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In this video I will show you how to install QNAP NAS on VMWare hypervisor
This way you will turn a virtual machine into a NAS device with Qnap's pretty cool applications
I would like to warn you in advance that the installation process is quite slow, it will take about an hour and a half to install the Qnap virtual machine
Let's go
First you download the Qnap boot file
The file has the extension vmdk and is about 700MB
I already downloaded this file to my computer and then extracted it to my desktop
After getting the boot file, you create a new virtual machine on VMWare
Please note the steps to create a virtual machine, because it determines the success of the Qnap installation process on VMWare.
Give the virtual machine any name you want
Store virtual disk as a single file
Next you edit the hardware settings for the virtual machine, I increase the RAM memory to 6GB
Remove the default hard drive of the virtual machine, then remove the CD/DVD because it is not needed
You configure the network as a bridge to connect to your real network
Next is to add hard drives for the virtual machine
The first hard drive to add is the boot hard drive so you use the qnap boot file downloaded in the previous step.
That is the file with the extension vmdk after it is unzipped
The connection type of the boot hard drive is IDE
Next, you create at least one more hard drive for Qnap's storage needs
Store virtual disk as a single file
Here I add a hard drive with a capacity of 200GB, the connection type is SATA
An important thing is that you edit the virtual machine's network card from e1000 to e1000e
Otherwise the Qnap virtual machine will not receive an ip address from the DHCP server and you will not be able to connect to the NAS device
You open the folder where the virtual machine is stored and open the file with the extension vmx using NotePad
You change e1000 to e1000e
Don't forget to save the file
This step is done after the network configuration step in bridged mode
Virtual machine is ready, let's install Qnap
You start the virtual machine and press the down arrow button repeatedly on your keyboard
You choose to start from system rescue production
After a while you will boot into Tinycore
Next you open the command window, you check the ip address with the command ifconfig
You need to make sure your virtual machine has an internet connection
To know that you use the ping command to check
So my virtual machine has an internet connection, what do we do next?
You edit the qnap configuration file with the command vi ./my_create_qnap_boot
By default the configuration file will download version 4.4.2 of qnap so you need to edit it to get a newer OS version
You use the i key to start editing the configuration file
You edit the OS version to 5.0.0
After editing, use the ESC key to exit and then use :wq to save and exit
Next you use the command sudo ./my_create_qnap_boot to download the operating system and create a boot disk
When you receive the success message, use the sudo reboot command to restart the virtual machine
It will take about 10 minutes to restart the virtual machine
When the ip address appears, the virtual machine has finished booting
My virtual machine ip address is 10.11.32.192
You open any web browser and access qnap with the ip address given above
Skip the firmware update step
You will be asked to create an admin account and cannot use the admin account as admin
You write down this admin account to access qnap in the next steps
I recommend you to set a static ip address for qnap, because that will make it easier for you to access the virtual machine
Next configure gateway, dns to help connect qnap to the internet
Be more careful, you write down this ip address to access in the next step
If you forget your ip address you can use Qnap Finder to find NAS devices in your network
It will take about 10 minutes for the initial settings to complete so please wait patiently
A login screen appears, use the administrator account created in the previous step to access Qnap.
First you need to make sure that the virtual machine has detected the hard drive
Because I only created a single hard drive for the virtual machine, Qnap only detected one hard drive
You can create multiple hard drives for your virtual machine
Some settings won't work properly if you don't restart the virtual machine, so I recommend restarting
It will take about 15 minutes to restart the virtual machine
Every time the Qnap virtual machine starts up, it's a real test of my patience
It is easier to tell when the virtual machine has finished booting by looking at the virtual machine's command screen
Qnap has an interesting app store for you to explore
There are many useful apps for everyone
Next is the storage configuration, an integral part of any NAS device
So I have introduced how to install Qnap on VMWare hypervisor
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You create a new shared folder and access it remotely over the network
The installation will take about 2 hours to complete so please be patient