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Hi All, First time posting. But long term user of DSM on Synology hardware - don't shoot me! So, I have a synology HA cluster of (obvs) two Synology NAS' and following a recent false diagnosis of yet another hardware failure (by Synology support) of the failure of the mainboard on one of my NAS's I am wanting to build my own higher spec ones from commodity PC parts so that I am in control of the hardware quality and maintenance if a part fails without having to replace the while blasted thing. To which end I have just spun up two 3617xs's with identical virtual hardware on ESXi 6.7 having followed all the instructions etc with grub.cfg and the boot loader. DSM: 6.2.2-24922 u6 Synoboot.img : ds3617_6.2 DS3615.vmx : DS3615xs 6.0.2 Jun's Mod V1.01 Being new to this I am unsure if there is any other missing info....apologies. All functioning fine until I try and setup HA. It gets right to the end of the process (passes all the tests / checks etc) at which point (as far as I can tell) It sends the config to the passive node and asks it to reboot - at which point it waits and waits and waits for node 2 to reboot but it does not! I have tried a VM reset but that cuts the power and powers it on a-fresh which seems to break the chain of whatever is going on - presumably there is some config held somewhere which is lost....the screen does say not to power off! Lol - I was desperate. I didn't know if there was a trick to getting the DSM to be able to reboot itself (which seems to work fine if I do it from the GUI myself or indeed from the SSH console) in order that I can then complete the HA Cluster setup. I should add that the reason I am doing this is just some testing prior to buying the hardware and setting it all up on physical kit. so if anyones experience would suggest that this is a nuance of virtual DSM then I am pretty happy to explain it away as that and keep my fingers crossed for the real deal in the physical world. Finally, slightly off topic, but if I have an (well two!) 8 disk array(s) on my "real" Synology DSM nodes and literally pull the disks and plug them in to my new home-brew xpenology, as long as I can ensure that the disks keep the same order (presumably) on the Raid controller.... should I be reasonably confident that my data will just remain intact in my data volume and perhaps just the system volume (which DSM is on) will need a reinstall / overwrite with xpenology? or is the reality not that simple.... thanks all! Mark.