{"id":326,"date":"2016-04-30T01:44:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T05:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ithinkvirtual.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2018-02-10T10:07:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T15:07:52","slug":"create-a-synology-vm-with-xpenology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ithinkvirtual.com\/2016\/04\/30\/create-a-synology-vm-with-xpenology\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Synology VM with XPEnology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Create a Synology VM with XPEnology<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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I’m a huge fan of Synology NAS systems, but I must say, they do often put a gaping hole in your wallet. \u00a0Well, fortunately the folks over at XPEnology<\/a> have created an alternative way for us to create your own Synology devices, whether it be deployed on a bare-metal system or as a virtual machine. \u00a0I currently own a few Synology NAS devices, but I love having the ability to spin up a working VM version quickly and with ease, for use in my nested lab environments.<\/p>\r\n

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In this post, I am going to show you how to create your very own Synology VM on VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion hypervisors. \u00a0As I mentioned previously, you can also deploy this onto a bare-metal system, but since I do not have a spare system to test this with, I will not cover that deployment. \u00a0So without any further hesitation, let’s get to it!<\/p>\r\n

Prerequisites:<\/p>\r\n