Initially, I posted this question to the QNAP forum here, however, I ended up logging a ticket with QNAP support. Apart from the awkward time zone difference between Taipai and London, they were very helpful and resolved the issue. Thank…
CrashPlan: Unable to connect to the backup engine
Make sure both Windows and QNAP components are at the same version. e.g. 3.6.3 (May 2014). Make sure the entry: serviceHost={QNAP IP Address} has correct IP and is uncommented (no # at the beginning of the line). Located in: “C:\Program…
ESXi: iSCSI LUNs disappear after rebooting storage device
Refer to: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1038065 Most of these steps can’t be done on a production system. Ping test: From QNAP ssh, ping IP of iSCSI trunk group address (192.168.70.3). From QNAP ssh, ping IP of iSCSI port group on ESXi (192.168.70.1 and…
QNAP: Logitech Media Server Upgrade (TS-670)
How to upgrade. Download tarball from http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/index.php. Currently 7.7 stream. For TS-670: “Logitech Media Server: Unix Tarball (for Perl 5.8-5.18, i386, x86_64, i386 FreeBSD, ARM EABI, PowerPC)” Tip: From QNAP CLI, use wget: wget http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/7.8/sc/8df5e68/logitechmediaserver-7.7.4-1397251079.tgz Browse to http://nas:9099. Click Status…
QNAP: Joining to a Windows Server 2012 Domain
Issue I recently installed a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller and started to experience issues with accessing shares on the QNAP (TS-670, 4.0.5). I attempted to re-join it to the domain where it failed. “Googling” SAMBA / 2012 didn’t…
QNAP: Installing CRASHPLAN
Read about CRASHPLAN here. The almost free, unlimited, cloud backup solution. The following details how to install CRASHPLAN on a QNAP NAS device. As mentioned in my other article, the system requires two clients. One on a Windows PC and…
QNAP: Expanding a Volume / RAID migration (4.0.5)
Apologies for the Word stuff, but I couldn’t face re-doing all those screenshots for Blogger. SkyDrive gave better results that Google drive. Can you believe Google removed the “Publish to blog” feature from Drive, and I’ve only ever got the…
ESX & QNAP
NFS Shares don’t reconnect after ESX reboot There seems to be an issue when an ESX host is rebooted whilst connected to a QNAP filer where, once the reboot completed, all guest VMs show as Unknown X (inaccessible). On further…
Unable to browse to QNAP NAS from Windows Server 2008 R2 “The specified network name is no longer available.”
Problem I have a small network consisting of an AD domain controller, QNAP and ESX. I deploy my VMs using WDS. I found that some of my Windows Server 2008 servers, were unable to navigate to the QNAP windows shares…
CrashPlan and QNAP
Crashplan + is an (almost free) unlimited cloud backup solution. When I say almost free, it is so cheap, it might as well be. Currently $4/month for unlimited storage. It knocks the spots off Amazon S3, ElephantDrive, SYMFORM and many others. There’s backup…