Built for your SAN storage needs
Seamless storage integration
Compatible with leading solutions
Certified support for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Windows Server, OpenStack Cinder, and Citrix XenServer means Synology SAN storage is ready for practically any virtualization environment.
Explore virtualization-ready systems
Platform-native management
Manage storage from your existing environment. Synology’s system works with SMI-S-compliant interfaces, and Synology Storage Console enables application-consistent snapshots from vSphere and Windows Server.
Block storage for Kubernetes
Add persistent storage to your Kubernetes cluster with one of Synology's highly configurable data solutions. Provision, manage, protect and scale directly from your K8s management interface.
Storage protocols for deployment flexibility
| iSCSI / Fibre Channel | NFS | |
| Availability / Load Balancing | MPIO | NFS multipathing (NFS 4.1) |
VMware VAAI
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Windows ODX
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| Citrix iSCSI Storage Repository | - | |
| OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) | - | |
| Data Protection / Management Granularity | Datastore-level | VM-level |
| Security | CHAP (iSCSI) | IP-based |
| Use Cases | To achieve consistently high performance in larger deployments | For quicker setup and smaller deployments; easy file/folder-level management |
Built-in data protection
| Snapshot Replication | Hyper Backup | Synology High Availability | |
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| RPO | Minutes | Hours | Instant |
| RTO | Seconds | Hours | Seconds |
| Protection Level | Shared Folder / LUN | File / Shared Folder / LUN | Whole system |
| Destination |
Another Synology system |
Synology systems / External devices / Public cloud services |
Another Synology system |
| Failover to replica | (Manual) |
- (Requires restoring from the replica first) | (Automatic) |
| Transfer differential data only | |||
| Encryption | (in transit) | - | |
| Compression | - | - | |
| Versioning | (For shared folders only) | - | |
| Use cases | For most use cases that require faster backup/restore time or resume services quickly from a replica when the primary storage fails. Suitable for users who wish to keep multiple versions with minimal performance impact. | For archiving cold data with higher data efficiency. Suitable for users who don't require fast backup/restoration or those who wish to back up to third-party devices. | For mission-critical services that require real-time synchronization to minimize any potential data loss as well as automatic failover without human intervention. |
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