Install Xpenology (DSM 6.2.1) on ESXi 6.7 – Ready made OVA file

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3 years ago

There are plenty of tutorial on how to install Xpenology in virtual environment. I tried few method a year ago and given up. Recently I found newer how-to and success after hitting few bumps. You can refer to this post if you want to try on your own and learn something new along the path. I have decided to improvise it and prepare a ready made OVA file, to ease you importing this VM (or just being lazy to follow the step by step guide :)).

First of all, please download the OVA files from links at the bottom. After that, unzip it and start importing the OVA from your ESXi or VMWare Workstation. This OVA file was exported from ESXi 6.7, and running DSM 6.2.1 – latest version as of this post).

Drag all the 3 files to the import window

Choose Thick for best performance (pre-allocate disk space)

Increase Disk 2 if needed

Click finish to complete import and power on the VM

Wait for 1 minute and locate yoru DSM VM. The VM will obtain ip address from DHCP (you can check from your DHCP server) or just type find.synology.com in your web browser – it will scan your network and find the DSM

When DSM is located, click Connect

Enter your DSM info here

Click “Skip this step”

Go to Storage Manager to create your first disk pool

Drag the available disk from the left to the right

Next is to create volume pool

This is optional but recommended step. Download openvm-tool and install it using Package Center. This is to enable ESXi to have visibility on this VM such as IP Address and allow you to gracefully shutdown the VM from vSphere.