Hello all,
Do any of you use a synology device for vmware? I have a production virtual environment set up now with some dell equallogic sans and some r720 servers.
In addition, I have a development environment for our software development team - this consists of 2 dell poweredge 6950 (6-7 year old servers), 1TB of internal storage each, and they are connected to a 1TB lun on an equallogic san. This configuration is running fine for them, however, they are getting to a point where they require some more disk space. Rather than go out and get a $15k san for them (that will never fly here) - I was wondering if, because it is development, we could get them a synology device with a few TB of disk in it, and use it either as an iSCSI or NFS target for their vmware development environment.
Of course, I need this disk to perform at reasonable levels. It doesn't need to light up the charts, but if it is going to be so slow to the point where my coders won't use it, it won't solve my problem.
Anyone have any suggestions or previous experience?
thanks
sb