romansoft Posted February 15, 2017 Share #1 Posted February 15, 2017 Hi, Just created a VM in vmware workstation for testing xpenology (with the idea of moving to ESXi if test is ok): - hw type: workstation 11.x (esxi compatible) - sata disk: synoboot.vmdk (DS3615xs 6.0.2 Jun's Mod V1.01) - sata disk 2: new disk (8gb) - serial port: named pipe (only to have a look to console) With former config, I can boot xpenology and do basic install (DSM_DS3615xs_8451.pat) / config. I had to use option 1 from Jun's menu (yes, baremetal even being a vm!!); if esxi option is used, DSM doesn´t detect any disk and it's impossible to proceed with DSM install). Upon having a basic install, I shutdown VM. Then I added virtual hw: - sata disk 3: new disk (2gb) - sata disk 4: new disk (2gb) - sata disk 5: new disk (2gb) The problem is that I cannot init any of those 3 disks in storage manager. In particular, if I try to create a RAID group, I get this error: "System failed to create [RAID Group 1](Device Type is [basic]) with disk [5]." I also noticed that, during former raid creation process, DSM is showing a wrong capacity (tons of TBs instead of 2 gb capacity). I tried all kinds of different RAIDs (5, etc) but the problem is with those 3 disks, which btw are similar to disk2 (8gb) I created for testing (same kind of virtual sata device). I only can create a RAID group using disk2 (which is where DSM resides, and was init during DSM installation). Any ideas? What's going on? I'd appreciate some help, please, Cheers, -r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billat29 Posted February 15, 2017 Share #2 Posted February 15, 2017 The virtual disks are too small. Try 20Gb each - and you can choose not to allocate all the disk space when you create them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romansoft Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share #3 Posted February 15, 2017 Bingo! Thanks a lot, billat29. Cheers, -r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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