HP Microserver+XPEnology

deuse · 13 Dec 2013 at 14:35

labcoattech said:
How easy is it to go from 4.2 to 4.3?

It's the same as when you first install synology. I have posted what I did and links.
My only problem is that the VM super hub2 won't let the nas do port deleting!
but the speed is ok

Oh and don't forget if you read the links it will now update from synology

Rapp · 19 Dec 2013 at 13:37

I've just ordered my HP N54L Microserver to put this on after testing it out on a virtual machine, surprised how much I liked it.

quickshot89 · 19 Dec 2013 at 19:56

I swear I'm being thick here, but how do I install on an ESXi host. Have an SSD installed (using modded bios) that will be for all host OS's. I just cant figure out how to install XPEnology

TheBiznes · 20 Dec 2013 at 07:16

quickshot89 said:
I swear I'm being thick here, but how do I install on an ESXi host. Have an SSD installed (using modded bios) that will be for all host OS's. I just cant figure out how to install XPEnology

It's very easy to install you can follow this guide.

http://xpenology.com/forum/download/file.php?id=168

Download this image

http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1939

If you want it even simpler download this OVF file and just go to file menu on Esxi and deploy template you will up and running in about 5 mins.

http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1737

Top post see download link.

Although you will also need this tool to know what IP the Synology install is on.

http://global.download.synology.com...9/Windows/SynologyAssistantSetup-4.3-4359.exe

If you haven't already installed ESXI

Download image for Micro Server here

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware/esxi-image.html

Get licence here if you can navigate their crappy site.
http://www.vmware.com

quickshot89 · 20 Dec 2013 at 13:46

I have it all setup now, transfering a test file from my current server to the ESXi box and only getting 11.4MB/s on a 1GB network, I need to check the cables but could anything else be giving poor performance? It is setup to use SMB as W8 doesnt have nfs mounting (Why MS, you had it in W7!)

When it comes to installing my 3tb disks, I have read RDM is the best option. Am I able to merge these into some form of pool, then configure as RDM and present them to the synology OS?

TheBiznes · 20 Dec 2013 at 18:28

quickshot89 said:
I have it all setup now, transfering a test file from my current server to the ESXi box and only getting 11.4MB/s on a 1GB network, I need to check the cables but could anything else be giving poor performance? It is setup to use SMB as W8 doesnt have nfs mounting (Why MS, you had it in W7!)

When it comes to installing my 3tb disks, I have read RDM is the best option. Am I able to merge these into some form of pool, then configure as RDM and present them to the synology OS?

Yes but before you do that first just RDM one drive and test throughput. With one drive you should be able to practically saturate your network or close to it around 90 to 100 or more. Then once you know everything is OK then RDM all drives you wnt and create your raid.

labcoattech · 20 Dec 2013 at 20:03

update 3 is available for 4.3

deuse · 20 Dec 2013 at 21:15

labcoattech said:
update 3 is available for 4.3

I've updated but file transfer speeds are still a bit down. I get 80MB upload and 95MB down.

joey1211 · 21 Dec 2013 at 21:48

Any ideas on the minimum recommended size for the USB stick? Will 512MB do?

deuse · 22 Dec 2013 at 09:01

joey1211 said:
Any ideas on the minimum recommended size for the USB stick? Will 512MB do?

That should be ok as nothing writes to the USB after flashing the .img

labcoattech · 22 Dec 2013 at 10:01

deuse said:
I've updated but file transfer speeds are still a bit down. I get 80MB upload and 95MB down.

With out knowing your hardware layout and how you transferred the files it would be hard to guess where the bottle neck is.

deuse · 22 Dec 2013 at 14:16

labcoattech said:
With out knowing your hardware layout and how you transferred the files it would be hard to guess where the bottle neck is.

You must have missed all the posts about the N54L

oh and the thread heading...

And there is no bottle neck.

quickshot89 · 22 Dec 2013 at 19:18

Done abit of testing today after work, Transfering large files (4-12gb a piece) seems to be going at around 11.5MB/s. Now this is from a Windows 8 box with storage spaces and the ESXi box with Synology installed. I have both machines stating that they are connected at 1Gb however this is only to the next device.

Excuse the crude diagram below

CurrentServer<--1Gb-->HP_Switch<---->Generic_GB_Switch<--1Gb-->NL54

Router is attached to the HP Switch

I suspect a cable as it should be going quicker, more like 80+ so is there anything else I can tweak and mess with before i go hunting down a cable fault

.

R3X · 22 Dec 2013 at 19:54

Tempting to try XPEnology but wondered does it support encryption and Jbod mode ?

Freenas looks good but in order to use there encryption you must loose quite a fair amount of hard drives and space just to use ZFS...

deuse · 22 Dec 2013 at 21:08

quickshot89 said:
Done abit of testing today after work, Transfering large files (4-12gb a piece) seems to be going at around 11.5MB/s. Now this is from a Windows 8 box with storage spaces and the ESXi box with Synology installed. I have both machines stating that they are connected at 1Gb however this is only to the next device.

Excuse the crude diagram below

CurrentServer<--1Gb-->HP_Switch<---->Generic_GB_Switch<--1Gb-->NL54

Router is attached to the HP Switch

I suspect a cable as it should be going quicker, more like 80+ so is there anything else I can tweak and mess with before i go hunting down a cable fault .

Are the lights on the switch showing that you have a 1GB connection?
I don't use ESXi at all so I'm not much help sorry.

R3X said:
Tempting to try XPEnology but wondered does it support encryption and Jbod mode ?

Freenas looks good but in order to use there encryption you must loose quite a fair amount of hard drives and space just to use ZFS...

I would just search synology site after all it is the same software.

visibleman · 22 Dec 2013 at 22:20

Has anyone done an upgrade from 4.2 (keeping settings and data intact)? Is it has fonix232 mentions HERE (seems a little too simple)?

R3X · 22 Dec 2013 at 23:26

deuse said:
I would just search synology site after all it is the same software.

Yup tried just that but even in the live demo you cant use it fully ie load volumes or remove them etc.

Think ill have to install XPEnology and just test run it to find out.

deuse · 23 Dec 2013 at 07:49

R3X said:
Yup tried just that but even in the live demo you cant use it fully ie load volumes or remove them etc.

That's what I did. But don't forget to backup. Also look at my post 97 that may help.

labcoattech · 23 Dec 2013 at 14:13

visibleman said:
Has anyone done an upgrade from 4.2 (keeping settings and data intact)? Is it has fonix232 mentions HERE (seems a little too simple)?

Upgrading from 4.2 to 4.3 was pretty simple to do but scary at the same time when it came up with the message formatting and installing new os, however my data was still intact as were the shares. All other settings were wiped though.

To upgrade you need to write the 4.3 image to the usb flash drive which will wipe it, boot up and go through the process as if you are installing for the first time, I'm not sure if I got any options to select the type of raid I want to setup. (please make a note when you update to 4.3 and post in the forums)

After all the options have been selected it goes through the motions of installing (this is when the message about formatting the hard drives comes up) mine did not reboot it self when the countdown got to 0 so I ended up rebooting it my self, when it came backup i logged in as admin and noticed it restored all the shares that had been setup previously.

Then follow the instructions to auto update!

Once that is done then just go through the settings of adding users/permissions and so forth.

R3X · 23 Dec 2013 at 17:08

deuse said:
That's what I did. But don't forget to backup. Also look at my post 97 that may help.

thx will do