Surveillance Station allows you to move licenses from one Synology NAS or NVR to another either through a deleting and adding process, or through a migration process. In the following paragraphs, Synology NAS or NVR products will be referred to as Synology products, the product where licenses are removed will be referred to as the…
DetailsIf you have trouble signing in to your Synology Account or encounter difficulties during registration, please check out the solutions below that address your situation. Contents Login Issues My login authentication failed. My account is locked because of too many failed login attempts. The login message tells me my account does not exist. I can’t…
DetailsOverview iSCSI is a protocol to facilitate SCSI-based storage commands to be sent over ubiquitous network structures. Using the iSCSI target service provides an illusion that a hard drive is locally attached to a computer, and will be managed by a local computer’s operating system. In reality, the newly added disk is a virtual drive…
DetailsIf you encounter difficulties when using Active Backup for Business, please check out the solutions or answers below that address your situation. Contents General issues Why can’t I find Active Backup for Business in Package Center of my Synology NAS? How many devices can I back up concurrently with Active Backup for Business? Can I…
DetailsOverview vMotion is one of the VMware vSphere functionality that moves running virtual machines from one physical server to another with no impact to end users and keeps your business running without any interruption. To deploy virtualization environment with vMotion capability, the multiple ESXi servers should share a common storage server with multiple sessions support.…
DetailsOne of the important functions of a Synology NAS is to serve as the storage destination for virtualization solutions. This article is going to explain how LUN snapshots are taken on Microsoft Windows Server and VMware. Snapshot Manager for Windows Server DSM begins to take a LUN snapshot. DSM takes snapshots in mirror mode. Mirror…
DetailsWith Virtual Machine Manager, you can run virtual machines on selected models of Synology NAS. This FAQ will guide you on how to calculate the number of virtual machines that you can run on your Synology NAS, with recommended numbers at the end of the article. Understanding Memory Requirements The number of virtual machines that…
DetailsInstalling Synology Guest Tool on your virtual machines in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) can help enhance their performance and make managing easier. After the installation, you will be able to do the following: Shut down/restart virtual machines in VMM Detect IP addresses of guest operating systems Take file system consistent snapshots (Refer to this article for more…
DetailsIf the error message shown in the image below appears when you are creating recovery media via Active Backup for Business Recovery Media Creator, it may be because your Windows operating system is incompatible with the format of your USB drive. To troubleshoot this issue, please format your USB drive by following one of the three…
DetailsThis article guides you through how to use Active Backup for Business to backup files from Microsoft Windows Server supporting the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) feature. By default, administrative shared folders with folder names containing the symbol $ (e.g., C$ or D$) do not support VSS for SMB File Shares. To backup volume C or D…
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