brauner Posted July 9, 2015 #1 Posted July 9, 2015 Hello, Please advice how to migrate from PC based XPEnology to VM based XPEnology under ESXi. My current setup is: Simple PC Disk #1 (compact flash disk - IDE adapter) > boot image Disk #2+#3 (2 Tera each) > DSM and 1 volume (Synology Hybrid RAID) The setup I wish to create: Simple PC >ESXi >>VM Guest >>> virtual disk #1 - boot image >>> disk #2 + #3 - connected to guest as RDM (raw device map) I will set the ESXi hypervison and guest, and I will create and modify the virtual disk for the image boot. The only thing that I need is a best practice, how to take the 2 HD that were connected to the PC-XPEnology and make them work with the VM XPEnology, without loosing data and settings Thank you -Roei
agent47SG1 Posted July 9, 2015 #2 Posted July 9, 2015 Hello, you should use the vmware converter cd and make a cold P2V https://feld.me/pub/VMware-convertercd-4.1.1-206170.zip
billat29 Posted July 9, 2015 #3 Posted July 9, 2015 I think you just need to create a virtual disk with the same copy of the image and then define your disks as RDM. I did it the other way - started under ESXi and then went to bare metal by building the same version of bootloader on USB. DSM didn't notice.
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