Globalsan iSCSI initiator vs Synology DS1511+ multipath I/O

[Glenn Venghaus]

Hi Jordy,

Sorry but not running the Synology in multipath anymore. Have been using it in my described setup for some time very effectively , with super performance, under the SNS beta driver, but a lot has changed in the last 2 years. Mainly that i had to move my OSX versions (clients and servers) up due to other software requirements. Lately even up to the (crappy osx vista) Yosemite for my Davinci 12 resolve workstation.
The amazing guys (best support i ever had from any software company period) at SNS explained me in detail that it was not possible anymore to keep maintaining that special version they build for me in parallel with the (not compatible) main stream. Very understandable.
So i moved on and now use the Synology’s as secondary storage (for volume and not for speed ) and have it regularly sync with a big software raid-0 (for pure speed) self build thunderbolt array on a mac mini server hosted via xtarget to the clients , which get line speed (200 mbps on 2x fast ethernet) . Still for a fraction of the cost of off the shelf systems, which is sort of my thing 😉 But even off the shelfs are getting down in price now, which is a good thing.
So not everything from one system (speed and reliability) but leveraging 2 separate systems. With a high enough sync frequency between the 2 (+ extra offline DR and cloud backups) the risk is minimal and i have been running it nonstop for more then a year now.

Almost upgraded to a trashcan based system but thank god i did not. (just lucky as a placed order on the very first model fell through). Forums are full of issue on the graphics cards (davinci resolve heavily affected), so for now holding on till i “have” to move on and something better comes around. Eyieng multi cpu hackingtoshes like Hp 840’s etc , but still not stable enough.
And so far my low cost mac mini render farm still works like a charm. (no thanks to apple as almost had to rewrite everything back to working order which they stupefyingly decommissioned, like the qmaster cluster for example and final cut server , which is still buzzing around here on 10.9.5 thanks to my hacking skills and doing all my automated workflows like nothing on the market)

Anyway i digress. So no. Sorry.

[Steve Chandler]

Wait, SNS was supplying you with a custom build of globalSAN? Jeez. SNS is pretty rad.

[Glenn Venghaus]

Yep impressive support and super friendly guys.