the boot until the OS (ESX) will be loaded in RAM. 6. The SSD is pretty useless if you install ESX on the USB drive, unless you use as a datastore for some additional VMs that you want to be a bit speedy, like a Windows machine that you can connect via RDP 7. If you don't use an USB drive, you could install ESX on the SSD and the remaining free space from the SSD after installing ESX could be use as a datastore for VMs like DSM and Windows or the Xpenoboot boot disk 8. My DSM runs under Hyper-V for 3 years. Hyper-V because on J1900 ESX cannot be installed (or better said, I didn't know how to make it work at that time) Choose wise Young Padawan!
  13. What you have there is overkill but it's your playground. Enjoy! Don't go for Greens. They're slow and they break fast. Go for Reds or Reds mixed with anything else. And DON'T BUY more than 2 HDDs from the same vendor if you want your system to be bulletproof. Same model, same vendor and same acquisition date most of the time mean same manufacturing bug (if there is one), so you'll have a reason to cry after your data if all HDDs break in the same time. ...and this info comes from a guy that's using xpenology for 3 years. I never lost any data since using xpenology, although some disks have failed (Seagate and WD Greens).
  14. I know a place... It's called a shop. Ebay and Amazon might also be helpful. We're trying to keep this forum free of illegal stuff. Support Synology. Topic closed. Thank you for understanding. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  15. Did the upgrade and after reboot I had to force another reboot as it was not working. Since 2nd reboot is working fine. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  16. I have between 40 and 70 but I've seen better like 100-120MBps I guess it has something to so with the cache that I cannot turn on since some time. Hyper-V here Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  17. Welcome to the community Tabocaw! I'd say that indeed, there are not enough words to compare an XPEnology box with FreeNAS or Nas4Free (from the user perspective) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  18. I'm using XPEnology for 2 and a half years and I've had that question for at least 3 or 4 times in my mind. The community is quite strong and it always provided the right expectation (at least for me) Worst case scenario that would happen is to have no bootloader developed for a long period of time, resulting in no security patches being delivered (inside the DSM). This can be tackled with firewall rules and NAT, in a very simple way. So stay close and be an active player in the community
  19. Go to xpenology.me and follow the instructions there. Should be the last one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  20. Try to reinstall it without losing data. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  21. Upgraded. Volume dismounted after 1st start after upgrade. 2nd restart fixed volume. Found some packages in stopped mode and started it. No issues in general. Running a VM under Hyper-V
  22. You don't need hardware raid with DSM. DSM creates and manages it's own software array. Having two arrays, is just wrong. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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