Reply To: Synology NAS ISCSI Query “topic moved” Hi all, Does anyone have a Synology NAS and setup iSCSI? Totally new to ISCSI, never used it before. My HP microserver HD is getting a bit old now and…

[kev2021]

Been looking at this a bit more and it seems quiet a few people have mentioned poor performance when using over iscisi so i’ve decided to simply buy 2 new drives to replace my agng drives in the microserver.

1 currently have:

2 x 1TB WD Green drives in a raid 1 containing the esxi OS and ISO files – Year 2008…

2 x 1TB WD Green drives in a raid 1 containing the VMs – Year 2011 – Not too worried about these, if it fails, i’ll put a new drive in, re-install the OS and then i’l; simply add the VMs back in and setup the ones i need to auto startup and shut down etc. Not a major issue as ESXi is fairly easy to install and doesn’t take too long.

So new question…

Whatsthe best way to replace the drives for the 2 drives containing the VMs?

Option 1:

1. Move VMs off to Esxi OS drives
2. Remove raid on raid controller,
3. Power off the server
4. Remove the 2 drives
5. Insert the 2 new drives
6. Power on the server
7. go into raid setup and setup the raid 1 on the new drives
8. Move Vms to new drives and mount in vmware

Option 2

1. Power off the server
2. Remove 1 of the drives in the mirror
3. Replace with a new drive
4. Power back on server
5. do raid repair of mirror
6. Power off server
7. remove other drive in mirror
8. insert new drive
9. power on
10. let it repair mirror and then all is good

I’m currently going with option 1 but its taking quiet a while to copy the VMs as it not overly quick, not sure why.  Main issue I cannot afford to loose any of the VMs as its my main server, not my test one.  I have files backed up but don’t have the VM’s themselves backed up as not found a easy free way to do this so I’m currently manually copying from the vmware vsphere client by browsing the 2 datastores and then simply right clicking the folder -> copy and then click on other windows and paste it and then wait for around a hour or two for each one so far.

Thanks

Kev

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