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Introduction Synology NAS and its DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system offer enterprises an easily maintained, readily scalable, and versatile private cloud solution. Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is a native hypervisor for DSM that combines the benefits of hardware virtualization with the advantages of Synology NAS, including simplicity, compatibility, and functionality. Choosing Virtualization for Your Business When businesses choose their IT setup, they set the conditions for their future growth. A simple IT infrastructure with systems that are easily expandable will not slow down your organization as it changes, and allows you to maintain consistent security and usability as you scale up or change your activities. Virtualization is an essential technology used by many organizations to achieve these goals. Virtual machines (VM) are operating systems that operate independently and isolated from each other on the same IT hardware. They can be an excellent solution to maximize use of available hardware for different users and tasks. Flexible, Efficient, and Secure Infrastructure VMs are typically suitable where a service needs to be run on a different operating system or separate machine, but does not require so many resources as to necessitate its own separate device. If sufficient capacity is available on existing hardware, such an application can be hosted in a virtual machine on devices already in place. This includes on your Synology NAS. Beside maximizing hardware use, VMs can help you sandbox or isolate threats posed by certain applications, ensuring that other essential functions are not affected. Being hardwareindependent and easy to manage, VMs can also ensure easier scaling, backup, replication, and migration, ensuring that changes and failures do not equal costly system downtime. Synology's Integrated Virtualization Solution While VMs can help save operational and financial overhead, their implementation has potential downsides. Easy management is offset by the initial complexity of setting up the required virtualization infrastructure. Services hosted on VMs also take a heavier toll on hardware, leading to a significant performance penalty for certain operations. Synology VMM takes away much of the complexity of setting up virtualization with superior hardware and software integration. Synology NAS servers combine all needed resources on one device, making setting up virtual computing, storage, and networks a breeze. Easy management through one clean application saves time and hassle. 01 Introduction

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Introduction
Synology NAS and its DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system offer enterprises an easily
maintained, readily scalable, and versatile private cloud solution. Virtual Machine Manager
(VMM) is a native hypervisor for DSM that combines the benefits of hardware virtualization
with the advantages of Synology NAS, including simplicity, compatibility, and functionality.
Choosing Virtualization for Your Business
When businesses choose their IT setup, they set the conditions for their future growth. A
simple IT infrastructure with systems that are easily expandable will not slow down your
organization as it changes, and allows you to maintain consistent security and usability as
you scale up or change your activities.
Virtualization is an essential technology used by many organizations to achieve these goals.
Virtual machines (VM) are operating systems that operate independently and isolated from
each other on the same IT hardware. They can be an excellent solution to maximize use of
available hardware for different users and tasks.
Flexible, Efficient, and Secure Infrastructure
VMs are typically suitable where a service needs to be run on a different operating system or
separate machine, but does not require so many resources as to necessitate its own separate
device. If sufficient capacity is available on existing hardware, such an application can be
hosted in a virtual machine on devices already in place. This includes on your Synology NAS.
Beside maximizing hardware use, VMs can help you sandbox or isolate threats posed by
certain applications, ensuring that other essential functions are not affected. Being hardware-
independent and easy to manage, VMs can also ensure easier scaling, backup, replication,
and migration, ensuring that changes and failures do not equal costly system downtime.
Synology’s Integrated Virtualization Solution
While VMs can help save operational and financial overhead, their implementation has
potential downsides. Easy management is offset by the initial complexity of setting up the
required virtualization infrastructure. Services hosted on VMs also take a heavier toll on
hardware, leading to a significant performance penalty for certain operations.
Synology VMM takes away much of the complexity of setting up virtualization with superior
hardware and software integration. Synology NAS servers combine all needed resources
on one device, making setting up virtual computing, storage, and networks a breeze. Easy
management through one clean application saves time and hassle.
Introduction