IT Roundtable 7/14/2014
Synology Deep Dive
Raspberry Pi Overview
Overview
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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 backend 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
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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
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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
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Crashplan
Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
HiDrive
Synology HA
BitTorrent Sync
Rsync
Can you expand it?
• Synology offers expansion chassis
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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
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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
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Joomla
Mail Server
OpenERP
SugarERP
OSTicket
Wordpress
Asterix
Tomcat
Mumble Server
Git
Owncloud
MineCraft
Plex
What do they cost?
• Come Diskless
• Diskstation:
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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!