What's going on, guys?
It is Bernardo and you just saw a quick unboxing on Synology
DiskStation DS1522+
five bay NAS server.
So what comes inside the box
so you have your little keys right here which allows you to lock your bays.
Awesome.
This little bag right here was actually the screws to lock down your hard drive.
I actually went behind the scenes and inserted the hard drives
within the DS1522+,
you have your quick installation guide.
Synology actually hooked me up with two solid state
drives with 480 gigs.
These are the ones that I actually installed into the DS1522+.
They also sent me a ten gig network module.
Awesome.
Came with two Ethernet cables
and your power cable right here also.
And then last but not least, we have the beautiful DiskStation
DS1522+ five bays, which is right here, Boom, Awesome
right here. Bam.
I got already one of the solid state drives already hooked up,
already hooked it up behind the scenes because I'm getting this particular
NAS server ready to install and hook it up within a VMware
ESXi Server, what are some of the ports and features on this guy?
So on the front side, again, you have your five bays,
you have your LED lights right here, indicators,
you have a USB port and your power button.
Now on the backside right here
you have two fans, to keep it nice and cool.
You have two SATA ports, the power port.
This guy right here, depending on how you get it configured,
if you purchased the ten gig module, you can insert it here.
If not, you will have it clean
but already inserted the ten gig module for this device.
You have an additional USB port right here.
You have your four Ethernet port.
Now on the bottom side, you can actually hook up this device
with two M.2 solid state drives.
Super easy to just remove this guy right here and just upgrade
this device with two additional M.2 solid state drives.
All right.
So it's power
this guy on, hook up an Ethernet cable I already inserted
the two solid state drives that he came with.
Again, it came with 2 480 gig solid
state drives and let's configure it and configure our hypervisor
to store our virtual machine on this NAS server.
All right, so we finally got
the Synology DS 1522 plus hooked up with the solid state drives
and we are ready to hook it up with power.
So I got the power supply right here and I'm just going to plug in the power
supply, make sure you're inserting it correctly.
Bingo.
I hooked up my Ethernet to my Cisco switch.
So let's plug that there.
And the only things I plugged up so far would be my laptop and my Cisco switch,
untie this so I can plug in the Synology DS
1522 plus so we can configure it
and add it to our hypervisor, VMware hypervisor.
So let me.
Plug this guy in.
Awesome.
Power supply is actually located right here in the front.
So let's power this guy on. Awesome.
And let's take a closer look.
And configure it.
All right.
So it is time for us to configure our DiskStation
DS1522+ from Synology.
And the first thing that I did within my network was I use advanced IP scanner.
I ran a scan and I wanted to see
what's in my network and what IP address is assigned to all of my devices.
The reason
why is because as soon as I hook up this Synology NAS into my network,
it's configured to do DHCP and grab an IP address that is available.
Once I do that, I'm going to re-scan my network
and see if there's a new device and that will be the IP address of this synology.
All right. So I ran my scan again.
It looks like a new IP address popped up within my network.
It is 192.168.1.25.
If I open that guy up, it's going to take me to a website
to Synology web assistant, which is cool.
So let's open up our favorite browser type
in that IP address, hit enter and it's going to start loading up.
We're going to get this nice little welcome thing, so click on install.
Definitely going to leave everything as a default automatically.
Download the latest version from Synology website.
Click next you want to check off.
I understand that all the data on these drives
will be deleted and then click on Continue.
It's going to start installing the disk station manager.
It's going to start installing rebooting itself, and once it's done,
it's going to start launching the built in packages and you should get this.
So we're going to click on START.
We're going to provide a device name administrative account,
which will be your username password, then confirm it,
give all that information and make sure you check off .
Allow Synology NAS to display in web assistant blah blah blah.
Right hit next.
This is really up to you, but I picked the last option
which notify me when there is a DSM updates.
I want to manually download it and install it.
I don't want it to do automatic.
So click next here and from here I actually click on Skip
Summit and it should take you here.
Now the first thing that I did was because I don't like that IP address
and I want to keep both my DiskStations that I have in the same range.
So I clicked on control panel.
I wanted to change the IP address, so I clicked on network,
I went inside network interface,
I clicked on LAN one, clicked on edit
and I did use manual configuration and I just changed it to 119.
I clicked, okay, it's going to start applying the settings
and you get this nice little dialog applying network settings.
Don't freak out.
It's going to actually reload and log you back into your new IP address, 119.
From here I still got this window to create a storage pool and volume,
so I'm going to just click on Create now.
You're going to get this nice little wizard.
Click on Start and I got this warning.
You cannot perform this action.
But we just installed the hard drives.
What's going on? So I clicked.
Okay, here I went inside the HDD
and the SSD section
and I saw both hard drives there, both initialized.
I went back inside storage.
I click on Create now and I'm still getting the same problem.
So I said to myself, okay, let's click on View Drive Requirements
and there's a firmware update that needs to be done on these hard drives.
So let's go back inside that section where the hard drives are at.
Right click on one of them and then pick on firmware updates.
You're going to get this nice firmware update wizard.
So click on update and update again.
It's going to start updating the stuff.
Do not shut down the system. Don't touch it.
Leave it alone.
Once it's done, you should get this green checkmark.
It's updated, so click close.
Now go back inside storage and then click on Create.
Now click on Start Bingo.
Now for the raid type
because I'm doing this for you guys, I'm just going to go really simple.
I'm going to click on the dropdown menu and I'm going to do a raid one for now
and then click on Next.
I'm going to select both drives and in the future I'm going to be
upgrading these solid state drives to five four terabyte solid state drives.
I just have to do the order once I get some money
and then upgrade everything
from here.
We're going to click on next.
I'm definitely going to skip the check, but I kind of recommend doing
a performance drive check to make sure everything is healthy
on those hard drives and then click next here
for the modified allocated size.
I'm mixed it out, which is 436 click next here.
I'm going to leave the recommended file system as is click next.
Confirmation settings apply it.
Your going to click okay, because it's going to erase the hard drives.
Start loading and you're done.
Storage pool was created. Awesome.
RAID one configuration.
Pretty simple.
So we are going to close that up and I'm going to go to the upper left side
and click on the little menu or whatever you want to call it, I want to right
click on the SAN manager and click on Add to desktop
and let's double click on that and it's going to take you here.
We're going to create an iSCSI and I want to hook up this iSCSI, this LUN
into my hypervisor, my vSphere version eight that we created not too long ago.
We did a livestream.
First thing that we need to do is create a LUN so you got a nice little
hyperlink that says Create a LUN, so click on it.
Got this nice little window.
I'm going to leave everything as the default.
Yes, I created a one gig storage pool.
I know. Whatever.
But again, I'm going to be wiping this clean
and rebuilding it again with new hard drives.
So click next here.
I left it as a default. Click next here.
I'm going to allow all next
summary done saving.
First volume is completed.
One gig I went to iSCSI and the first thing that I typically do here is
I like to change the multiple sessions because by default it is disabled.
And if you have different hypervisors that are trying to access
this particular volume first come, first serve, right?
So I want have I want to have multiple machines to have access to this.
So we're going to click edit, go to advance and make sure
you check allow multiple sessions from one or more.
iSCSI initiators. Save it.
All right, so let's go into our hypervisor and log in.
Once you log in, we are going to go inside storage.
Within storage we're going to go to adapters.
Within adapters I'm going to select and click on software.
iSCSI by default it is disabled, so we're going to enable it,
give it some time and eventually it's going to load up all this.
Now on the second tab where it says name and alias, we're
going to highlight that right click on it and we're going to copy that, copy it.
Let's go back inside Synology and within Synology, let's go inside host
and click on Add, click start here,
give it a name and also click on Add initiator
and paste that initiator that you just copy from your hypervisor into there.
So you should get this name and then paste that initiator that you just got
from your hypervisor in there and then click next,
you definitely want to give, read and write to that LUN.
Click next there confirmation click done.
Good to go, go back inside your hypervisor and we need to assign
a static target as well as a dynamic target.
So let's click on add static target.
So what is our target?
Let's go back inside Synology now within Synology go inside iSCSI
and you're going to copy that IQN they give you the option right there.
Just click on copy IQN click okay here.
Go back inside your hypervisor and paste it there.
Now next thing that we need to do is add the IP address.
So click to add IP address and just enter the IP address of your synology.
Now, next thing that we need to do is add the dynamic target
and if you click on it,
it wants you to add the IP address, which would be the IP address of your NAS.
Once you're done with that, click on Save.
Once you here, click on re-scan so it could pick up the new iSCSI adapter.
Let's head back into our synology
and if you go to overview and click on iSCSI, you're going to see
that something is connected, which is awesome and this is a good thing.
This is a good sign.
It looks like everything is communicating with each other.
Awesome.
Let's go back inside our hypervisor and once the rescan is done,
you should see synology iSCSI disk, one gig, i know one gig.
Right, let's go inside data stores.
Let's click on new data store and you're going to get the wizard.
We're definitely going to create a new VMware Volume System Data Store.
Click next.
Give it a name, we only have one data store,
so by default it is selected for us.
So click next here.
I'm going to leave the partitioning as is click next.
It's ready to complete click finish.
It's going to give you a warning that everything is going to get wiped out.
Click Finish, click on Yes.
And then bam, that's it.
We created a data store
which allows us to create virtual machines within our Synology.
And that's it, guys.
Hopefully guys enjoy and I catch you guys on the next one.
Peace out.