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Hiya,
My Synology nas is a DS1819+ which I upgraded the memory on to 16GB ram (it can have a max of 32GB) and I believe I have 1 x 16GB stick in it (Would need to open case / find receipt to prove it). It is running 5 x 4TB WD Red drives setup in a RAID 5. It also have 4 network ports bonded together and on the switch side (HP 24 port switch) I have the 4 ports that connect to the nas setup as a trunk so should be giving me approx 4gbps between switch and nas so effectively should mitigate any slowness I hope as all clients are 1gbps so hoping will be ok. If I move all my VMs to it, I’ll take up approx 1TB of free space. My plan was to setup a iSCSI target/lun on the Synology box on existing volume (keep all existing data on the volume), then in vmware, add in the Synology iscsi target and then move all VMS to the Synology and then effectively mount the VMs from Synology into vmware and then vmware can then load then up and run them across the network. Effectively the NAS stores the VM’s and the server would simply run them from the synology nas, basically creating a central storage location.
Never tried this before so its totally new to me and maybe this isn’t very practical…
Kev
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