Do you ever plan on allocating storage to other servers? - Sean
> On Mar 25, 2015, at 9:18 AM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: > > ok, but if I group/cluster the 4x 1GB NICs, but the server only has 2x 1GB > NICs , isn't that like trying to put 4 cars on a 2 lane street ? limiting the > bandwidth at 2GB? > > > > > > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Synology LUNS and iscsi > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:44:34 +0000 > > 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 >
