Which 8 bay unit? I am looking at the https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS2015xs for a future lab expansion.
Trying to spin up 10, 20 or 30 XenApp/XenDesktop VMs on my current 412+ is very painful. Thanks Webster From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 11:07 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
