MooseMan123 Posted January 29, 2019 Share #1 Posted January 29, 2019 I have been playing around with getting DSM running on my second ESXi host for the longest time, but I run into the problem of the disk not being "aligned" 1-12. So I have to modify DSM to allow more disks to see all of them This is fine, but if I ever need to migrate or switch loaders, I get into a loop of installations because as soon as I modify DSM to see more disks, it wants to migrate the install, and then overwrites the modifications again causing the disks not to show up I would be perfectly content with giving my DSM VM a Whatever size virtual disk (Which would be on my nice enterprise NVMe SSD...) and then telling it NOT to put the OS on the storage disks This way, all I would have to do is migrate that virtual disk, and then simply attach the physical disks and import the array Is this possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dfds Posted January 29, 2019 Share #2 Posted January 29, 2019 No it isn't possible, DSM will install on all HDD's automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseMan123 Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share #3 Posted January 29, 2019 So if I start off the install with 2 drives, and then add 10, it will automatically "mirror" the install to the other drives in the background, no matter what type of separate disk group I make? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codedmind Posted February 6, 2019 Share #4 Posted February 6, 2019 I'm having the same issues 😕 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codedmind Posted February 6, 2019 Share #5 Posted February 6, 2019 Don't know if this would help ... But i don't understand the suggestion made Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyride Posted February 6, 2019 Share #6 Posted February 6, 2019 (edited) You can run two Storage Pools (one on enterprise SSD and the other on regular disk) and accomplish what you want without worrying about whether DSM is installed on regular disk. However, my configuration is exactly what you are envisioning - isolate DSM to an enterprise SSD (in my case NVMe) RAID 1 which speeds things up quite a bit. Link/guide in my sig. Edited February 6, 2019 by flyride Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyride Posted February 6, 2019 Share #7 Posted February 6, 2019 On 1/29/2019 at 9:36 AM, MooseMan123 said: So if I start off the install with 2 drives, and then add 10, it will automatically "mirror" the install to the other drives in the background, no matter what type of separate disk group I make? For the DSM and swap partition, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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