Synology on iThinkVirtual™

VMware Software Manager: The Good...The Bad...The Alternative!

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:00:51 -0500

In this post, I am going to discuss a little, “not-so-well-known” utility, called VMware Software Manager. This little “beast” was first released as v1.0 back on 2015-03-12, and its most current release, v1.5, came out on 2016-08-25. So as you can see, it’s been quite a while since this tool has seen a new update release. The problem now is that this utility seems to have been forgotten and/or neglected by VMware, but I will get into more of that a little later. Let’s start off with the positive stuff.

vSphere…Synology…NFS v4.1

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 03:39:14 -0500

Welcome, and thanks for visiting my blog!

In this post, I am going to cover how to enable NFS v4.1 on a Synology device and then mount and NFS v4.1 datastore in VMware vSphere 6.5. By default, Synology devices support NFS v4 natively, and although they can also support NFS v4.1, it is not enabled. Well, not to worry because I am going to show you just how to enable the feature on your device.

Homelab Makeover 2.0

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 01:20:14 -0500

Hello and first off, thank so much for visiting my blog! If you have followed any part of my “Homelab” series, you will be familiar with the components that make up my home “Datacenter”. If not, take some time to catch up on those posts!

Create a Synology VM with XPEnology

Sat, 30 Apr 2016 05:44:02 -0400

Create a Synology VM with XPEnology

I’m a huge fan of Synology NAS systems, but I must say, they do often put a gaping hole in your wallet. Well, fortunately the folks over at XPEnology have created an alternative way for us to create your own Synology devices, whether it be deployed on a bare-metal system or as a virtual machine. I currently own a few Synology NAS devices, but I love having the ability to spin up a working VM version quickly and with ease, for use in my nested lab environments.