Synology FlashStation FS2500

Reliable Storage for Many Scenarios

• Simple and Efficient SAN Storage: Choose certified block storage that fits any environment from day one, with a short learning curve, easy management plug-ins, free snapshots and built-in high-availability options.
• Fast and Secure SMB File Sharing: Get excellent shared file storage that makes permissions management easy, with powerful RAID options, reliable SMB file service, efficient backup tools and easy maintenance.
• Business Application Platform: Host cost-effective business solutions, including a powerful free backup server, a versatile email server, a lightweight directory server, or a monitoring server with transparent licensing.

Ideal backup solution

The FS2500 includes multiple backup applications to protect your important data on all devices. It features an easy-to-use user interface and durable storage technologies.

• Active Backup for Business centralises backup tasks for virtual machines, Windows computers, servers and rsync/SMB file servers. Fast and reliable recovery options ensure that running services, virtual machines and files are immediately available when needed.
• Active Backup for Office 365/G Suite is an on-premises backup solution for public clouds with a centralized dashboard. With single instance and block-level deduplication technology, it allows you to maximise storage efficiency.
• Hyper Backup fully backs up your data to a local shared folder, external device, another Synology NAS server, rsync server, or public cloud service to ensure data security.
• Synology Drive Clientbacks up your Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop devices to protect important computer files.
• Synology C2 Backup is a public cloud service provided by Synology. When you use Hyper Backup to back up your data to Synology Cloud2 (Synology C2), you ensure the security and availability of your data in case of disaster.

NEXT-GENERATION FILE SYSTEM

The Btrfs file system uses advanced storage technologies and optimized snapshots to avoid data corruption and reduce maintenance costs. While ensuring a high level of data integrity, it also provides flexible and efficient data protection and recovery tools.

• Flexible user quota/shared folder control provides complete quota control over all user accounts and shared folders
• Snapshot Replication provides storage-efficient and programmable data protection with system-wide backups of 1024 shared folders and 65,000 snapshots
• Folder or file level data recovery makes data recovery fast and flexible
• Automatic file self-healing detects and recovers corrupted files without user intervention

A powerful collaborative solution

Use the collaborative suites on your FS2500 to build a private cloud, improve teamwork, and increase productivity.

• Synology Drive gives you access to data and files on your FS2500 through a unified portal and helps you perform cross-platform synchronization. You can also install the Synology Office online editor and collaborate with other users on documents, spreadsheets and slides.
• Synology MailPlus allows businesses to set up private and reliable mail servers with its high-availability design. It provides your employees with an intuitive web client to manage their emails and increase productivity.
• Synology Calendar allows you to manage team calendars and easily organize daily tasks. You can also sync event information to your CalDAV clients, so you can view your calendars anywhere, anytime.
• Synology Chat is a web-based application that enables instant and secure conversations. It optimizes internal business communications with powerful interaction and information management features.

Simplified Virtualisation Deployment

Deploy and facilitate storage operations in virtualization environments with full certification for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and OpenStack. The CSI Kubernetes driver provides integrated volume management. The FS2500 is ideally suited for virtual machine storage, but it can also be used as an alternate host for virtual machines and run Docker containers.

• Manage storage directly from your hypervisor with Synology Storage Console for VMware or Windows platforms.
• Offload storage operations and speed up data transfer by integrating VMware VAAI and Windows ODX.
• Save significant storage space with full Flash volume deduplication when running on Synology SSDs.
• Protect all VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V deployments with agentless virtual machine backup in Synology Active Backup for Business.