XPEH Posted December 18, 2013 Share #26 Posted December 18, 2013 Install ESXi onto the USB flash drive. add another small drive for VM storage and create XPEnology VM on it. Mount existing drives as RDM and assign them to this new XPEnology virtual machine. Booting back from synoboot USB instead of ESXi USB, should return system to "native" hardware install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patmtp35 Posted December 18, 2013 Share #27 Posted December 18, 2013 hi was it possible that one day we have a 32bit revions ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVDBob Posted December 18, 2013 Share #28 Posted December 18, 2013 is it possible to convert a regular n54l xpenology 4.3 build into an ESXi build without losing data on the data drives? I currently have 4 drives: 2x3gig, 2x2gig in a SHR array. How would I go about changing converting to an ESXi build? I don't think there's a way to convert it easily. The new system would want to format and create a new volume on the drives, once mounted. If you have an external drive, you could back everything up to it, create the ESXi build, mount the old drives, and then restore the data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsampo Posted December 18, 2013 Share #29 Posted December 18, 2013 Yes 32bit kernel would be great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djey Posted December 18, 2013 Share #30 Posted December 18, 2013 Install ESXi onto the USB flash drive. add another small drive for VM storage and create XPEnology VM on it. Mount existing drives as RDM and assign them to this new XPEnology virtual machine. Booting back from synoboot USB instead of ESXi USB, should return system to "native" hardware install. +1, that was I did from a Syno DS211+. Works great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wenlez Posted December 19, 2013 Share #31 Posted December 19, 2013 OMG! my dream comes true!! Anyone here uses ESXi5.5 ?? anyone passthrough the whole SATA controller so the HD SMART Status work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wenlez Posted December 19, 2013 Share #32 Posted December 19, 2013 is it possible to convert a regular n54l xpenology 4.3 build into an ESXi build without losing data on the data drives? I currently have 4 drives: 2x3gig, 2x2gig in a SHR array. How would I go about changing converting to an ESXi build? Yes, you can. I've done it in the past, with a PC hardware. What you will need is another hard drive. Ideally, installing ESXi in the 5th hard drive ( best practice is remove your old 4 drives first ). THen, enable passthrough ( does your n54L even support hard drive passthrough ?) . Then install the Xpenology, and passthrough the hard drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djey Posted December 20, 2013 Share #33 Posted December 20, 2013 OMG! my dream comes true!! Anyone here uses ESXi5.5 ?? anyone passthrough the whole SATA controller so the HD SMART Status work? Here with N54L. SMART status is not transmitted - support is incomplete from software side. I think it's driver's fault. ( does your n54L even support hard drive passthrough ?) . No need for a proper passthrough support to make it work. Raw device mapping, works on N54L whereas device passthrough is not handled by this machine (e.g unable to use real graphics card features in a vm). So this should work on most configurations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tantonsen Posted December 20, 2013 Share #34 Posted December 20, 2013 Hello, Just woundering, if this topic can be made specific for the ESXI version of 4.3 Build 3810? That way we can keep track of the working or not working things in this build rater then, how do i update from Ver 2 to ver 3 or how to install DSM. Why dont peaple start a new tread and stay on topic? "NFS Bug" still not working and is almost one page behind It we could subscribe to a tread too that would be awesome, i check multiple times a day for update, a bit disappointed reading about passthrough in this tread. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technolo-g Posted December 21, 2013 Share #35 Posted December 21, 2013 Hi, how can I mount the boot volume to edit the vender file? DiskStation> fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 311 2490240 fd Linux raid autodetect Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary /dev/sda2 311 572 2097152 fd Linux raid autodetect Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary /dev/sda3 588 1044 3667328 fd Linux raid autodetect DiskStation> DiskStation> mount /dev/root on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,user_xattr,nosynoacl,barrier=1,journal_checksum,data=ordered) /dev/root on /proc/bus/pci type ext4 (rw,relatime,user_xattr,nosynoacl,barrier=1,journal_checksum,data=ordered) none on /dev/pts type devpts (gid=4,mode=620) /sys on /sys type sysfs (0) /tmp on /tmp type tmpfs (0) /proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (0) /dev/md2 on /volume1 type ext4 (usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,synoacl) DiskStation> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share #36 Posted December 22, 2013 how can I mount the boot volume to edit the vender file? You have to attach and mount the vmdk file in an other VM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share #37 Posted December 22, 2013 Update to v1.1 available (NFS support fixed). Replace the vmdk in your datastore, and copy provided modules to /lib/modules/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tantonsen Posted December 23, 2013 Share #38 Posted December 23, 2013 Update to v1.1 available (NFS support fixed). Replace the vmdk in your datastore, and copy provided modules to /lib/modules/ Thanks Mate, works Flawless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiux Posted December 23, 2013 Share #39 Posted December 23, 2013 thank you for the great build, it works pretty good with nfs now, but iscsi still doesnt work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpopfans1 Posted December 24, 2013 Share #40 Posted December 24, 2013 (edited) Great build Thx ================= I managed to changed the MAC and serial number of the vmdx file of the 2nd N54L installation. But when I do a HA setup sync, it error out with "operation failed, please re-logon and retry again" any idea ? Edited December 24, 2013 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puwoo Posted December 24, 2013 Share #41 Posted December 24, 2013 thanks trantor The CIFS mount function of file station is not working in ESXi 5.1 with trantor's ESXi v1.1 please, support cifs mout funtion... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
envy270 Posted December 24, 2013 Share #42 Posted December 24, 2013 Hello, Noob question. Can anyone help how to install DSM 4.3 on esxi 5.5. I have installed esxi on n54l. It is up and running. Sorry if this has been answered earlier. Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fo2live Posted December 27, 2013 Share #43 Posted December 27, 2013 Hello, VPN Server not work on ESXi V1.0, but didn't test on ESXi v1.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Err0r Posted December 28, 2013 Share #44 Posted December 28, 2013 Where did you get the source for 3810? i cant find it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsgpl/f ... %20Source/ (maybe i can try compiling some kernel modules.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor Posted December 28, 2013 Author Share #45 Posted December 28, 2013 Where did you get the source for 3810? i cant find it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsgpl/f ... %20Source/ (maybe i can try compiling some kernel modules.) Look here : viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1989 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danao Posted December 29, 2013 Share #46 Posted December 29, 2013 Hey Trantor, Your build works really good, except for CIFS mount, i can't add a mount from my popcorn hour A300 With this version : viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1737 It's work ! So i tried to look at cifs.ko and try theses modules but it didn't work :/ The logs files didn't speak too much, my mount is just refused So can you have a look about cifs mount please ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiux Posted December 29, 2013 Share #47 Posted December 29, 2013 I tested with the french ovf template build as well, seems nfs/iscsi ect all works, but in console i got many errors that doesnt affect performance tho, and i need to repai my disks (4x3tb) full of apps, so I stopped testing... thanks for Trantor for his effort and hope for a build with iscsi support then I'm all set Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share #48 Posted December 29, 2013 Yes I'm aware of this two issues (cifs and iscsi) in both standard and esxi build. I spent last few days fixing issues with SCSI/SAS controllers, this is the next step Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdull Posted December 30, 2013 Share #49 Posted December 30, 2013 Can the original vmdk be removed after installed DSM? I have now keep it in the system, if it is not important shall I remove it? Thanks,. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiux Posted December 31, 2013 Share #50 Posted December 31, 2013 Can the original vmdk be removed after installed DSM?I have now keep it in the system, if it is not important shall I remove it? Thanks,. the vmdk is needed to boot the system up, I dont think you can remove it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.