HP Microserver+XPEnology

deuse · 25 Nov 2013 at 15:28

Freakbro said:
I've been meaning to setup my Microserver now for aaaggess, but I'm a complete novice when it comes to this sort of thing. (I had to google the acronyms you have been using )

From the other HP thread I did think about using Unraid, but is this better/easier to set up?

It will just be used for media storage, to stream to a WDTV live. I have the 250gb drive it came with and 4 x 2TB drives to setup in a raid (Raid 5?)

Which one you going with 4.2 or 4.3?

I'm now back on 4.2 using img off one guy and the pat file from another guy.
Doing it this way it was easy for me to add a few lines to the conf file to get my real mac address and wol working.

edit= you will need a file called "MediaServer-x64-1.1-2403.spk" because synology took out transcoding after that version.
I now use a wdtv(3ed gen) and it works great using windows shares.

If you need help just ask mate.

deuse · 12 Dec 2013 at 12:22

Just thought I would put a few updates for those who want 4.3 plus auto updates from synology.

A guy named iceget has posted a great tool for changing the Nic address http://www.raving.at/

Link to the post to say thanks http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1353&start=60#wrap

To update to 4.3 with update 2

using Trantor's build of 4.3 Go to update, click download. Then go to scheduled tasks and create a custom task

sed 's/flashupdateDeb/flashupdateDeb1/' /[email protected] > /[email protected]
mv /[email protected] /[email protected]

Run this task. Then go to update and hit the update button. Thanks to VeNoM for this.

I've tested it and it work great. Now running 4.3 with update 2 from synology and with the right Nic number and wol is working.

deuse · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:27

You best look on the synology main site for the new stuff. I like it now the nic addy is ok and wol is working.
All the android apps work ok as well. I use no-ip for my ddns.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

deuse · 28 Dec 2013 at 08:55

Sorry never used it as I use Jbod on my 4 hard drives. Have a look and the synology forum?

deuse · 28 Dec 2013 at 16:35

MattGarner said:
You will probably need information which I'll be able to provide if you tell me what you need to know. I am currently running XPEnology with ESXI on a microserver. The transfer rates seem to start good but after a few seconds they go down to under 10MB/s and I'm not sure if that is normal or not.

Can anyone shed some light for me?

I had speed problems but after update 3 all is ok now, but I don't run it with ESXI so that could be the problem.

deuse · 30 Dec 2013 at 07:10

joey1211 said:
Should I install the DSM updates that the software is notifying me or will it bork my microserver?

I've updated with no problems. My post here may help http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=25475385&postcount=97

MattGarner said:
I've edited the MAC address to the real one so I was able to use WOL but it seems I am now getting notifications through one of the apps about other peoples servers? What's the recommended way to solve that.

Which app?

deuse · 30 Dec 2013 at 12:50

MattGarner said:
Hey,

I believe it's the "DS Finder" application

Are you 100% sure you have the real mac addy? I've just tried it on mine using wireless and only my addy shows

I do use a DDNS(no-ip) for contacting it outside my lan. Hold on there was some other person in this thread that it happened to
maybe look back a few pages?

Edit=just thought how did you edit the vender file? did you use the small app I posted and deleted the other 3 mac addys?

deuse · 30 Dec 2013 at 13:42

I used the randomize option on 3 of them and put the right addy at the top. Don't forget to backup before you play

Are you contacting the nas by Lan or Wan?

deuse · 5 Jan 2014 at 10:18

MattGarner said:
I shall take another look into when I'm home from work. I'm contacting the nas by LAN.

Thanks for the help so far!

How did you get on?

For you guys\gals that haven't turned on WOL please try this. Make sure your Nas is off but the light on the nas is still orange
install the DS finder pick your nas from the list it may ask you if you want to turn it on
Say yes and see if it does. The reason I ask is I've found that even with WOL off in the options it's really on.

I'm trying to find out if it's just me or?

deuse · 8 Jan 2014 at 08:48

All sorted

for you people who have the same problem a guy named Stanza has fixed it

Edit

/etc/synoinfo.conf
/etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf

Change these lines
eth0_wol_options="g"
eth1_wol_options="g"
wol_enabled_options=""

deuse · 8 Jan 2014 at 12:24

jaket said:
Running 4.3 Update 3 on N54L.

Just waiting on esata to sata cable to have an ssd cache.
4X2TB Sammy's + standard 250gb drive.
1x 36GB SSD cache.

Need to enable WOL so HDD hibernation will work which I will do on the weekend.

Nice one dude

Don't forget to test WOL before you setup it up just in case

deuse · 9 Jan 2014 at 17:42

jalyst said:
Does anyone know how the bq/design/hw of the HP micro-servers stack up again the hw in these QNAP/Synology NAS appliances?
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2205982#r1
I'm talking about every little "bell & whistle", right down to somewhat gimmicky things like drive-locks & display.
I know the former is much cheaper, but that's not my main interest at this point...

Thank-you.

R3X said:
Does anyone know how much the HP N54L idles at (power watts?) and also when its using say 4 large hdds when its downloading/streaming ?

Would be nice to gauge the power wattage and is WOL fully working ?

Post here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18216324

That's the main HP Nas thread.

deuse · 12 Jan 2014 at 20:11

labcoattech said:
Update 4 is now available

Thanks just installed it and all went well.

deuse · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:28

DS 5 Beta is out. I haven't tried it yet as it hasn't shown up in the update part of control panel. Plex for DS 5 works ok so far.

Going to try and install it now..nope