Run AI on your Synology
A ways back, Synology was kind enough to send me a DS923+ to test out. I've used a DS1817+ in my lab for quite some time now, so a unit with an upgraded CPU was welcome. The first thing I…
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May 8, 2024
Synology in the Homelab – NFS 3 vs 4.1
Recently, I purchased a Synology 1817+ to be used as storage for my homelab. Previously, I was using an older, and much slower Synology, RS812, as well as a running vSAN on my single host. While vSAN performance was great,…
March 6, 2018
All Your Protocols Are Belong To Us
In the storage wars, we typically hear about block vs file, iSCSI vs Fibre Channel, SAN vs NAS, and so on. The truth is, none of that really matters; at least, not as much as some make it out to.…
November 18, 2016
Why VSAN All-Flash is the right choice
VMware's HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) solution is VSAN - or Virtual SAN. It's a kernel based solution built right into the ESXi Hypervisor, that allows each server to consume local storage, and pool it together and share it back out to…
September 18, 2016
VSAN Storage Profile Missing
Recently, I was moving my lab away from the VSAN beta code, and onto the ESXi 5.5 update 1 bits. I started fresh with my hosts, and simply upgraded my vCenter server. However, I ran into an issue once…
April 15, 2014
VSAN Announcement and Release
During the vmware.com/now event today, VMware announced some exciting news! Here's a quick rundown of some main points. VSAN will be Generally Available the week of March 10th! VSAN Licensing and pricing will be announced at GA Now scalable to…
March 6, 2014
VSAN – Installation
Installation of VMware's Virtual SAN (VSAN) couldn't be easier. No, really! To start with, in my lab environment, I have 4 servers that will participate in the VSAN cluster, and 3 of which will provide storage resources to the VSAN…
January 23, 2014