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ESXi DSM starting disk 2, how can I change to disk 1 + also using multiple vNIC show out of order in DSM?


vgeek79

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Hi,

 

Is there a way to force DSM do detect my VMDK #2 as disk 1?

Also is there a way to map my virtual HW virtual NIC in the same order?

 

VM HW map grub mac1 DSM LAN #
vNIC #1 mac1 LAN 2
vNIC #2 mac2 LAN 3
vNIC #3 mac3 LAN 4
vNIC #4 mac4 LAN 1

 

MySetup:

ESXi 7.0U1 / Jun 1.03b DS3617xs / DSM 6.2.3-25426 / FixSynoboot.sh

VM HW

  • VMDK #1 is Synoboot SATA
  • VMDK #2 is for DSM on PVSCIS (also tried SAS) show has disk 2

Will later add LSI3008 SAS Passthru

 

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Do you have any other customizations to the loader?  Can you print your loader options?  I do note that you are using the "Other 5.x Linux 64-bit" profile when the installation directions require "Other 3.x Linux 64-bit" profile.  We would think that it shouldn't matter but it does change the way devices are presented to the VM.  No idea if it has any bearing on this issue.

 

Here's a fully functioning VM definition with two SATA controllers. 

 

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Ah, My VMDK2 was on SATA 0:1 fixed now @ SATA 1:0

 

vNIC Ordering well I'll have to tame my OCD 😅

 

One last thing if I go beyond 4 NIC, I cant force DSM to use my VM HW MAC, @ 00:50:56:XX:XX:XX but 00:00:7F or similar, any ideas, tried grub

 

grub.cfg

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set mac1=005054000001
set mac2=005054000002
set mac3=005054000003
set mac4=005054000004
set mac5=005054000005
set mac6=005054000006
set mac7=005054000007
set mac8=005054000008

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

 

On 12/17/2020 at 6:19 AM, flyride said:

DiskIdxMap=0C00 ought to fix your drive numbering problem then.  You should use a SATA controller for disk #2, not PVSCSI.

 

So I did this and it hid the drive as expected but attempting to update to the latest DSM 6.2.3-25426 update 3 causes the pat file to not verify; no matter what I do I cannot update a new installation of DSM to update 3... The only one that will is the bog standard ESXi install approach that leaves drive 1 of the 12 occupied by the 50MB boot drive.

 

Any way around this?

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15 minutes ago, flyride said:

 

When you say "not verify" can you be specific as to what the error message is?  Are you familiar with FixSynoboot?

haha oops, I forgot to install this!  I'm looking at moving from my baremetal install to esxi hosted for reasons and haven't played with the esxi hosted version for years... the working test had the fix installed but didn't have changes to the sata args... Thank you for reminding me all working now :-)

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