- #Cant create vm esxi 6.5 install#
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It should have stated: "Bootloader is ONE/A SET of files" and "here is an example of a Bootlader file name", "and "here is where you find all bootloaders: hyperlink"
#Cant create vm esxi 6.5 download#
It says what bootloader DOES, but not what it IS in terms of ACTUAL FILES that user need to download from ! It's important for users to know WHAT they are looking for, and when they download it to KNOW whether it is complete (set of files) or not.Īnd it isn't. This is important, because some guides show reference to IMG file only, while others to both IMG and VMDK files. The answer to that questions should be straight forward and mere seconds. The best product is worthless, if user guide is not user-friendly. IMO, the problem is not my lack of understanding Synology, but lack of organization of basic information on this site. It also doesn't help that when someone mentions a reference, they either don't provide the link (hyperlink), or the hyperlink is invalid. I do not have basic understanding of what Xpenology does, because there is not coherent guide and introduction. I think I do have basic understanding of DSM after owning it for several years.
#Cant create vm esxi 6.5 install#
It's a bit easier to make functional if already familiar with a baremetal install of DSM under XPEnology, and practical knowledge of ESXi is also very helpful. Many who deploy DSM using XPEnology for the first time do so on baremetal (without virtualization) because the behavior of the system and how it relates to the hardware is closest to the experience they have had with actual Synology hardware.ĮSXi adds more complexity to the installation but increases hardware options and capabilities. Most who want to DSM using XPEnology have a base understanding of what DSM is and does, and may understand its limitations, having used it on actual Synology hardware before, so the above statements are neither controversial or offensive. But the capabilities of DSM are defined by Synology (NVMe support, for example), and we can extend some of those capabilities by leveraging the hardware options available to us (using ESXi to map NVMe drives into DSM, for example). XPEnology intends to defeat those failsafe checks and allow DSM to run on other hardware.
#Cant create vm esxi 6.5 software#
They would prefer that nobody uses this software outside of their paid hardware platform, so they put in failsafe checks to disable the software when their hardware is not detected. Synology sells hardware that runs open-source software on it which they brand as DSM. Maybe some baseline perspective would be helpful. I verified that I have SATA controller as an option for EVERY of the following operating systems listed, EXCEPT for Xpenology. When I try to install FreeNAS, I can clearly see SATA controller as an option!!
I just tried to install FreeNAS (10 minutes exercise vs almost 20+ hours of going through Xpenology forums). IMO, the error is in Xpenology bootloaders, or a maze of its, often outdated, conflicting and/or incomplete user guides. In each of the above cases, you will have NVMe performance but DSM will think it's a SATA drive. But you can't use it as an ESXi datastore at the same time (you will need something else for your datastore). You can also create a physical RDM pointer to your NVMe drive and present it to the VM as a SATA-connected drive. You can definitely create a virtual disk on your NVMe datastore and present it to your VM as a SATA-connected drive. I'm not sure if you created a virtual data disk or not but you need something to attach to the controller. Then you are trying to configure a virtual SCSI controller (which won't work with DSM 6.2). Your NVMe drive seems to be attached to ESXi as a datastore (which is fine). Not for installation/boot/data, which must be SATA.īut I don't think that's the issue here, it seems that maybe you don't fully understand how devices are represented in ESXi. Not so?ĭSM 6.2 on DS918 as compiled by Synology supports NVMe drives for cache only. This website specifically says that 918 supports NVMe, and NVME is a PCIE interface not SATA. I do not have anything plugged into SATA drives. But NOTE that I have PCIE SSD (M.2) wit NVMe protocol.