Hi all,
Just got the 8 bay synology in, I Have 5 drives in raid10 with a hot spare
(total usable 12TB)
I see that I have the Option for Block-level or File level LUNS, I see that
the file level has more options (thin provisioning among others)
This NAS will only house data (will not run VM's off them , not yet at least) a
large portion of the will be media (Video footage)
Q1. Does anyone recommend or advise one format (Block-Level File-Level) over
the other?
Q2. Second question may seem dumb but I have never used iscsi before so bear
with me & forgive my ignorance
The Synology has 4x 1GB nic ports, the Hyper V server (w2012) only has 2x 1GB
ports, as this will be an iscsi target am I correct in thinking that unless my
server gets 2 more NIC cards, there will be no benefit to using the 4 NICs on
the Synology?
My thought is (assuming the above is accurate) would be to create 2 LUNS , one
for iscsi target, using 2 NICs, and second one for direct access to Synology
using the other 2 NICs.
TIA
Jean-Paul Natola
