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Tutorial: Install DSM 6.2 on ESXi 6.7


luchuma

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Hi All

 

I have followed the steps and was able to create 2 VM's with DSM on them successfully.

 

now my plan is to create a High Availaibility between these two devices using High Availability Ad-on. so i have installed the high Availability Add-on on both these devices but when trying to create a cluster am getting an error mesg 

 

as per below

 

"Unable to to Establish the cluster connection. This may happen because the cluster connection is not connected via a switch"

 

My Ste up is as follows

 

2 nic's on both vms

assigned static IP's n the same Vlan with the same Subnet mask

 

 

Any idea what could be the issue here?

 

thank you

 

 

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Hi All

 

I have followed the steps and was able to create 2 VM's with DSM on them successfully.

 

now my plan is to create a High Availaibility between these two devices using High Availability Ad-on. so i have installed the high Availability Add-on on both these devices but when trying to create a cluster am getting an error mesg 

 

as per below

 

"Unable to to Establish the cluster connection. This may happen because the cluster connection is not connected via a switch"

 

My Ste up is as follows

 

2 nic's on both vms

assigned static IP's n the same Vlan with the same Subnet mask

 

 

Any idea what could be the issue here?

 

thank you

 

 

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ok i was able to create the cluster successfully. But after creating the cluster, nic 2  that is used for Heart Beat configuration is completely wiped off  so in HA management windows, it's reporting the device as offline.

 

Any idea what might be causing the issue?

 

Note: Nic 2 (HA heartbeat) is on static IP.

 

Thank you

 

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Hi, long time synology user, first time xpenology user.

I've just bought a gen8 hp microserver to install xpenology with a xeon processor and 16GB ram, an SSD installed in the optical bay, and 4 X 1TB HDD (that I am hoping to upgrade to 4X12 TB). I boot esxi from a USB stick.

 

I initially tried installing the DS3617XSv1 XPenology_v5.ova that I found earlier in this thread, but but I get a message that no Hard disk is found on the DS3617xs

 

I am now followed the instructions at the beginning of the thread and creating one from scratch.

 

1. For the first ready to go image the serial ports give me errors while editing the VM; Do I need those?

2. Any ideas on how to fix?

 

Additional questions:

a. What is the latest DSM version that's supported? 

b. Do I need an intel nic?

c. Any issues with installing 4X12TB drives?

 

Thanks!

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Update:

 

So I finished the complete install on esxi 6.7u3 based on this tutorial of DS3617XS  synoboot.img 1.03b and the VMDK 6.0.2 Jun's Mod V1.0 initially with 6.2 then I did a snapshot and upgraded to 6.2.2

 

I have this installed on an HP micro server Gen8 upgraded to a Xeon E3-1265L V2.

 

Even though I don't have intel nics on the HP but via esxi everything seems to working fine.

 

1. Is there anything I should be upgrading to maintain stability? Do we need 1.04? I read somewhere that 3615 is more stable than 3617- is this true? Should I reinstall?

2. Let's say in the future I upgrade to 6.3 and it fails- Do I risk any data loss? i.e. Would performing a rollback on the snapshot be sufficient?

 

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hi, i need some help

 

i have pulled my harddisks from a hardware 2bay synology and set up a ESXI xpenology.

 

followed all instructions and it shows me up "look like you move from a older synology to a ds3615xs" ...

 

so i choose migrate and timer runs.. wait 10 minute....

 

after 10 minutes nothing happens.. with find.synology.com nor the assistant my vm sysnology is found after the migration...

 

so i activated serial and post this now:

[H[J[1;1H[?25l[m[H[J[1;1H[2;20HGNU GRUB  version 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.14
[m[4;2H+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+[5;2H|[5;79H|[6;2H|[6;79H|[7;2H|[7;79H|[8;2H|[8;79H|[9;2H|[9;79H|[10;2H|[10;79H|[11;2H|[11;79H|[12;2H|[12;79H|[13;2H|[13;79H|[14;2H|[14;79H|[15;2H|[15;79H|[16;2H|[16;79H|[17;2H+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+[m[18;2H[19;2H[m     Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.          
      Press enter to boot the selected OS, `e' to edit the commands       
      before booting or `c' for a command-line.                           [5;80H [7m[5;3H*DS3615xs 6.2 VMWare/ESXI with Jun's Mod v1.03b                             [m[5;78H[m[m[6;3H                                                                            [m[6;78H[m[m[7;3H                                                                            [m[7;78H[m[m[8;3H                                                                            [m[8;78H[m[m[9;3H                                                                            [m[9;78H[m[m[10;3H                                                                            [m[10;78H[m[m[11;3H                                                                            [m[11;78H[m[m[12;3H                                                                            [m[12;78H[m[m[13;3H                                                                            [m[13;78H[m[m[14;3H                                                                            [m[14;78H[m[m[15;3H                                                                            [m[15;78H[m[m[16;3H                                                                            [m[16;78H[m[16;80H [5;78H[22;1H   The highlighted entry will be executed automatically in 1s.                 [5;78H[22;1H   The highlighted entry will be executed automatically in 0s.                 [5;78H[?25h[H[J[1;1H[H[J[1;1H[H[J[1;1H[H[J[1;1Hpatching file etc/rc
Hunk #1 succeeded at 182 (offset 11 lines).
patching file etc/synoinfo.conf
Hunk #1 FAILED at 291.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file etc/synoinfo.conf.rej
patching file linuxrc.syno
Hunk #1 succeeded at 40 with fuzz 2 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 141 (offset 6 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 579 (offset 28 lines).
patching file usr/sbin/init.post
cat: can't open '/etc/synoinfo_override.conf': No such file or directory
START /linuxrc.syno
Insert basic USB modules...
:: Loading module usb-common ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module usbcore ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module ehci-hcd ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module ehci-pci ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module ohci-hcd ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module uhci-hcd ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module xhci-hcd ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module usb-storage ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module BusLogic ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module vmw_pvscsi ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module megaraid_mm ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module megaraid_mbox ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module megaraid ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module scsi_transport_spi ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module mptbase ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module mptscsih ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module mptspi ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module mptsas ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module mptctl ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module megaraid_sas ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module mpt2sas ... [  OK  ]
:: Loading module mpt3sas ... [  OK  ]
Insert net driver(Mindspeed only)...
Starting /usr/syno/bin/synocfgen...
/usr/syno/bin/synocfgen returns 0
All disk ready or timeout execeed
[    2.912390] md: invalid raid superblock magic on sdg5
[    2.924177] md: invalid raid superblock magic on sdh5
Partition Version=8
 /sbin/e2fsck exists, checking /dev/md0... 
/sbin/e2fsck -pvf returns 0
Mounting /dev/md0 /tmpRoot
------------upgrade
Begin upgrade procedure
No upgrade file exists
End upgrade procedure
============upgrade
Wait 2 seconds for synology manufactory device
Fri Dec 13 11:43:29 UTC 2019
/dev/md0 /tmpRoot ext4 rw,relatime,journal_checksum,data=ordered 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
sys /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=2013812k,nr_inodes=503453,mode=755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
linuxrc.syno executed successfully.
Post init
fgrep: /tmpRoot/etc/rc: No such file or directory
/tmpRoot/usr/bin/sed: can't read /tmpRoot/etc/rc: No such file or directory
fgrep: /tmpRoot/etc/rc.subr: No such file or directory
/tmpRoot/usr/bin/sed: can't read /tmpRoot/etc/rc.subr: No such file or directory
switch_root: can't execute '/sbin/init': Input/output error
[    7.512323] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100
[    7.512323] 
[    7.513198] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: switch_root Tainted: PF          O 3.10.105 #24922
[    7.513275] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 12/12/2018
[    7.513353]  ffffffff814c5a1d ffffffff814c4af1 0000000000000010 ffff88013a20beb8
[    7.513431]  ffff88013a20be50 ffffffff8105fe65 0000000000000100 ffff88013a1ebb58
[    7.513509]  000000000000003b 0000000000000000 0000000000000015 ffff88013613dc00
[    7.513586] Call Trace:
[    7.513675]  [<ffffffff814c5a1d>] ? dump_stack+0xc/0x15
[    7.513760]  [<ffffffff814c4af1>] ? panic+0xbb/0x1ce
[    7.513847]  [<ffffffff8105fe65>] ? sched_move_task+0x95/0x110
[    7.513932]  [<ffffffff81037d79>] ? do_exit+0xa39/0xa40
[    7.514017]  [<ffffffff810fc878>] ? __fput+0x148/0x230
[    7.514101]  [<ffffffff81037de7>] ? do_group_exit+0x37/0x90
[    7.514185]  [<ffffffff81037e4b>] ? SyS_exit_group+0xb/0x10
[    7.514270]  [<ffffffff814ccdc4>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x22/0x27

 

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what should i do now to fix it ?

 

set sn=C7LWN09761
set mac1=0011322CA785

 

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Best Regards

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Maybe this is some kind out of the topic but I lost some hours trying to make an ESXi 6.7 VM and when it's instaling the DSM is crashing on "Can't Format the Disk (35)" error.

This happens because the XPEnology were booting up via Baremetal options. So if you want a VMWare VM you must comment out the "bare-metal" lines in grug.conf as said on the tutorial here. After that done, you end up with only one boot option and all goes nice. Hope this helps anyone.

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Good afternoon. Please tell me why during installation I constantly get an error of 13

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? I try to install DSM 6.2.2 (tried with DSM_DS3615xs_23739.pat / DSM_DS3615xs_24922.pat) on ESXI 6.0. I searched in a subject and in the Internet. Everywhere they write that this is due to the incorrectly set VID and PID. But the topic header does not indicate a change in VID and PID, and in theory should they be set in the VMDK file? I upload it to ESXI without changes. But after starting the virtual machine, its contents are constantly changing! Namely, the CID and db.longContentID are changing. What am I doing wrong ?

 

P.S That's what I see in changed vmdk:

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@luchuma

Thank's for the answer. 🙂

 

I checked my "pat" file md5. Redownloaded it again from server. As I see, it's md5 are equal.

md5: 57748c2d9bed639403fca13de64eba03 *DSM_DS3615xs_23739.pat

 

And as I see on server there is md5 for this file - https://archive.synology.com/download/DSM/release/6.2/23739/DSM_DS3615xs_23739.pat.md5

So my file "pat" file looks correct.

 

Please, can You inform me what vm config should I show ? I have several files: 

 

 

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I attached XPEnology.vmx. If other files are required, please inform me.

 

 

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XPEnology.vmx

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Hi all...I have an old xpenology system running DSM 5.2-5967 on a standalone esxi host.  I've read through this thread and the tutorial on migrating from 5.2 to 6.1, but I'm so very confused on how to actually perform a migration on esxi.  I have data and modules I'd like to preserve if at all possible, so I don't want to make a new VM and start from scratch.

 

Is it possible to migrate?  Sorry for the noob question!

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В 05.02.2020 в 18:34, Florin lupu сказал:

Hi, i used the tutorial and set the virtual machine but i cannot find the virtual machine over network and also in ESX is set the network to E1000e but there is no network information.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thank you

 

Hmm ... My ESXI doesn't show ip either, but the virtual machine is working nonetheless. I found ip by looking into the web interface of the router.

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