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Storage and backup of virtual machines on QNAP NAS

... can become a platform for virtualization. You can run powerful virtual ... can work for them as iSCSI/NFS storage. If the site ... seconds, and is native to virtualization. Since it is completely controlled ... Motherboard: ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Network Card: Intel X520-DA2 Memory: 64GB ... a hypervisor with a powerful virtualization system, it cannot restore a ... machine on which Hyper-V virtualization is selected as the role ... and Conclusions When choosing a backup solution, IT professionals usually ask ...
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Synology UC3200 Review: affordable dual-controller iSCSI storage

... from Synology, marketed as iSCSI storage for virtualization hosts. We will test ... surveillance, a file backup system, and a backup system for servers and ... if this controller was a backup and did not have active ... Motherboard: ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Network Card: Intel X550-T2 Memory: 48GB ... service outages. Working on a backup controller in read mode is ... the main controller to the backup controller is characteristic of much ... on an iSCSI-attached volume, the switching time to the backup controller ...
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QNAP TS-2483XU-RP review: 24-disk head unit NAS

... are closely related to data backup and storage. One of the ... both regular file folders and iSCSI LUNs, and in the snapshot ... to mount a snapshot in iSCSI target to work with multiple ... Motherboard: ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Network Card: Intel X520-DA2 Memory: 48GB ... 256Gb OS: Windows Server 2016 iSCSI Connection LUN file system - NTFS ... traditional synthetics when connecting via iSCSI for a disk formatted in ... is not suitable: for serious virtualization for machine learning/artificial intelligence ...
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QSAN XN8012R Storage Review: Virtualization + ZFS Onboard!

Many specialists of small organizations clearly understand the advantages of ZFS and can justify to the management the savings from software LZ4 compression and deduplication when buying a new storage system, but there were no inexpensive solutions for this file system. But a holy place is never empty, and QSAN decided to combine in one device everything that we love in Linux and everything that we value in ZFS. Today, many technical experts believe that ZFS is something that works only ...
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Aquantia AQtion AQC107 vs Intel X550-T2 - comparing 10G interfaces in iSCSI and CIFS file operations

Aquantia network chips are increasingly being distributed as an expensive home or low-cost business solution for 10-Gigabit networks. We compared the company's youngest chip with Intel's flagship network card when working with file operations, and the results were amazing. The young company Aquantia was not known to anyone 2-3 years ago, and today its network controllers have become a passport to the world of 10-Gigabit networks for thousands of gamers around the world. This brand entered ...
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Huawei OceanStor 2200 V3 review - entry-level block virtualization storage

This SAN storage system has many features that make it worth paying attention to. First of all, this is the RAID 2.0+ technology, thanks to which in our testing, RAID 5 survived a fall of 6 drives! In addition, this is an extended work with snapshots, because each of them can be mounted as a separate LUN, automatic LUN reduction and much more. Huawei storage systems are relatively new, and today the Chinese manufacturer successfully competes with brands such as Dell/EMC, Netapp and HPE. ...
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How to distinguish 10-Gigabit network card Intel X520-DA2 from Chinese fakes

10-Gigabit networks are becoming more common even in the simplest IT projects, where there is a desire to save every ruble. Intel network cards are used more often than any other, but unfortunately, in China they have learned to fake them. It is easy to distinguish the original from a fake, and this is known to both customers and contractors. We will tell you how not to buy a fake network card, where fakes of such equipment come from, what you need to pay attention to when buying, and what you ...
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Thecus N5500 Review: enterprise 5-disk file server

This file server will be of interest to large companies. It is assembled on the basis of a fast Intel Celeron M processor with a frequency of 1.6 GHz, it has support for a reliable file system ZFS, two network ports with aggregation, the ability to stack and connect via USB to a computer. But the most interesting thing is dynamic iSCSI partitioning, which will save space for iSCSI connections. We have already covered Thecus file servers. This company is interesting for its non-standard ...
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5 performance indicators of corporate backup

Finding out if your backup and restore systems are working well is much more difficult than just knowing how long the backup process takes. Meeting the baseline requirements is a prerequisite for properly evaluating your system to determine if it is performing well or needs to be redesigned. Finding out if your backup and recovery systems are working well is much more difficult than just knowing how long the backup process takes. Meeting the baseline requirements is a prerequisite for ...
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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 ...