For work I am looking at getting a NAS solution too hook up to our two vSphere 5.0 hosts. This will be used as a back end for our disaster recovery server so it does not need to be the fastest thing in the world.
I am looking at a Synology DS1812+ currently, and planning on loading it up with 3TB drives running raid-6. That should give around 16TB usable of space; 10TB will be dedicated to the VM's the other 6TB will be user data (most likely broken up and attached to a few of the "file server" VM's).
Will the DS1812+ be good for this? I would prefer to build one myself as I know I can do it cheaper, but the boss wants a pre-built.
I am looking at a Synology DS1812+ currently, and planning on loading it up with 3TB drives running raid-6. That should give around 16TB usable of space; 10TB will be dedicated to the VM's the other 6TB will be user data (most likely broken up and attached to a few of the "file server" VM's).
Will the DS1812+ be good for this? I would prefer to build one myself as I know I can do it cheaper, but the boss wants a pre-built.