Guides

This guide assumes you are using ESXI with passthrough for storage disks and a faster datastore drive.

• Follow Passthrough
• Follow the setup options in the guide below with the following changes:
  • Change DiskIdxMap=0C SataPortMap=1 to DiskIdxMap=0C0001 SataPortMap=11 in the set sata_args line in grub.cfg (This limits the two esxi sata controllers to one disk each)
  • Add another sata controller
  • Add a small (20GB? depending on which/how many packages one wants) drive
• Follow https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/13061-tutorial-install-dsm-62-on-esxi-67
• Create a Storage Pool for the small ESXI virtual drive
• Create another Storage Pool for the storage drives
• Create an ext4 volume on the first storage pool
• Create a BTRFS volume on the second storage pool
• Follow https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/12391-nvme-optimization-baremetal-to-esxi-report
• Install all packages to the ext4 NVMe volume for speed
• Install the open-vm-tools package
• Set up File Services
• Set up Notifications
• Add Users
• Enable and change SSH port to 50001
• : Add other stuff…
• Shut down and create a snapshot in ESXI then start the VM again

System:

• The system will send an email when an update is found.
• Check XPEnology Community Forum - Updates to see whether the update requires any extra work or causes issues, and to check the release notes.
• Navigate to the Synology DSM
• Shutdown the DSM
• Navigate to ESXi and create a snapshot using the current DSM version as the name
• Power on the VM again
• Follow any extra instructions from the forum
• If not otherwise instructed:
  • DSM > Control Panel > Update & Restore > DSM Update:
    • Download
    • Then Update Now when the download is finished

Packages:

• A notification will be sent to the web interface when a package needs an update (Optionally receive an email if desired)
• Package Center > Installed > Attention Required:
  • Click on each of the packages if you want to check the changelogs
  • Either click Update All or Update each package individually