Intro/Motivation   This seems like hard-to-find information, so I thought I'd write up a quick tutorial.  I'm running XPEnology as a VM under ESXi, now with a 24-bay Supermicro chassis.  The Supermicro world has a lot of similar-but-different options.  In particular, I'm running an E5-1225v3 Haswell CPU, with 32GB memory, on a X10SLM+-F motherboard in a 4U chassis using a BPN-SAS2-846EL1 backplane.  This means all 24 drives are connected to a single LSI 9211-8i based HBA, flashed to IT