brauner Posted July 9, 2015 Share #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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent47SG1 Posted July 9, 2015 Share #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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billat29 Posted July 9, 2015 Share #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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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