I recently did some performance comparisons between NFS and iSCSI on a Synology DS723+ NAS. When creating the iSCSI LUNs from within the Synology, there is a ‘Space Allocation’ drop down that has two values: Thick Provisioning (better performance) and Thin Provisioning (flexible storage allocation). When selecting Thin Provisioning, a…
I recently resolved a rather odd issue in my home lab. I don’t fully understand how the symptoms and solution line up, but am writing this article for my future self… if the issue returns I’ll at least have notes on the previous steps. If you end up finding this…
After a recent post on Synology iSCSI vs NFS (https://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/virtualization/esxi-datastore-performance-battle-iscsi-vs-nfs-on-synology-nas-with-vaai/) I realized that I had overlooked some important performance characteristics and wanted to follow up to the post. First, the Synology DSM version being used during both tests was 7.2-64570 Update 1. I mention this as performance improvements for iSCSI…
I recently got my hands on a new Synology DS723+ and a couple of 4TB HDD disks for my home lab. My plan is to use this device as a backup target, either as a storage destination for my existing backup product, or perhaps switching to the Synology Active Backup…
Have you ever had a new site come online and want to validate that the items in a subscriber content library are in sync? Or experience some storage issues/corruption and want to make sure your sync’d library is still intact? This post will use a PowerCLI script to quickly validate…