VMs on Synology?

[m.ardito]

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

Hi mir,

qnap and sinology have so many models out there, varying from simple 1 disk units to rack mountable 8/12 disks, with 2+ eth cards, 10gbps available, xeon cpus so, they are quite powerful: i have 2 of the qnap rack models, and run shared storage on them, in raid5 (and sw raid, but sufficient for my setup).
An i plan to keep them in sync in some way to add redundancy. Those qnap units also serve smb space in the lan, and could also offer most needed lan services, through installable apps (like apache or mysql). Sometimes I think the only thing those units are missing is virtualization... you never know.

I've never had a synology, but I hear that someone prefers its web gui or some other platform feature.

Your experience with those backup units are probably only with "home/soho" models, with a few disks, and slower cpus. Those are usable for backups and small home/soho services, but not suitable for higher loads. I'm not suggesting you to stay on qnap, choose whatever you like or need, but keep in mind that there are also "pro" model, as I said above, in your choice, and could be the same for other vendors too.

Marco

 

[mir]

Hi Marco,

All what you write is true. My Qnap at home is a home/soho model but at work we have Qnap enterprise models so I know them too. My reason for maybe trying a Synology is of pure interest to see what it provides since I have no knowledge what so ever with Synology but I am tempted to try it because some of my colleagues praises it for having a better interface than Qnap.