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Synology plans to release a router with a nice Synology web interface. I don't know about you, but I am really excited. However, I am not sure if I will actually buy that router since I already own too many routers. Hopefully, someone will port that firmware to other routers of the same architecture. I also doubt they will release this GUI as a package for their Synology NAS.

Yep, it will show up as a 10TB harddrive in Windows Server. Remember, you need to create a virtual disk image inside Expenology for the ISCSI, so the disk itself wouldn't even realize that its actually stored on multiple hard drives in SHR mode. You won't be able to access files inside ISCSI image from Expenology itself though. But you can also do almost exactly the same using Samba share. You can even mount it as a letter drive. Of course, you won't be able to format it like the ISCSI disk and some programs might not work correctly with mounted samba share.

Why not connect it to the windows server directly then?

With ISCSI you can probably get a better performance than NFS and Samba. However, its designed to be connected to a single computer at one time.Also, you would have to either create an ISCSI image on your synology or dedicate separate disks for it. If you just want to have access to files, just go with samba. Its not that much slower, to be honest. You'll probably be bottle-necking your ethernet anyways. Unless, of course, you have 10Gb connection.

Don't worry its only visual and only in the webgui. If you run cat /proc/cpuinfo in terminal session, you'll see that its detected correctly.

Doesn't seem to work for me. It just keeps loading infinitely. That chart is specifically for the Synology Video station app that, I think, uses the hardware acceleration on the real Synology devices. However, Plex Media server can transcode most of the content without the hardware acceleration.While I mostly use my Plex for streaming videos from server to pc and tv. Transcoding to my Android phone seems to work fine. The difference between Plex and Video station is that you might get heavy cpu load during transcoding on Plex. If your processor is Atom, then it might choke completely.On the other hand, If its i3-i7,xeon, then it should be fine. After some testing, I came to the conclusion that Plex also supports hardware acceleration for certain video formats.

If you only need Plex then why not use Ubuntu or Debian? I run Plex on 5.2 XPEnoboot inside ESXI. So far it being running smoothly. However, I only watch either on PC or TV, so there is probably not that much transcoding going on. Oh I did have to install SPK from official Plex website, the one from Synology repo is not working properly.

Sancome released those a few months ago. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nr8d24zqchzs ... 1.spk?dl=0 Just download and do manual install in package center in xpenology webgui. I don't remember, but I think without vmware tools you can't do a proper shutdown/restart of Xpenology from vSphere client. ISCSI LUN and ISCSI Target are basically the "sata" over the ethernet. You can attach disk over the lan network it will appear as real harddrive on the target system.

Try installing vmware tools. However, I suspect its the issue with your harddrive where you have datastore. All my virtual machines are stored on SSD harddrives and even Windows 2012 R2 runs smoothly with only 600MB ram allocated for it. You can try creating ISCSI LUN on your xpenology and have vmware connect to it. Store virtual machine there and see how it performs. I am not sure if Synology allows allocating space for LUN image, so you don't lose performance when it expands.

Wrong, it is not legal to run Synology software on hardware that is not from Synology or licensed by Synology. You aren't even allowed to make modifications to system files on your Synology device. Not only that, by agreeing to their EULA you are allowing them to have full access to your device in order to let them evaluate whether you are complying with their EULA. Scary stuff isn't it? While I don't think they will care much about getting direct access to our devices or about us modifying system files(unless for cases when they have to troubleshoot your device). They do care about people running their software on custom servers as it directly interferes with their profit.

This is from MS website Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended) At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended) At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk So, about 256 RAM, 2-3GB disk, 1 cpu should be enough if you only plan to use vSphere client.

Web client only comes with a paid version. You need a dedicated machine for it with ~4GB of ram and you need to install bunch of services. Its designed to manage many ESXI servers from a single web GUI. What you can do is run some older windows as one of your virtual machines and have a vSphere client there. Windows XP should be perfect for this as it doesn't require too much ram and disk space. RDP client is available on many systems. Iirc, Chrome browser has an RDP addon. Yea, you can attach vmdk drivers to different virtual machines, but you need to remove them first from the xpenology or it will complain.

If you create a raid array, it will erase all data on disks that you want to put into array.

It shouldn't show you the "independent-persistent" for a non-virtual disks. Here is how it looks on my screen. 1 Virtual Boot disk, 3 physical disks and 1 virtual system disk. http://s7.postimg.org/dxfzxcmtn/esxi_RDM.png

No, I am saying your 1TB drive probably has bad sectors.If HP released a custom image that means they are supplying additional drivers that are missing in the original installation.

You don't create a datastore(on your HDDs with data) if you want to use your hdd without losing data. You need to create a virtual disk file that would link directly to the harddrive and then you add that virtual disk to the virtual machine. As for the error you probably have bad sectors on your harddrive.

You can either go virtual disk way, or RAW device mapping way. Virtual disk is the slowest and you'll basically need to reformat your harddrives. If you use RDM, you in theory, just connect your harddrive to Xpenology virtual machine and you are pretty much done. ' Esxi requires a complete reformat of all disks at the time of installation.You can, of course, unplug other harddrives to keep the data, but the main one will require a complete reformat. You can use the remaining space on ESXI boot disk for the datastore where you can save virtual machines and virtual harddrives. The free ESXI should be more than enough for your needs. Paid version includes features like SSD as cache for HDD, consolidated management of multiple ESXI servers, etc. If your hardware is fully supported on 6.0 then install that. If its only supported on 5.5 then install that instead. Vmware often removes support for older hardware in their newer versions. You can create dynamically expanding virtual disks, but once the space is used its not released back even if you clean disk inside virtual machine. I think there was a feature that allows sharing virtual disk by multiple virtual machines. If it works the way I think it works, you should be able to use, say, NTFS formatted disk by multiple systems at the same time.

http://xpenology.me/how-to-downgrade-from-dsm-5-2/

На G8 вполне уместно будет поставить систему виртуализации, а уже в ней хренологию. Сервер легко все это потянет, за одно появится возможность использовать ресурсы G8 и под другие задачи. В частности для esxi есть возможность пробросить в виртуалку диски без изменений. Из дополнительных приобретений только память и небольшой ssd диск под datastore. А можно поподробнее, кто как использует возможности виртуализации? А то у меня стоит Хренолоджи на голом металле, и я нерешительно подумываю поигратся с виртуализаторами, но вот не знаю, что оно мне даст и надо ли оно мне вообще... п.с. С виртуализаторами - не знаком, вообще. Сервер - домашний, ничего особенного на нем не крутится, фотостанция, медиасервер, дб-сервер, фтп сервер, веб сервер... Главный плюс виртуализации это простота обновления. Можно делать снапшоты виртуальных дисков перед обновлением и в случае чего откатиться обратно. Есть прямой доступ к консоли на случай если есть проблемы с сетевым подключением к виртуальной машине. На виртуальной машине намного меньше проблем с драйверами. Можно установить вторую виртуальную систему и использовать ресурсы сервера под еще что то.

Are you referring to the index.php file? If so, it does work for me. http://h2404765.stratoserver.net/smart/index.rar