Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on ESXi 6.7

[luchuma]

Download:

1. synoboot vmdk
https://mega.nz/#!fdBWBJYB!P3MbGY2v_X_udUhaSgVBQZ74KNRf7vtjMCO39u1I91Y

 

2. juns loader for DSM 6.2
https://mega.nz/#F!ZlkHQTTb!keje3RK017OjTp3vuWb-Cw

 

3. synology DSM.pat for synology 3615xs
https://www.synology.com
https://archive.synology.com/download/DSM/release/

 

4. open vm tools spk
http://spk.4sag.ru/?fulllist=true

 

5. XPEnology Tool for Windows x64

 

 

PREPARATIONS

unzip synoboot.vmdk from DS3615xs 6.0.2 Jun's Mod V1.01 (synoboot.vmdk works with 3615 and 3617 loaders)

unzip synoboot.img from synoboot_3615

 

mount synoboot.img partition 0 with osf mount

 

 

Make sure to uncheck Read-only drive

 

Go to the mounted drive, Grub folder and edit grub.cfg with notepad++



 

If you want change default SN and mac1 

 

 

comment boot option lines you dont need in esxi

 

#menuentry "DS3615xs 6.2 Baremetal $VERSION" --class os {
#        set img=
#        savedefault
#        loadlinux 3615 usb
#        loadinitrd
#        showtips
#}
#
#menuentry "DS3615xs 6.2 Baremetal $VERSION Reinstall" --class os {
#        set img=
#        loadlinux 3615 usb mfg
#        loadinitrd
#        showtips
#}
#
#menuentry "DS3615xs 6.2 Baremetal AMD $VERSION" --class os {
#        set img=
#        set zImage=bzImage
#        savedefault
#        loadlinux 3615 usb
#        loadinitrd
#        showtips
#}

menuentry "DS3615xs 6.2 VMWare/ESXI $VERSION" --class os {
        set img=
        savedefault
        loadlinux 3615 sata
        loadinitrd
        showtips
}

 

save file, dismount all and exit.

 

ESXi part:

 

Upload synoboot.vmdk and synoboot.img to esxi (in one folder)

 

 

Create new VM

 

 

name the xpenology vm as you want and select Linux and Other 3.x Linux x64

 

 

select your storage and you should see customize settings

 

 

now remove default disk

remove scsi controller

remove cd/dvd drive

and if you are using 3617 loader you need to remove USB controller or change type to USB 3.0

 

 

now set cpu at 2

set memory 2GB

change Network Adapter Type to E1000e

set network adapter 1 mac addres you have in the grub.cfg for example 00:11:32:2C:A7:85

 

 

now add existing hard disk and point to the synoboot.vmdk uploaded before.

Make sure its on SATA 0:0

 

 

now add another sata device

and add vm disks to it (sata 1:0, 1:1 etc)

 

 

and now, the vm is done

 

and finish

 

 

now start your VM and wait to see

 

 

after few minutes open in new tab browser find.synology.com

 

click connect

 

 

accept EULA

 

 

Set UP

 

 

and manual install

 

 

point to DSM 3615xs.pat file downloaded earlier

 

 

after you confirm instalation you should see instalation progress

 

 

after 10 minutes reboot

 

 

enter username, password and server name for dsm

 

 

skip configure quickconnect

 

 

dont share location with synology (find.synology.com will not find virtual dsm)

 

now DSM is ready

 

 

This type of VM should work with dsm 6.2, 6.2.1, 6.2.2 and 3615xs/3617xs loaders

 

DSM 6.2.3 is showing synoboot drive as eSata in dsm

BIG thanks to @flyride and @Balrog for the fix

 

 

 

Quote

 

VMXNET3 working only with  CPU IOMMU disabled (VMware CPU option)

 

Hello all,

 

For everyone that is interested in using 10GB VMXNET3 network adapter - must be in addition to an Intel E1000E because you will not be able to install/update

 

For example, my setup consists of one E1000E - used for normal access of Synology services and 2 VMXNET3 NIC's used for iSCSI/NFS access to my ESXi hosts. I have a 2 port 10GB physical NIC on the ESXi. 

 

You can use perfectly fine VMXNET3, even with DirectPath I/O checked, as long as you DON'T enable CPU IOMMU - this took a while to figure out and I hope this will help someone in a similar scenario

 

Please post this information where is best suited.

 

 

reported by @boghea

 

 

Spoiler

 

Changelog

 

v1. Initial

v2. screenshots in english, added vnic E1000e, added info to remove usb 2 for 3617, minor misspeling corrections

v.3 added info about dsm 6.2.3

 

Edited January 13, 2021 by luchuma
screenshots in english, added vnic E1000e, added info to remove usb 2 for 3617, minor misspeling corrections, broken link fix

[luchuma]

DSM 6.2-23739 Update 2 - works fine

DSM 6.2.1-23824 - DSM_DS3615xs_23824.pat is not working yet so be carefull

[ihtiandr]

First of all I cant mount synoboot.img with osf, It say that no partitions found, I could read it only with poweriso, ok i change mac on virtual machine match it in grub.cfg but I cant find it with find.synology.com or synology assistant, what I could do wrong?

[luchuma]

Vm machine in bios mode?

What hardware do you have?

 

Give some screens of vm and grub.cfg

 

Synoboot vmdk Has to be sata 0.0

 

Maybe files where corrupted while transfer or download.

 

Wysłane z mojego SM-G930F przy użyciu Tapatalka

[luchuma]

On 8/29/2018 at 12:11 PM, luchuma said:

DSM 6.2-23739 Update 2 - works fine

DSM 6.2.1-23824 - DSM_DS3615xs_23824.pat is not working yet so be carefull

 

DSM 6.2.1-23824 - DSM_DS3615xs_23824.pat is working on VM

change vm network settings vm adapter to e1000e (default is vmxnet3)

[Balrog]

 
DSM 6.2.1-23824 - DSM_DS3615xs_23824.pat is working on VM
change vm network settings vm adapter to e1000e (default is vmxnet3)

Nice finding.
i hope there will be some time an update for the vmxnet3 driver as it has much advantages over the pure intel driver.

[JMRR]

Folowed this tuturial to update my installation from dsm 6.1 on ESXi 6.7, and almost everything went well.

The only problem i want to share is that my disks are RDM, and on esxi RDM cannot be maped to sata controler.

Just added scsi controler, add RDM disks to scsi and set in vm bios boot  to sata controler, otherwise dsm wont boot(predefined boot will be scsi).

 

 

[juju78y]

DSM 6.2.1 with ESXI 6.7 Work very well with loader 1.03b, network E1000e & 2 sata controler & Microprogram = Bios (Not EFI)

On a Dell Optiplex 3020 I3-4160 & 8Go Ram

Thanks

[Jbrown7815]

Do you all think I could use this to upgrade my 5.2? Really need 6+ lots of apps are requiring it now.

 

I'm on ESXI 6.7, DSM 5.2

Edited September 17, 2018 by Jbrown7815

[Jbrown7815]

Thank you for the great write up!

[Jbrown7815]

had 6.1.7 working great then like  =a dummy tried to go to 6.2.1...  cant get my raid to mount anywhere

[luchuma]

Downgrade to 6.2
There is warning about 6.2.1.
In 6.2.1 synology changed kernel for pc i and many drivers stopped working.

Wysłane z mojego SM-G930F przy użyciu Tapatalka

[doughnet]

after i install the PAT file it reboots and says that it has to recover and due to the drives have been moved ... i have 2 drives added on SATA 1 under 1:0 & 1:1

[berwhale]

9 minutes ago, doughnet said:

after i install the PAT file it reboots and says that it has to recover and due to the drives have been moved ... i have 2 drives added on SATA 1 under 1:0 & 1:1

 

Your 1st drive, Synoboot.vmdk, should be attached to SATA 0.  If you attach it to SATA 1, DSM will try to wipe it during install.

[doughnet]

11 minutes ago, berwhale said:

 

Your 1st drive, Synoboot.vmdk, should be attached to SATA 0.  If you attach it to SATA 1, DSM will try to wipe it during install.

Thank you.  synoboot.vmdk is attached to SATA 0:0

 

I have 2 seperate drives attached to SATA1:0 & SATA 1:1

[berwhale]

8 hours ago, doughnet said:

Thank you.  synoboot.vmdk is attached to SATA 0:0

 

I have 2 seperate drives attached to SATA1:0 & SATA 1:1

 

What type of drives are attached to SATA 1?   What is the Compatibility and Disk Mode set to?  Does the install work if you just attach one of the drives?

Edited October 7, 2018 by berwhale

[doughnet]

7 hours ago, berwhale said:

 

What type of drives are attached to SATA 1?   What is the Compatibility and Disk Mode set to?  Does the install work if you just attach one of the drives?

 

Thank you again for your help.

 

Both SATA1 drives are setup as:

TYPE: Thick provisioned, lazily zeroed

DISK MODE: DEPENDENT

[berwhale]

45 minutes ago, doughnet said:

 

Thank you again for your help.

 

Both SATA1 drives are setup as:

TYPE: Thick provisioned, lazily zeroed

DISK MODE: DEPENDENT

 

What's the reason to attach 2 drives rather than one bigger one?  Are they on different data stores?

[luchuma]

what loader you use?

what pat file?

what vm type?

 

is it update or fresh install?

 

do you use esxi option from loader?

[evolucja]

Hi, did everything as in the tutorial but the IP is not assigined from DHCP to VM and I can't access it...

MAC is set correctly in grub.cfg and VM settings.

ESXi 6.7.

 

Any ideas?

[luchuma]

Give info from serial

 

Wysłane z mojego SM-G930F przy użyciu Tapatalka

 

 

Give screen of vm

[hpk]

Just a short confirmation, that this tutorial works with ESXI 6.5 as well, incl. a RDM mapped harddisk.
However, I had to set the bootorder in BIOS manually as described in this thread. 

Can't upgrade ESXI to 6.7, DL360p Gen8 supports up to ESXI Release 6.5.0 Update 2 ...

[Georg]

Anybody get this error?

 

I did everything as per above, tried using

DSM_DS3615xs_23648

DSM_DS3615xs_23731

 

Both give the same error.

ESXi 6.7 if that is of importance

 

Edited October 17, 2018 by Georg

[luchuma]

@Georg

Try change loader and pat for 3617

[Georg]

I'm getting so confused with all the different downloads.

Could somebody post links to files needed please.

 

I downloaded:

https://mega.nz/#F!ZlkHQTTb!keje3RK017OjTp3vuWb-Cw

dsm.6.2.synoboot_ds3617xs.1.03b (contains only synoboot.img)

dsm.6.2.synoboot_ds3615xs.1.03b (contains only synoboot.img)

Edited both these files with the SN and a MAC, commented out the Baremetal. Nothing else.

 

 

https://mega.nz/#!fdBWBJYB!P3MbGY2v_X_udUhaSgVBQZ74KNRf7vtjMCO39u1I91Y

DS3615xs 6.0.2 Jun's Mod V1.01 (contains a bunch)

Can't find one for DS3617

 

 

Image files from Synology

https://archive.synology.com/download/DSM/beta/6.2/23648/

DSM_DS3615xs_23648.pat

DSM_DS3617xs_23648.pat

 

I created a new VM, deleted the HDD, the SCSI controller, added a new SATA controller (to have 1:0)

Added the existing synoboot.img to 0:0

Added 2 new HDD to 1:0 and 1:1

Added the MAC as manual

 

vreated the VM. Boot. Found it and tried to install the .pat. No go for either 3615 or 3617.

 

Help 😋