Synology NAS Setup Guide 2022 #8 - Setting Up an iSCSI Target and a Storage LUN

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Synology NAS DSM 7 and Setting Up an iSCSI Target and LUN with your Windows 10 PC
00:15 - What a Storage LUN is Better than a Mapped Network Drive
01:28 - Setting Up Your iSCSI Target & LUN
06:50 - Connecting your LUN to your Windows PC, with iSCSI Initiator
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[@R1PPA-C]

Thank you for the E-mail pointing me here, For some reason when I mailed you Windows was failing to connect, even with chaps disabled, but 2 weeks later I came back, did another reset of my DNS 1550-04 and I'm IN !!!!! Thank You Thank You !!

[@skindude9251]

Thank you so much! Looked everywhere for this solution for storing my Dropbox folder on my new NAS and your guide told me everything I needed. Brilliant!!😍

[@chromerims]

Excellent, thank you 👍 2:19 --- target vs LUN brief description 3:23 --- thick vs thin provisioning

[@llpick3415]

Wonderful explanation. Good job and now I understand LUN

[@chromerims]

Nice video 👍 Folks should be aware that an iSCSI target is not shareable to a second client PC initiator, in the sense that most ordinary users would expect. Indeed, getting a second PC to access the same target is an advanced topic involving clustering. Kindest regards, neighbours and friends.

[@chrisipad4425]

Great video with easy to follow instructions! Thanks!

[@MisterPikol]

BEAUTIFUL tutorial, thank you !!!!

Man! Thank you for this series of videos! Much appreciate it!

[@aravindbalakrishnan4254]

Very Thank You Sir for the informative solution.

[@ShafiqKhan]

That's very helpful.... This will help me to store my Lightroom Catalogue on a iScsi Target as it doesn't support mapped network drives

[@gregarious_one]

Well explained! Waiting to try this on my new 1512+.

[@gregarious_one]

Worked like a charm, thank you!

[@davechristoffersen6633]

Brilliant video thanks for explaining iscsi so well

[@jb51010]

Great video! helped out a lot thanks, pretty much same a version 6..

[@gomezadams9900]

I have to admit that I've selected many of your videos to get a better understanding of my synology DS918+ and what it's capabilities are. Although I feel that sometimes you're talking a bit too fast to follow along, I can always replay certain portions on the video which I couldn't fully understand. Now, you've made videos covering both Synology and QNAP NAS's; so it would be more helpful if you could also include the differences between Windows and MAC OS when doing a how to video of this type. I can't follow you when you're selecting certain functions on your Windows PC which Mac doesn't have.

[@RJ_Cormac]

👋 Getting really detailed, hopefully these are in a library.

[@jacobp7289]

Excellent explained. One question though. Is it necessary to set a fixed ID address on the synology, or possible to just write the network path?

[@chromerims]

Great video 👍 9:15 -- GPT vs. MBR . . . GPT is the right recommendation. The reason being is that GuidPT has more functionality and flexibility with drive partitioning schemes. As the (msft windows) world has largely moved on from MBR, only older vintage CPU, ROM and O/S combos are incompatible with GPT. But even today one may select MBR to initialise a drive, whether for storage or boot with a resultant 2TB maximum capacity. Kindest regards, neighbours and friends.

[@sgateman1]

Agreed. GPT (GUID Partition Table) is by far a better partitioning scheme. It is actually really brilliant and has a multitude of benefits that MBR does not allow, such as more than 4 primary partitions (if i recall up to 128 and no need for extended partitions), a backup partition table at the end of the disk to protect against failure, and more partitioning options. MBR can still be used on any drive (limited to 2TB usage), but there's no reason unless you require backwards compatibility.

[@chromerims]

@@sgateman1 👍

[@TechnowulfTV]

Great video! can you also make a video how to connect Synology LUNs to Ubuntu Linux. More Power!!!

[@justinl2753]

great timing with this video! i am looking at which storage method is best for my qnap nas. thank you!!

[@a_mouse6858]

Great video! But you didn't discuss defining a Host. When do you (and when do you not) need to define one?

[@rails-n-things]

Awesome - thanks!

[@airmakeup]

how do we view these new ISCSI drives on the actual NAS in say Synology File Station?

[@carltaylor1497]

Thank you. This was a great video that helped to clear up many of the mysteries of LUN / ISCSI for me. Did have a couple of questions though. 1. Is there an easy way for me to make these visible in a non PC situation. Such as for instance from my Nvidia Shield unit? 2. If I added 3 LUN's. Would it be possible to use them to create a RAID 5 or similar array? Thanks again for the great informative video. I think this is going to help several of my clients for accounting programs like Quickbooks / Sage 50 etc... where the program insists on the data being installed on a local PC etc... for sharing to other PC's on the network.

[@carltaylor1497]

This is great. But how do we view these new ISCSI drives on the actual NAS in say Synology File Station?

[@rippedgeek]

@NASCompares - is there a way to explore or browse the ISCSI target on the Synology itself? I've got a DS1621+ and can copy and move files from Windows to the ISCSI target, no problem, but I want to do some testing internal to the NAS and can't find any info on that whatsoever... I assume you must be able to, but am very new to ISCSI, so may be completely wrong. Thanks for the great videos!

[@sanskarsingh9538]

I am still looking for it till this day

[@patto2k358]

INNIT!

[@ElliotLamb]

I'm trying to do this with a PC that is in a physically different location. Is that even possible? I've created a LUN and accompanying iSCSI within DSM but keep getting 'Connection Failed' in the Windows initiator. I've tried using both my Synology's external IP address and DDNS link. Thanks for a helpful video, and in advance for any support here.

[@baskling7626]

You need to setup a VLAN to "convince" your NAS you're in the same local network. After that, It'll work

[@frailestrella]

would u fix that? i have same situation and i cannot connect from external network to my LUN in my home

[@Ppetelski]

I am looking for security configuration, did I miss it in previous episodes or it will be provided in future?

[@carlos_mann]

When adding a drive to the remote desktop, is there a way to allow for certain users to only be allowed to Read the files only off of the drive? Is that going to be set up from the beginning of what the user is able to do??

[@TazzSmk]

it's not a coincidence I was just trying to understand this last week, is there some easy answer to, if I should use NFS or iSCSI, accessed from MacOS ? I ruled out SMB because of slow performance over LAN, testing NFS with very good results nowadays (only inconvenience being lack of recycle bin)

[@dodgecrickets7862]

How dose ds918+ handle dsm 7 ? Any good?

[@Cmdr_Akmal]

Thanks!

[@jacobhack8219]

Would this method of connecting a nas make backblaze back up my nas. I know that they blocked normal network drives.

[@chrisbearden1331]

I wondered the same thing. Did you ever find a solution for this? I was surprised to see that synology's implementation of iscsi forces you to define the size of the iscsi storage in the beginning, which seems like a deal-breaker to me. The iscsi setups I've worked with in the past from other vendors used the entire volume available at the time, and didn't require you to have a separate "hard" coded space for this.

[@skipguenter3711]

What does this buy me that NFS doesn't provide?

[@aaronmello6295]

Block level storage vs file level

[@AlexHemeryck]

First

[@TheShellshock67]

MBR and GPT explaination is wrong....