well, i started always with a baremetal system, always used an SSD to install DSM and apps, later on , always plugged in the extra SATA disks for files and backup
now, i started with esxi, created also an virtual disk on my ssd datastore now, installed DSM, did some basic setup, when everything was finished, i plugged in my other disks
after i booted, my dsm started up, BUT with the configuration of my old system
so am i correct that the configuration/settings of DSM