VMs on Synology?

[longhair]

In the book Mastering Proxmox, it talks about storing & running the VMs on a FreeNAS server.

Is it possible to use a Synology NAS server instead of FreeNAS?

 

[christophe]

Hi,

Yes it is!

At least via nfs. I haven't tried iSCSI on Syno for such project, but nfs is OK.

Syno is rock solid, we use it for backups (vzdump) without any issue.

Christophe.

 

[m.ardito]

I use QNAP ts809/ts879 since years, both nfs, iscsi.
Reliable for my workload and case. Of course a good tested firmware helps, on the NAS.

Marco

 

[mygeeknc]

If you're using Synology for backups, what are you using for production storage?

 

[christophe]

Hi,

Syno for backups yes, and for production storage Dell md3220i, hp p2000 iscsi, equallogic.

Christophe.

 

[mygeeknc]

Does the Dell solution do just iSCSI or does it do NFS as well?

 

[spirit]

Does the Dell solution do just iSCSI or does it do NFS as well?

I known that last equalogic updates have added the nfs support. But historicaly, it's iscsi only.

 

[christophe]

iSCSI only for all SANs. Sometimes a front server sharing via nfs an iSCSI Lun.

 

[raj]

Hiya,

I use a synology ds412+ using iscsi for production and a second one for backup.

I have nic teaming going to a cisco 3750G switch.

I must admit i have 1 dc and an exchange and an application server and about 10 linux servers mostly web servers.

The performance is not bad at all but then again the boxes are not under heavy load.

I have installed proxmox at another site were its in production with one win 2003 and exchange 2003 on the same box and some application and again it works well. That one is on a synology ds411j

Hope this helps,

Raj

 

[mir]

What kind of raid do you use in your synologies, raid 5 or 10?

 

[raj]

What kind of raid do you use in your synologies, raid 5 or 10?

Raid 5

usingdisk 1,2and 3 and just a volume on disk 4 for daily .lzo backup

I do nightlu .z backups to the second nas using nfs there

 

[mir]

Have you tried the raid 6 option?

With raid 6 you can loose 2 disks without loosing data.

 

[raj]

Have you tried the raid 6 option?

With raid 6 you can loose 2 disks without loosing data.

Yes but do not want to much overhead and i do 2 backups a day and keep an eye on the system.

What synology u have?

 

[mir]

I don't have a synology. I have a qnap though, but I might be interesting in replacing that with a synology

 

[raj]

I don't have a synology. I have a qnap though, but I might be interesting in replacing that with a synology

what are you running on there how the performance

 

[mir]

Only using it for backup. It is a two disk model with raid mirror so there is no comparison to your synology.

 

[raj]

Only using it for backup. It is a two disk model with raid mirror so there is no comparison to your synology.

and what do you use for production storage or is it from the server itself?

 

[mir]

I have an Omnios box with ZFS for production storage.

 

[term]

I have an Omnios box with ZFS for production storage.

Are you using napp-it? Or just using the command line?

 

[mir]

Mostly command line for changes and napp-it for monitoring.