Gulivert

Hello everyone ! I'm an mechanical engineer. I have basic knowledge of IT/coding. I'm new to the Xpenology/Synology experience ! I really enjoy the learning experience and the DIY side of the Xpenology. The reason why I started this is because I found TrueNAS hard to set the way I wanted. English isn't my mother tongue, I'm trying my best to be readable I own a laptop ASUS ROG for gaming, an old DELL R720 rack server for VMs and testing, an old HP G1 Tower with a current "NAS" that is just 3 drives shared over smb and a plex server on top. I just bought some stuff to start my xpenology journey : MotherBoard ASUS P8C WS Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 V2 @ 3.40GHz 16Gb RAM DDR3 LSI-SAS9300-16i IT mode 5x2Tb WD enterprise 1x6Tb WD RED Fractal Define R5 (it's a really silent case) So far I have tested on my ESXi (R720) the Tinycore-Redpill (DS2422+) from @Peter Suh entirely on a VM with vdisks, remote access over my domain, email alerts, 2FA for users, Drive, Photo, PLEX, Tailscale and Docker. (https://github.com/PeterSuh-Q3/tinycore-redpill) I am starting to build the NAS like this : ESXi 7u3 DSM with passtrough both SAS (9300-16i have 2 chips so 2 SAS to passtrough ?!) and front case USB passtrough Install of ESXi is pretty straight forward as I already done it for the R720. Starting and installing DSM with TCRP works (but I don't have the sames options as I had on the R720, maybe it's the passtrough) Setting the disks is my task now and I'm kinda stuck. I managed to make it work with fisrt disk starting at position 1 in the DSM GUI. but 2 days ago 1 disk failed (only in DSM, It works otherwise) then I unplugged the wrong drive because disk4 wasn't my 4th drive anymore. My setup was : SataPortMap=088 DiskIdxMap=0C0008 I started again from scratch. I now have a working ESXi 7u3 and a bootable TCRP. See you around