Synology UC3200 Review: affordable dual-controller iSCSI storage
First dual-controller storage from Synology, marketed as iSCSI storage for virtualization hosts. We will test how quickly it switches between controllers and how it recovers back.
Perhaps since Synology released its first rackmount NAS, at all press conferences the company has been asked when will they release a 2-controller solution? The manufacturer himself explained for a long time that the company has a High Availability solution for organizing NAS into a cluster, that in the modern ...
Testing Synology Flashstation FS3017 flash array in virtual environments
With the release of a dual-socket storage system with 24 SSD drives, Synology announced: here is our product on which you can build fast high-availability systems and hyper-converged virtual systems, where storage and server are combined in one device. It is one of the fastest NAS devices to go on sale today. Promised performance - up to 500K IOPS in 4K Random Read, minimum power consumption like two light bulbs, horizontal and vertical scalability, including available expansion components. We ...
Exploring SSD and RAM caching in Synology servers: how to get the most speed
No matter how beautiful IOPS the manufacturers promise us, no matter what synthetic tests show, the real speed of a typical virtual machine depends on how your server is configured and how the application itself works. Let's explore the impact of different types of caching on Synology NAS.
Toshiba, a major manufacturer of flash drives and hard drives,
forecasts
only 10% of corporate data will be stored on SSDs in the year, although it seems that all storage manufacturers have forgotten ...
Video Surveillance Synology Surveillance Station CMS for Large Companies with Branch Offices
For cases where you need to build an entire network of IP cameras, Synology offers Surveillance CMS technology, which allows you to manage all your NVRs based on Synology NAS from a single window, dynamically allocate licenses to connected cameras, as well as set up backup video surveillance servers in case of hardware failure and move IP cameras between them.
In large organizations, there is often a need for centralized video surveillance management in branch offices, remote offices or ...
Synology MailPlus - testing a failover mail cluster on NAS
In this article, we will explore the capabilities of a local mail server that you can configure on your Synology NAS, test the speed, and look at anti-spam methods.
E-mail is by far the most hack-resistant means of communication, more reliable than `` no one knows how to earn free messengers", and you can set up your own mail server in your office.
Your mail server is:
Your antivirus
Your antispam
Your privacy
Your protection and resiliency
Your web interface is ad-free
(in a ...
Synology Active Backup for G Suite/Office 365: back up cloud data locally
If in 2017 we backed up ourselves to the cloud, then starting from 2018 we back up the cloud to ourselves to protect our calendars, mail and contacts from blocking any messengers, disconnecting accounts and others misfortunes. Synology has a great tool for backing up Google and Microsoft services, which we'll test. Since we use such business-friendly products as Office 365, Google Drive and Calendar, Gmail and Shared Folders in G-Suite, we need to make sure that this data is safe.
The ...
Big test Synology Active Backup for business - recovering from backup in 11 seconds!
Synology now has a free solution to back up and restore all of its infrastructure, including virtual machines, desktops, Windows servers, and NAS. We tested all its features, measured the speed and evaluated the pros and cons of this package.
In 2010, the founder of Veeam Software, Ratmir Timashev, said in one of his interviews that the main thing for backups is the recovery process, how fast, easy and reliable it is. Today Veeam software solutions have become the de facto standard in large ...
Synology VMM Pro - testing failover virtualization cluster
Synology is expanding the capabilities of its hypervisor and in the Pro version it is possible to create a failover cluster. We tested non-stop migration, crash recovery and also showed how BTRFS can save disk space when using a dozen virtual machines. Traditionally for Synology, every step here is intuitive and logical.
Today any small company has its own IT resources, which grow along with the growth and development of the company. One or two services can still be kept on a dedicated ...
Synology Virtual Machine Manager hypervisor - first step into converged architectures
Synology has released a package that turns storage into a host for virtual machines with easy cluster setup, virtual machine snapshot support, and setup in just a few clicks. You can even run the DSM operating system itself in a virtual environment to create multitenant services within your organization.
Synology
, already a well-known system manufacturer to our readers data storage class SmB/SOHO, has been making steps towards the Enterprise segment for quite some time. In 2017, high- ...
Synology small business 12-nay NAS review - RackStation RS2414 +
Synology brings to market the small and medium office storage solution, RS2414 +. It is a 12-drive rackmount NAS that can be expanded to 24 HDDs when a disk shelf is attached. It is built on the basis of an Intel Atom processor with a frequency of 2.13 GHz, which allows keeping the price of the product around 82 thousand rubles, which in itself is already unusual. For this money, you get the most modern operating system, connection via 4 network interfaces, USB 3.0 and all the functionality that ...
