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You want to experience Synology NAS and its amazing applications but don't have a real device so what to do?
In this video I will show you how to install Synology NAS 7.1 operating system on VMWare hypervisor
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First of all you need to download the tinycore redpill loader tool
The link to download this tool I will put in the description of the video
After extracting you will get a file with extension vmdk
With tinycore redpill you can create many different loaders suitable for different Synology NAS platforms
So you can experience different Synology NAS platforms without buying any physical equipment.
You can install on hypervisor VMWare Workstation Pro or VMWare Workstation Player depending on which version you are using
In this video I use VMWare Workstation Pro hypervisor to create a new virtual machine
I will create a new virtual machine and name it Synology 7
Next I will customize the hardware to match the NAS device
Increase virtual machine RAM size to 4GB for better experience
Set up the network in bridge mode to communicate directly with the local network you are using
You remove the default hard drive, remove the CD/DVD, remove the printer, remove the sound card
You add 3 hard drives for the virtual machine, the first hard drive to add is the file you downloaded in the previous step with the extension vmdk
The first hard drive is a Synology NAS loader
Next, you add two equally sized hard drives to configure RAID1 for the NAS device
You can customize the capacity for these hard drives however you want, in this example I add two hard drives with a capacity of 120GB
All 3 hard drives have SATA connections
How to add a second hard drive and a third hard drive is exactly the same
You can add multiple hard drives to your Synology NAS virtual machine depending on the platform you choose
So the virtual machine is ready, you start it to perform the next step
You wait a bit until the word core appears in the center of the screen
So what is the ip address of the virtual machine,
open a command prompt and type ifconfig to display the ip address
As here the ip address is 10.11.32.69
You use this ip address for remote access by ssh
Default username and password are tc and P@ssw0rd
To get the loader for Synology NAS copy and paste the commands as above
The first and second commands help you to update and upgrade this tool to the latest version
Latest version helps you create loaders for the latest Synology NAS platforms
And here is a list of loaders you can create for Synology NAS platforms
Synology NAS has 7 different platforms for different customer needs
Each platform has different operating system versions
Here is a summary of 7 different Synology NAS platforms to give you the best overview
The easiest way to tell them apart is the maximum number of hard drives that can be installed on each NAS device
In this example I choose DS3615xs to create the loader
OS version is DSM 7.1
To create the desired loader I use the command as above
If you choose another platform, you can customize the command accordingly
After a few minutes of waiting, turn off the virtual machine and edit it a little more
You go to where your virtual machine is stored to customize the vmx file
This file stores your virtual machine configuration
You scroll down and customize the network configuration again from e1000 to e1000e
This is to make the virtual machine discoverable by the Synology Assistant software
Then you save the configuration before closing the file
Next don't forget to check the network configuration on your VMWare hypervisor
You should make sure that your virtual machine configuration is being configured in bridged mode
Next, you start the virtual machine and use Synology Assistant to find the NAS device in your network
You wait until the virtual machine finishes booting
Maybe you'll fail the first time, but it's okay you'll find it the second or third time
Here I found a Synology NAS device with ip address 10.11.32.12 and it is not installed
You check the device information to download the appropriate operating system
Next you install it almost like real devices
Like here I have to download DSM 7.1 42661
You go to the Synology download center and download the required device file
DSM 7.1 42661
A file with the extension pat will be downloaded to your computer
Next you upload this file to your virtual machine
It will take about 10 minutes to install the operating system for Synology NAS so please wait patiently
There is a limitation of this method that you cannot update to a newer operating system
To do that you have to replace the loader and also need many steps to do it
With the test environment it is not necessary
And finally you have a Synology NAS device on VMWare hypervisor
Here you can communicate with your network, store data, install great Synology applications
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