Unboxing the Synology DS1512+

Specifications

Supported Clients

Windows XP onward
Mac OS X 10.5 onward
Ubuntu 9.04 onward

Virtualization

VMware vSphere 4
Microsoft Hyper-V
Citrix Ready

Supported Browsers

Chrome
Firefox
Internet Explorer : 8, 9
Safari (MAC) : 5

File System

EXT4
EXT3(External Disk Only)
FAT (External Disk Only)
NTFS (External Disk Only)

Networking Protocols

CIFS
AFP
NFS
FTP
WebDAV
iSCSI
Telnet
SSH
SNMP
VPN (PPTP, OpenVPN)

Storage Management

Max File System Size : 108TB
Max Internal Volume # : 512
Max iSCSI Target # : 32
Max iSCSI LUN # : 256
Supported RAID Type : Synology Hybrid RAID, Basic, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 5+Spare, RAID 6, RAID 10
RAID Migration : Basic to RAID 1, Basic to RAID 5, Basic to RAID 5+Spare, RAID 1 to RAID 5, RAID 1 to RAID 5+Spare, RAID 5 to RAID 5+Spare, RAID 5 to RAID 6
Volume Expansion with Larger HDDs : RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 5+Spare, RAID 6
Volume Expansion by Adding a HDD : RAID 5, RAID 5+Spare, RAID 6
Synology Expansion Unit Support : DX510

File Sharing Capability

Max User Accounts : 2048
Max Groups : 256
Max Shared Folder : 256
Max Concurrent CIFS/AFP/FTP Connections : 512

HDD Management

HDD Hibernation
S.M.A.R.T.
Dynamic Bad Sector Mapping

Management

Auto DSM Upgrade
Administrator Group
Push Notification – MSN/Skype/Mobile Devices
Email/SMS Notification
Customized User Quota
Syslog Support
DDNS Support
IPv6 Support
VLAN support
PPPoE
Hotspot
Resource Monitor
Connection Manager
UPS Management
Scheduled Power On/Off
Custom Management UI HTTP/HTTPS Ports

Security

FTP over SSL/TLS
IP Auto-Block
Firewall
Encrypted Network Backup over Rsync
HTTPS Connection

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Tags: DS1512+, NAS, Synology

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http://www.facebook.com/svein.brekke.5 Svein Brekke

Only VMWare vSphere 4 is on the specification list, what about vSphere 5 ?
(Great article by the way )
- http://www.vmguru.nl Erik Scholten
  
  I’ve asked Edwin to search for the Synology booth at VMworld and drop your question. If he can’t find them or they don’t have an answer we will contact our Synology contact. So we will get back on that.
- http://www.vmguru.nl/ Edwin
  
  I stopped by at the Synology booth at VMworld today, their answer is that they are working hard on it and hope to have it ready for the end of the year or at last January 2013
- http://www.vmguru.nl Erik Scholten
  
  Your wish is Synology’s command Yesterday Synology released version 4.1 of their DSM operating system which include vSphere 5 support for the DS1512+.