HP Microserver+XPEnology

dtokez said:
does anyone use the ip camera package?
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Synology Surveillance Station?

I do. It's a little basic but does what it says on the 'tin'. Only really issue i've had is the Surveillance Station service locking/hanging when changing the frame-rate of a cheapo-DLink (works fine with my Hikvision's) and only real annoyance is that OSD text is handled by the camera not Surveillance Station, so it's difficult to get the same OSD text across all the cameras if you mix'n'match.
 
BlizzardX said:
So if you're not sure how DSM works, I'll explain. Xpenology uses a boot drive, somewhere around 15mb from a USB stick, this loads the boot system that can then load DSM. Proper synologies have this as a soldered device on the motherboard, we have to rely on an external device. Once booted, DSM is then installed to ALL HDDs attached as a new partition... Somewhere around 250mb as far as I could see. Once installed, you then have access to DSM.

The USB stick is required to boot the system but not required once booted and really doesn't contain any files apart from some drivers and boot information.

EDIT: as mentioned above, an SSD wont work as a boot device and it will just act as a normal HDD for the system.
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Most helpful thanks :)

I didn't want the os to install to any of the 4x hdd's that was all.

Should get mine this week! :D
 
Hi guys,

My google skills are failing me or I'm just plan daft, is there an easy way to update from 'DSM 5.0-4493' to the latest version without rebuilding the usb pen drive?

Thanks :)
 
Can you interchange usb boot sticks? I've found a smaller 1gb stick that would be more suited than the 8gb I'm currently using. Are there any issues in using a different stick?
 
So, it looks like xpenology.nl has been taken down. Seems like the owner didn't want to get any threats from Synology, especially as they're trialling 5.2 beta at the moment. Not sure where you can get the images from now, as I don't think they where hosted on xpenology.com
 
BlizzardX said:
So, it looks like xpenology.nl has been taken down. Seems like the owner didn't want to get any threats from Synology, especially as they're trialling 5.2 beta at the moment. Not sure where you can get the images from now, as I don't think they where hosted on xpenology.com
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noooooo :( what do you think that means for the future of xpenology?
 
Can anyone tell me (or point me to a guide on) how to install Xpenology on an N36L? I've found loads of guides with broken links, talking about old versions - I've no idea what is what anymore.

What should I be doing in April 2015 to install Xpenology on an HP N36L?
 
Oh ok, it was simpler than expected. I just DD'd the XPEnoboot image to a USB and booted off that. I thought there'd be more faffing with pat files and the like.
 
Ok, so I seem to have managed to install DSM 5.1 update 3 without any really difficulty.

Currently I have:

  • WD 6TB Red = installed in Microserver as HDD1 (no data yet)
  • 3x 2TB WD Green = currently uninstalled (all with existing data on from PC server)

I think I want my final installation to be WD Red 6TB as single disk with 3x WD Green 2TB in SHR and retire the old server.

My question is, what is the best way to do this?

1) I assume I want to create a separate Disk Group and Volume for the 6TB drive?
2) If I add the other drives now, what happens to any data already on them?
3) Do I need to transfer all data to the 6TB drive before installing the 3x 2TB drives?
4) Presumably to create the SHR volume for the 3x 2TB drives, they will need to be free of data at that point?

All of my essential data will be backed up elsewhere, in case the worst should happen - but obviously I'd like to avoid an unnecessary restore process if I possibly can.

Appreciate any suggestions on the best way to get all of my drives installed and data available with minimum amount of fuss.
 
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Ok so I'm thinking I probably want to do the following:

  • Create a Disk Group and single (SHR) Volume for the 6TB drive.
  • Start copying the contents of the 3x 2TB drives from the old server to 6TB drive on NAS, over home network.
  • Once complete, move the 3x 2TB drives over to the NAS.
  • Create another Disk Group and (SHR) Volume for the 3x 2TB drives.

Does this sound right?

I'm assuming that there's no way to avoid having to transfer data between the drives, using the networked connection between NAS and server?

And the best way to configure a single disk setup for the 6TB drive is to set it as the only disk in it's own SHR volume? That way, if I add another 6TB disk in future, I could add it to that volume (and effectively have RAID1), or I could keep the new disk separate and allocate it as a new (single disk) volume as well, if I wanted.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to avoid having to fully wipe the 3x 2TB drives when creating their Disk Group and SHR Volume.

I'll hold off doing anything until someone can comment on either of the above posts and hopefully confirm I've understood correctly, or not.
 
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