jadie
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I could do that as well, but will it show all the drives as a single 10TB drive letter that way as well? I want to be able to point the server folders to a single drive letter so they can be shared out through the network like I currently have.
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.
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After looking some more, I think I can do what I want by connecting the ISCSI directly to ESXI. I can then create one large 10TB datastore to use in the Server 2012 VM. It looks like ESXI 5.5 supports guest virtual disks up to 62TB.
Why not connect it to the windows server directly then?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I installed win XP, but could not connect using the vSphere client; here is a link with the fix, even for the 32 bit version of xp (vi editor involved)
http://www.bloggerbaru.com/how-to-fix-c ... re-5-15-5/
Now it is working, but omg how slow is xp...
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.
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legality is likely not an issue, but please realize that this product is something Synology actively works on stopping. Its available despite their efforts, not because of it
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.
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Thanks again, for the explanation and advice. I understand now why I couldn't find the web client.
I just started to do that but with a win7.
What is enough for a xp install ?
2 CPU, 1 GB ram and 20 GB drive will be OK?
For now I leave the vmdk only in xpenology, as I am able to access them using network share.
So many new stuff to play with, my brain is boiling
And my back is killing me lol
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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.
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All is working OK for now. Xpenology appears to be slower than bare metal install, but it was doing a lot at the time and my setup is not the best, I'm sure of that.
I can't get the web client to manage some stuff, searched and downloaded images from VMware but no luck. Where to get the web client ?
How can I connect with to esxi from everywhere? I want to be able to manage VM's, create edit and delete them from everywhere.
As for connecting to each VM I guess I have to rdp or vnc on them.
Is it OK to attach the same vmdk drives that I use on xpeno to other VM's ? (Windows, Ubuntu)
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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.
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It look's like mine.
I'll make another try tomorrow, it appears that I have to create some array in the HP bios first.
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If you create a raid array, it will erase all data on disks that you want to put into array.
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"Failed to start the virtual machine.
Module Disk power on failed.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/53911b54-c75db90a-af5b-d0bf9c464d28/RDM/st1tb.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Failed to lock the file"
I did the same thing for both drives, added both the exact same way, if I remove st1tb and keep only the other one the xpeno starts.
"independent-persistent" checked for both
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I got the vm started with both drives after an esxi reboot; however, the xpenology requested me to perform a repair on the drives, I hesitated and searched the web for a few minutes (do not want to mess anything on them for now) and suddenly the drives disappear , with message to check network connection... strange
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.
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Thank you, I'll try that.
However, I doubt that all 3 of my drives are corrupted; using two of them with no issues right now.
I think using a custom hp 6.0 image was not the best choice. I'll play around with it some more, maybe I figure out where I was wrong...
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.
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I got an error trying to install on the 1Tb drive, now instaling custom hp esxi 6.0 on 4 Gb usb stick. I'll see if I can finish up with a xpeno vm on that drive.
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unable to create a datastore on that drive; might be broken, or do I have to set up some things in bios ? I remember choosing ahci before installing xpenology via xpenoboot.
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This time worked, on the same drive that gave error before. I have xpeno 5.2 running. Now I have to figure out how to create a datastore from the other two hdd without losing the data.
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.
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Hi
I have the Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1220L V2 @ 2.30GHz with 8 Gb ram for about 10 days; running latest xpenology (boot from usb -xpenoboot).
I think the hardware is a bit overkill to do just that, and I want to go the esxi way. Also the virtual box in xpeno is a joke, gives very poor performance (monster mouse lag).
- Is there a way not to lose the data on the hard drives when moving to esxi ? I have 2 hd-drives, no raid involved.
- If running 3 machines (xpenologi, windows and some linux distro) can I use the same storage for all ? I mean give 20 Gb to each machine but all of them to share the rest of hdd space for storage.
- What version to use ? I see 5.5 and 6.0, both with custom images on the hp website
- I also do not want to go the "trial" way, is free licence enough to manage a few machines with no major hassle ? I'm not clear about the limitations of the free version.
PS: my gen8 is not silent at all, fan at 15% most of the time but it has an annoying coil noise; this is my second unit, returned the first one for this reason, no luck...
Edit: As I keep reading tutorials, I see that most recommend using another drive (ssd if possible) for storing virtual machines; I only have 2 drives, is it possible to use only a partition from one of them for machines and leave the rest for storage ?
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.
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Фак(с)! С дури обновил nas на работе жены, iscsi умер...!
Слов нет - сам дурак!
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Решил приобрести G8
Сейчас G7
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.
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Are you referring to the index.php file? If so, it does work for me.
Synology Router RT1900ac
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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.