worked like a charm. needed this as i'm setting up bacula on my 3 VMs (windows server, oracle linux and macOS) to backup to the now mounted NAS datastore via NFS
Thanks for this! I'm planning on setting up something like this within a few months. I currently have 3 physical ESXi servers. I'm planning on retiring 2 of them since they are old. My vision is to use my Synology as a NAS for my Plex server that I will run on the new ESXi host. My plan is to somehow migrate all data from the media drive I have on that old ESXi host to the Synology NAS. Then, I'll create a new Plex vm on the new host and have it point to the NAS. That's my thinking, so hopefully it works out. Its probably way overkill for what I really need it, but hey, I like to play around and tinker with this stuff.
good video... but first i gotta upgrade my network.. slow transfers over 100Mbits Eithernet-Over-Power devices won't help me one bit.. Does memory have to be 4Gig if its only mounting NFS share though?
I would love to implement thisnfory business but I currently have server 2012 can I just come this and install it on the massage ? Will rdp be ok with 10 users ?
Hi James, thanks for your comment. It depends on what you are wanting to use the NAS for. Both technologies will work fine. NFS will be available as a file share if you want to access it from another server, while iSCSI is block based. I would say if you are getting started go with NFS. Hope that helps
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worked like a charm. needed this as i'm setting up bacula on my 3 VMs (windows server, oracle linux and macOS) to backup to the now mounted NAS datastore via NFS
Crystal clear! Thanx m8!
Thanks! I was ALMOST there, I think what I was doing wrong was using the host name, I put in the IP per your video and I'm up and running
Thanks for this! I'm planning on setting up something like this within a few months. I currently have 3 physical ESXi servers. I'm planning on retiring 2 of them since they are old. My vision is to use my Synology as a NAS for my Plex server that I will run on the new ESXi host. My plan is to somehow migrate all data from the media drive I have on that old ESXi host to the Synology NAS. Then, I'll create a new Plex vm on the new host and have it point to the NAS. That's my thinking, so hopefully it works out.
Its probably way overkill for what I really need it, but hey, I like to play around and tinker with this stuff.
Great instruction, greetings from Poland
Glad it was helpful!
liked, this worked for me nice tutorial keep doing!
Emilio, would you mind doing a “Visio-type” topology/network config diagram for this setup, pls?
Great video, brief, to the point and best of all worked first time :)
Thanks, glad you liked it
I used to use NFS between VMware ESXi and Synology but now I am using iSCSI.
Did you notice any improvements?
Any improvements? txs
synology is so easy! this was too!
they are great!
Huge help, thank you. Liked and Subscribed! Looking forward to watching more of your videos.
Awesome, thank you! Appreciate the sub
Good job thanks.
good video... but first i gotta upgrade my network.. slow transfers over 100Mbits Eithernet-Over-Power devices won't help me one bit..
Does memory have to be 4Gig if its only mounting NFS share though?
Hope you get to 100k subs
Worked! Thank you!
Glad it helped!
Good one, cheers mate!
Glad it helped. Thanks for the comment.
Thanks so much worked perfectly
glad it helped! thanks for the comment.
Thank you so much 😁 Merci
You're welcome 😊 Thanks
Love your Vids
good
Could the NAS storage participate in a vSAN?
If i have 3 nodes and 2NAS servers.
Can i even use the NAS storage in the vSAN?
I would love to implement thisnfory business but I currently have server 2012 can I just come this and install it on the massage ? Will rdp be ok with 10 users ?
You are still running your VMs on ESXi actually.)
Is it better to use NFS instead of iSCSI when connecting a Synology NAS a VMware Datastore?
Hi James, thanks for your comment. It depends on what you are wanting to use the NAS for. Both technologies will work fine. NFS will be available as a file share if you want to access it from another server, while iSCSI is block based. I would say if you are getting started go with NFS. Hope that helps
@@TechWithEmilio Thanks!