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Creating an instance of Raidiator 6.10.8 as a virtual machine?
Is there a way to create an instance of Raidiator 6.10.8 as a VM? I want to be able to use Parallels on my mac with an install of of 6.10.8 so I can test software installs without risk. I tried just ...
https://github.com/ReadyNAS/sdk/wiki/Setup-ReadyNAS-OS-on-VirtualBox
Once you get it running, you can update to OS 6.10.8 just as you would a real NAS.
sorry to hijack this. Is there a way to deploy the same VMDK in esxi or proxmox?
I don't think so. The OS recognizes that it's running in VirtualBox. Where it normally displays the model number in the GUI, it says "Virtualbox Simulation". But you can certainly try it.
- The ReadyNAS vmkd is a monolithic sparse disk. Esxi will not take it. using esxi can potentially enable USB which is very useful.
In the VBox VM, lspci reveals: USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller. I've not actually connected a USB drive, but I assume it works.
- I have been unable. No error messages, just can’t see the usb drive anywhere in the UI, system overview, shares or backup. The isb drive is being shared as the host computer does not see the Usb drive once the vm is running.
- This can be deployed in esxi making a virtual soft readynas. Just need to figure out how to automount external USB under /media and appear in frontview.
I tried with the simplest of USB devices -- a 2GB USB stick FAT formatted -- and could not get it to automount using USB1.1, 2.0, or 3.0 drivers. Since I rarely use USB devices even on a real NAS, I just had never even tried. The hotplug_event or event_push commands may be a way to make the GUI aware of a USB drive, but I don't know the syntax and Netgear has never documented any of those commands. The --help for each isn't a lot of help.
- Thank you for taking the time testing.
For me, I always back up my NAS to a USB drive.
The part i like ReadyNAS about the most is its backup function. It is simple, flexible. It can make backup between almost any device bidirectionally. If i can automount USB to ReadyNAS virtual machine in ESXi, i do not need a physical ReadyNAS. Now that i am able to deploy it in esxi, I just need to figure out USB automount. It does not have to be exactly the same as readyNAS. I am able to create a share and mount the USB to that share. But i have not figured out how to make it persist through restart.
Preliminary research points to a number of options:
AutoFS
Fstab
A unit file
Udev
But i am not an expert and will have to study So are you rotating the USB drives? If not, does EXSi have a capability of mounting raw drives, as I discuss here: Mounting-ReadyNAS-drives-in-a-virtual-NAS-for-data-access? I've not tried it with a USB drive, but don't know why it wouldn't work. Of course, it would no longer appear as a removable USB drive to the OS. You'd create a new volume on it as if it were an "internal" drive.
- Never tried or played with mounting raw disk.
I am not rotating the USB drive.
My ReadyNAS is a backup of the synology NAS. - Unable to mount NTFS usb drives. And unable to install ntgs-3g driver either, even the netgear version of it.
What does real readynas use to mount NTFS drives? Thanks.
By mounting to /mnt, can you still see/access the drive within the GUI/dashboard, or windows explorer/network places? I can not. the only way I can access it is command line.
tigerten wrote:By mounting to /mnt, can you still see/access the drive within the GUI/dashboard, or windows explorer/network places?
No, because it's not an SMB share. If you want to do something temporary, then you could of course create a mount point on the data volume and mount to that.
I haven't used USB drives for quite a while, so I haven't paid much attention to how the OS-6 ReadyNAS application handles them.
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