IT Roundtable 7/14/2014

Synology Deep Dive

Raspberry Pi Overview

Overview

• Who is Synology?

• Why wound I want their devices?

• How does it fit into my business?

• What else can they do?

Who is Synology?

• Synology was founded in 2000 by former MS employees Cheen Liao & Phillip Wong. They wrote their original OS built off BSD using Fastora NAS hardware. Since then they have created their own hardware to work with their DSM (Disk Station Manager) software which is the heart of all Synology products. Approx. 250 employees world-wide.

So what do they make?

• Synology makes storage devices• Rack Mounted – “RackStation”• Tower / Desk – “DiskStation”

What makes Synology Different?

The Software!

•The Linux based DSM software is the heart of every Synology Product

•The Community support for Synology products is incredible

What kind of storage are we talking?

• SATA Disks (mostly)• Support for Raid 0/1/5/6/10• Support for SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid)

• Based on Linux MD software raid

• Support for SSD Caching• Support for Link Aggregation• Lower energy use purpose built (atom/arm)

Why would I want their devices?

• Do you have a need for ‘cold’ or ‘dead’ storage in excess of a few TB?

• Do you have a need for a storage back-end for your VM environment?

• Do you need a way to provide storage to a test lab? NFS/iSCSI/CIFS?

• Do you have any other random storage needs that don’t need to be on expensive 10k or 15k disks?

How does it fit in business?

• Perfect for branch or remote offices• Provides many network features

• DHCP Server• DNS Server• VPN Server• CIFS Shares• FTP / SFTP / WebDav Server• Built in Anti-Virus scanning for shares• Provides backups

• First party software for Windows• Integrated Time Machine for Mac

How does it fit in business?

• Perfect for Backups in your main site• Can connect to your environment via

• Active Direction Authentication (joins your domain)• iSCSI • NFS• CIFS Shares

How do I access it?

• Web interface

• First party phone / tablet apps

Can you back it up?

• Yes through multiple options• Crashplan • Amazon S3• Amazon Glacier• HiDrive• Synology HA • BitTorrent Sync• Rsync

Can you expand it?

• Synology offers expansion chassis• 2 Bay• 4 Bay• 5 Bay• 12 Bay

• My DS1512+ can be expanded to 15 disks

Test Lab / Dev Lab

• Need additional fast storage for a test lab but don’t want to spend big money?• Synology Disk/Rack Stations allow SSD

Caching for improved performance• iSCSI + NFS

Can it do anything else?

• First Party Extra’s• Host Video files through Video Station• Host Photos through Photo Station• Host iTunes shared server• Download files for your via FTP / Torrent• Manage IP Camera’s with Surveillance Station (2

camera with base license)• Record TV• Output to Bluetooth speakers• Provide wireless• Google Cloud Print / IOS Printing

Okay what else?

• 3rd Party Extra’s• Joomla• Mail Server• OpenERP• SugarERP• OSTicket• Wordpress• Asterix• Tomcat• Mumble Server• Git• Owncloud• MineCraft• Plex

What do they cost?

• Come Diskless• Diskstation:

• 2 Bay Start about 300$• 4 Bay Start about 475$• 5 Bay Start about 775$• 6 Bay Start about 975$

• Rackstation:• 4 Bay Start about 600$• 12 Bay Start about 1800$

Demo

• Live Synology Demo:• https://demo.synology.com:5001/webman/index.cgi• Username / Password : Admin / Synology

Phone Demo

Bomgar connect into android phone demo

Raspberry Pi

Tony King Pi Demo

Questions?

Thank you for coming!