To the iscsi, I'm not familiar with Synology, but does it have a "group IP", AKA cluster IP, that you always access and works across all four NICs? If so, then you will likely use that group IP as your target. If it supports MPIO, you could then connect from both server NICs.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 9:07 AM To: NT Subject: [NTSysADM] Synology LUNS and iscsi 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
