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In this video I will explain to you how to install Synology NAS on Proxmox
This way you can have a Synology NAS device without buying a physical device
Here I have prepared a Proxmox server with ip address 10.11.32.139
You first download the available files of Synology NAS for models such as DS918+, DS3615xs, DS3617xs
You can choose one of 3 models to install
In this video I choose the model DS3615xs to introduce to you
I will download the file with operating system version 6.2.3
Unfortunately not available for newer operating systems
But with this version you have all the basic features of a NAS device
To upload this file to the Proxmox server you use WinSCP
First you access Proxmox by SSH with information such as ip address, username and password
You copy and paste the downloaded file into a folder named dump
/var/lib/vz
You browse to the download folder and drag and drop the downloaded file into the dump folder
The file is about 900MB
Go back to the Proxmox management page and go to the Backups section and you will see the file you just uploaded
You select that file and Restore
I recommend that you leave the default parameters and will edit in the next steps
The restore will take about 2 to 3 minutes so please wait for a while
And here, a new virtual machine with identifier 100 appears
Next, you edit the virtual machine hardware to suit your needs
I increased the RAM memory from 512MB to 2GB
Increase the number of CPUs from 1 to 2
With the Machine configuration you set up as q35
The virtual machine will have 2 network cards available
With the 2nd network card you remove the default MAC address
You will see the MAC address issued by Proxmox
Such hardware settings are done, you start the virtual machine
The boot screen will appear three options, you choose the bottom boot
It's the boot option for virtual machines
Next you use the Synology Assistant software to scan the NAS device in your network
You will need to scan 2 to 3 times to find your NAS device
Found it, you connect and configure it
You connect to the Synology NAS you just found, name it, and set up an administrator account for it
A few more steps and finally the Synology NAS management page will appear
Your virtual NAS device already has Firmware
By default here you only have a 6GB hard drive, too small for anyone's storage needs
Therefore, I will add physical hard drives to the Synology NAS virtual machine to increase data storage capacity
You turn off the virtual machine and add physical hard drives to it
I will remove the default 6GB hard drive of the Synology NAS virtual machine
Here I prepare 2 hard drives of size 250GB
You can install multiple hard drives with larger sizes such as 1TB, 2TB or larger
You open the command window of the Proxmox hypervisor
The first command is lsblk, with this command you will know if the Proxmox server has detected your hard drives or not
As you can see two hard drives have been detected which are sdb and sdc
Next, you get the identification information of the two hard drives with the command ls dev disk by id
You use these hard drive identifiers in the next command
Add a hard drive with the command qm set 100 sata1 /dev/disk/by-id
100 is the identifier of the Synology virtual machine
You copy and paste the hard drive identifier at the end of the command
You repeat the command with the identifier of the next hard drive
With these two commands you will successfully add 2 physical hard drives to your Synology NAS virtual machine
You check the hardware of the virtual machine and you will see two more physical hard drives
Successfully added two physical hard drives, you start the virtual machine and check the results
I like this way because Synology NAS VMs start up fast
Synology NAS's operating system is fast and easy to use
There is a limitation that you cannot upgrade to newer operating systems
Here you will see two unconfigured hard drives
With 2 hard drives you can configure RAID 1
So you already own a Synology NAS on the Proxmox hypervisor
You use it like any physical NAS device
In addition, you can install more physical hard drives for it if you want
Hope you will have a pleasant experience with it
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