It would be ideal if this can be done within XPEnology, at the very least having the SMIS Provider installed in XPEnology would allow a remote connection from a Windows Server via MSM without having to shutdown XPEnology. I currently have XPEnology installed on ESXi 6.0 and have my 9265-8i setup as a passthrough device to XPEnology, but in order to do any array management etc I have to shutdown XPEnology and pass the 9265-8i to a Windows Server 2012 R2 server and use MSM within Windows, then move the controller back to XPEnology. Initializing any drive overwrites the drive contents, including the operating system if it is installed.Wondering if anyone has installed or know what is involved to adding support for LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager or the SMIS Provider to XPEnology? LSI/Avago has a Linux 64-bit MSM and SMIS Provider available for download, I'm just not sure how to add it to XPEnology. Download LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i Driver v. This might take a long time if the disks are large.Ĭaution - To prevent an inoperable system, do not initialize a drive on which the operating system is installed. 1 - When start minimized is checked or unchecked, a Task in Windows Task Scheduler is created or. You cannot write data to the new virtual disk until the initialization is complete. Full Initialization: A complete initialization is done on the new configuration.This enables you to start writing data to the virtual disk immediately. Fast Initialization: MSM quickly writes zeros to the first and last 10 MB regions of the new virtual disk, and then completes the initialization in the background.No Initialization: The new configuration is not initialized and the existing data on the disks is not overwritten.Disk Cache Policy: Select a cache setting for this disk: Unchanged, Enabled, or Disabled.You do not necessarily need to change these parameters when you create a storage configuration you can leave the values at the default settings. This section describes the virtual disk parameters that you can set when you use the Guided Configuration or Manual Configuration modes of the Configuration Wizard.

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