HP Microserver+XPEnology

deuse · 10 Nov 2014 at 11:26

quickshot89 said:
I currently have the latest gnoboot on my xpenology, if I switch to nanoboot on the usb stick, will my drives be safe when I switch them over? I have most things backed up already but not everything as I dont have the space.

I would wait till then new version comes out. All you have to do is flash your usb stick and chose upgrade
from the HP when it gets to the nanoboot screen. Oh and download what version of Synology you need first.

Azza · 11 Nov 2014 at 22:13

hmm my download speed via NZBGet or SAB is woeful. Any ideas on why it differs so much to my PC? Get ~8 on PC and 2.5 on the N54L.

Bradmax57 · 11 Nov 2014 at 22:33

odd, mine is the same as pc, presuming you have same servers and ports setup etc?

Buffalo2102 · 11 Nov 2014 at 22:57

Me too. Maxes out my fibre connection at 8.9MB/s.

Mercurial · 12 Nov 2014 at 11:33

DSM 5.1 out. Anyone upgraded?

I'm still on 4493 update 7. Skipped the previous build as this was round the corner.

Edit - seems to have major issues. I will leave it for a while.

visibleman · 12 Nov 2014 at 12:30

Mercurial said:
DSM 5.1 out. Anyone upgraded?

Edit - seems to have major issues. I will leave it for a while.

Yup, seems that it doesn't mount drives correctly after reboot for us XPEnology users although 5.1 is getting a lot of flack over on the Synology forums anyway.
I did see a 5.1 image floating around which might work.

However, 5.0-4528 Update 2 has been released; seems to have had minimal testing so it might be worth waiting a few days.

blue_max · 12 Nov 2014 at 12:36

They seem to be releasing a new update every other week! No wonder there are problems. They can't be thoroughly testing these releases.

And I wonder if it is as much about making things difficult for other developers. But maybe I'm just being cynical.

Azza · 12 Nov 2014 at 22:21

Bradmax57 said:
odd, mine is the same as pc, presuming you have same servers and ports setup etc?

Buffalo2102 said:
Me too. Maxes out my fibre connection at 8.9MB/s.

Seems to have just sorted itself out now.

Pretty much all up and running just need to sort out renaming and moving awell as removal of unneeded files / folders.

deuse · 13 Nov 2014 at 10:38

Azza said:
Seems to have just sorted itself out now.

Pretty much all up and running just need to sort out renaming and moving awell as removal of unneeded files / folders.

And I hope you deleted the admin account and done your own. Still no img for 5.1

Azza · 13 Nov 2014 at 12:04

Assume you mean as per - https://couchpota.to/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10451

Or is there an easier / secure way to do it?

deuse · 13 Nov 2014 at 14:37

Azza said:
Assume you mean as per - https://couchpota.to/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10451

Or is there an easier / secure way to do it?

https://www.synology.com/en-uk/knowledgebase/tutorials/478
Hope that helps.

blue_max · 19 Nov 2014 at 17:56

deuse said:
https://www.synology.com/en-uk/knowledgebase/tutorials/478
Hope that helps.

Glad to see you back Deuse - saw you were suspended or something and was a bit worried. You give good info and I'd certainly miss you.

HEADRAT · 27 Nov 2014 at 21:04

Hi,

I'm trying to setup ESXI 5.5 and add 2 x 3TB drives to my datastore with the command so that they can be seen by my XPEnology server:

vmkfstools -r /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD30EFRX2D68EUZN0_________________________WD2DWCC4NPUZ4SP5 /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/RDM/disk1.vmdk

but I get the error:-

Failed to create virtual disk: The specified device is not a valid physical disk device (20).

what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

HEADRAT

Frozennova · 27 Nov 2014 at 21:33

HEADRAT said:
Hi,

I'm trying to setup ESXI 5.5 and add 2 x 3TB drives to my datastore with the command so that they can be seen by my XPEnology server:

vmkfstools -r /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD30EFRX2D68EUZN0_________________________WD2DWCC4NPUZ4SP5 /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/RDM/disk1.vmdk

but I get the error:-

Failed to create virtual disk: The specified device is not a valid physical disk device (20).

what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

HEADRAT

I always followed this guide with success until a decided to get a proper SATA controller and hardware that allowed pass thru
http://blog.davidwarburton.net/2010/10/25/rdm-mapping-of-local-sata-storage-for-esxi/

HEADRAT · 27 Nov 2014 at 21:43

Sweet, that fixed it

Can you recommend a SATA controller that does pass through?

Frozennova · 27 Nov 2014 at 22:00

It's motherboard/cpu dependant rather than the card itself, but I'm using a Dell SAS6/IR

I'm assuming you're using a HP Microserver in which case hardware pass thru isn't supported.
Then if you decide to go AMD like I did finding a motherboard that supports it fully is a nightmare as there's not a great deal in which boards have full IOMMU support.

HEADRAT · 29 Nov 2014 at 07:05

I now have XPEnology 5.0-4528 running under ESXI (N54 Microsever), everything seems fine but both NZBGET and/or SABNZB seem to download very slowly I just can't seem to work out why!!!

Downloads work but I never seem to get a download above 800 kbps (should be getting about 2 mbps).

Not sure where to look, any help appreciated.

HEADRAT

HEADRAT · 29 Nov 2014 at 12:51

LOL, I worked out why, had a powercut last night and it borked my broadband, reset router and everything is fine !!

deuse · 30 Nov 2014 at 09:06

5.1 is still not out. But as soon as the code is released by synology it won't take long.

gam3r · 19 Dec 2014 at 10:27

Hi All,

I am currently running Windows Server 2008 R2 on my Microserver - but I'm having stability issues so I was considering switching over to this.

Questions:
1) File systems: All my media drives are NTFS. Will these work with XPEnology?
2) Will XPEnology work with a torrent/SaBNZB server setup?
3) I have a TV Card in my Microserver. Does TVHeadend work with XPEnology? What about drivers of the card?