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What is the power consumption on that setup? The HPE Micro with a Xeon E3 16GB ECC ram and 4 WD Red 6 TB Drives draws about 50 Watt. My NUC 11 Core i5 with 64GB ram one m2 1 Tb and a Crucial SATA SSD 2TB plus 2 external 2.5 inch 5TB drives running OMV one VM and around 16 docker containers draws 18 to 20 Watt. Would like to build a power efficient yet power-full rig to run xpenology. Back in the day when I bough the HPE micro gen to replace my DS1512+ I was impressed such a powerfull machine used around the same power as the DS1512+ but now I think I can do better especially looking at what the NUC does.

Ha OK, thnx for the info! What about the Junes loader etc. etc. - Redpill options?

Yep! DSM 7 running on my HPE Micro GEN8. 16GB ECC and XEON power with DSM goodness. Thank you POCOPICO for this great script and image! One question. I had Junes Loader etc. etc. - redpill USB I had Junes Loader etc. etc. - redpill SATA Tiny Core redpill USB Tiny Core redpill SATA I went for Tiny Core redpill USB But where can I find the differences between these options?

Issue seems to be gone, script was updated 2 hours ago and now it seems to build without the space issue.

Yep, had found this out also, forgot to mention. Been at it for hours en always the same result. If you try the last step (build) without reboot it looks like it finishes but it does not create the correct boot entry's etc. so you can only boot into redpill again and start over. With the same results.

My Machine is a HPE Micro server Gen8 with a Xeon E3 and 16GB ecc ram. Cant be a shortage of ram.

Hi Willba4 I noticed you reported this with all the info, thanks for that!

https://github.com/pocopico/tinycore-redpill/issues/38

Maybe something with the latest image.

sadly extending disks etc. does not work. I can see that sd3 has loads of space left. Seems to be /dev/loop52p1 that is full. not sure how to work around this.

Hmm, I am using a 16GB and a 8GB stick but get this error also : !] Failed to copy /home/tc/redpill-load/build/1652617579/rd-patched-ds3615xs_42218.gz to /home/tc/redpill-load/build/1652617579/img-mnt/part-1/rd.gz /usr/local/bin/cp: error writing '/home/tc/redpill-load/build/1652617579/img-mnt/part-1/rd.gz': No space left on device *** Process will exit *** Any clues what I am doing wrong? Used RedPil on ESXi 7.0.2 and that worked fine. Am now trying to get this installed on my HPE Microserver Gen8 but cant get past this issue.

Well, Got it working with SATA Controller passthrough on my HP Microserver GEN10PLUS. Now just wondering if I can safely upgrade to the new releases.

Hi Everybody, been playing with this tutorial just to see if ProxMox is a way to go for Xpenology. Already have Xpenology running on Baremetal and ESXI so wanted to try this. Th back-up is brilliant and works really wel! Thank you for that! I am just wondering, what is the best way to attache storage to the VM? I already have a ZFS pool on the PROXMOX host and I could create a virtual disk, but not sure how the performance and reliability is. In ESXI I got some instability when I created a volume based on 4 vmdk. So I opted to just create a small VMDK and just mount a NFS share from a TruenNAS device. That way I can have the storage available for more then one host. I guess I can host a LXC container with a NFS server on it and share the ZFS with it to create a NFS share which I can mount in the XPENLOGY vm. But it kind of sounds a bit complicated and I am introducing more point of failures. Other option (maybe best one) is sata passthrough, but not sure if I can do that on my Microserver Gen10Plus. Anyway, hoping to hear from you guys!

Hi balrog, this is pretty much what I am trying to accomplish with my setup. But I think need the redundancy of RAID10 most dat ais pretty much backed up on other NAS drives (TRUENAS gets synced each sunday and the important files are synced with my one drive business in almost realtime). Thank you for the how to, I am still in the discovery mode and switching back and forth between PROXMOX and ESXI but in the meantime fiddling with Behive on Truenas and KVM on OMV. Probably will endup going back to ESXI, want to run ESXI from a attached SSD on the USB port and the actual VM's also. Having some trouble making the rest of the SSD where ESXIO runs from (500GB) available to ESXI but found a guide that might work. Th trick and guides which involve stopping the USB arbitrator etc. is not what I am looking, that works and I already played with it. But I just want the USB SSD pin which the ESXI 7 install reside to be available as a DATASTORE. Anyway, installed the E-2236 today and seems to be running fine with the 64GB ram etc. Can I ask why you installed the NOCTUA? What the server running too hot? I have E3-1230V2 running on my 2 GEN8 and never had any issues with high temps with the stock cooling. I have a couple of these lying around and might put them in front of the grill to push some extra air though. https://www.amazon.nl/Infinity-dual-USB-ventilator-UL-gecertificeerd-Playstation-computerbehuizing/dp/B00IJ2J2K0/ref=asc_df_B00IJ2J2K0/?tag=nlshogostdde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=472122620630&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13756350533054949332&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9064941&hvtargid=pla-457643462363&psc=1 One other question, is the e-2236 powerful enough to transcode 2 4K streams with PLEX or will I need to add a P400 and if so do you know if this will use too much power? TDP of th eP400 is 30w. thank you for all you info so far!

Hi Balrog, Yep, I am going to install it tomorrow, the 64GB is already in. I will just run it with 4 HD drives a usb stick and a Seagate one touch attached to the USB3 port like they showed on the STH site. Th only expansion I would love is a Nvidia P400 for Transcoding but don't want to stress the PSU and since this server will run 24/7 I don't want it to draw more than 70W when not handling heavy workloads. My Gen8 Now draws 50W with 2 dimms 4 internal drives, internal usb and external USB drive. My ESXI ML310 Gen8 also the same with 32Gb and 4 10Tb drives some 7200rpm Seagates (noisy bastards compared to my WD reds in the other servers). If you have the notes it would be greatly appreciated!

Hi UXORA-COM, I am still fiddling and trying things out. Am having some trouble starting the LXC but I probably did something wrong and have to go over it again. There are some parts of the tutorial that I might've interpreted wrongly. One question, does the boot loader have to be loaded from a URL? Also, I have to read-up on the virtio 9P driver etc.

Hi balrog, How did you do this: "I have done a passthrough of the whole onboard SATA ahci-controller to the xpenology-vm." Does ESXI see the SATA controller when in AHCI modus? I thought the only way to pass the hardware on the microservers was by adding a raid card like the P222 ( That is the model that comes to mind but might be a different one) or by doing raw device mappings. Are you satisfied with the E-2236 Xeon, no issues so far?

Hi UXORA-COM, This is exactly what I need! I have a working Xpenology (which I am using for years now) on Baremetal (Gen8 16Gb Xeon e3-1230v2) and several test installs on ESXI as a VM pulling content from NFS shares on the other Xpenology and OMV NAS. In the past I have tried virtualising Xpenology on ESXI with VMDK disks but that was not a succes, after a While disks got state unreadable etc. so I stoped with that approach. Also I the good thing about virtualisation is if you want to do a upgrade you can snapshot etc. But wil a lot of data on the system that is not an option. Once the solution with a NFS share etc. Since I am moving to a OMV or TRUENAS installation because of the robust ZFS options etc. with all apps on docker I am kind of leaving Xpenology behind, but I still want to be able to use Synology apps, the DSM GUI and a docker approach is exactly what I want. Ideal it would be even better if we could get it to run in a LXC or Freebsd jail as sharing the ifs volumes with the jail or lxc containers is even better than passing volumes to docker. But I guess that won't work as DSM won't let you share external content as volume1 root volume. It kind of wants to build a raid with BTRFS on actual drives (or virtual ones). Anyway, I am very interested to get this running but am wondering what your advise it. I am thinking of using TRUENAS 12 on my new HPE Micro Gen10 Plus with 64GB ECC ram and 4 10TB drives. I want to run must stuff in a Freebsd JAIL (because of the speed and good sharing of ifs volumes etc.) and other stuff in a UBUNTU or other Docker centric distro where I will run all other apps in. I will export the ZFS volume through NFS and mount it in the UBUNTU (or other distro) VM and pass it to the docker containers. For the Docker XPENOLOGY container I guess I can mount the NFS share directly from the TRUENAS instead of going through the Volume option of Docker. What do you think? Will this work? Oh, almost forgot, all links to the modified boot loader are unavailable, can you help me get one? Kind regards and hank you for your great work!

Hi Balrog, I just bought the exact same setup to replace my bare metal setup on a HPE Microserver Gen8 with a e3-1230v2 and 16GB ram. For the Gen10+ I have installed 64Gb ECC Micron dimes DDR4-3200 EUDIMM (MTA18asf4g72az-3g2b1). How is your setup handling? I have not installed the new Xeon yet (just got it today) is now running with the new memory and the Pentium G54XX that came with it. So before I install the CPU I would love to hear what your experience is. Also, did you pass the HD's through to the xpenology? In the past I had ran some test with VMDK's but got issues with several setups loosing disks. On one of my other servers (Supermicro) I am running ESXI 6.7 with Freenas as a VM with HBA passthrough to freenas and hosting its storage though NFS for the ESXi host on a dedicated internal network bridge. Then I run a xpenology VM and mount the NFS storage in DSM and only use one vmdk as volume1 for local installs. This is not my production xpenology but it works great. The reason why I chose this approach is that if I want to snapshot the VM lets say for testing a new DSM version I don't have to deal with the large amounts of data and even if something goes wrong the most important data will be on a NFS share that can be simultaneous accessed by various systems. Example. I can use a VM running sabnzbd storing it on the NFS share and with plex on synology access the same data etc. (just a example). So Now I am wondering how I should go about it for my next setup. Same way I did on the SuperMicro Or just Pass the disks to xpenology and share some storage via Iscsi or NFS to the ESXI host. Also looking and testing proxmox. Anyhow, would love to hear what you (or other members) think of it

Great Topic!! Should be pinned and there should be one for 6.X also. I also have updated my 5.X install to the latest update on a HP Gen8 without problems. No reboot yet.

Ok since nobody answered i went ahead and did the upgrade. Works fine!

Nobody did this update?

Hi Everybody, I know for sure this question has been asked before but have been searching through the forum and cant find it so I am just going to ask it again. I have been running DSM 5.2-5967 Update 1 for a while now and am quite content with it, down want to move to DSM 6 just yet especially because there is no working Virtual Box package for DSM 6. So for the 5.2 version I am missing one update the DSM 5.2-5967 Update 2, now I am wondering if I can just safely update to this update though the DSM update feature or if I have to look into a new boot loader en go trough safe PAT downloads to safely update it. Has anybody updated to DSM 5.2-5967 Update 2 from DSM 5.2-5967 Update 1 just from the synology gui without having any issues? I know I am not running the latest boot loader but don't want to change that as it is running rock solid, just want to apply DSM 5.2-5967 Update 2 because of the UPNP security issue it covers. Hopefully someone that did this update wants to share his experience here. Regards and thank in advance! Ferno

yes and yes. Don't forget the serial, Id and sata thing in the grub.cfg an the ramdisk copy.

Hum, I can't get it installed on my N40L? The loader gets to booting the kernel but the server doesn't show in Synology assistant and no IP address is being assigned by the router. It seems like the nic isn't supported or something? I used the img linked on page 10 and the ramdisk file from page one EFI img (6688 KB), made the grub config changes but no joy. Which model Gen7 did you get it running on? Hi, On the N40L with 8 GB ram. Running fine, even the upgrade to Update 2 worked. Only issue I have eis the shutdown that hangs sometimes and the improper shutdown error in the log. Did you do the serial and id of the usb stick in the grub.cfg thing? That is important too.