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Virtual Machine Manager
Features
- Intuitive hypervisor software that allows your Synology NAS servers to run various operating systems on virtual machines
- Centralized management and monitoring of multiple instances of virtual machines in a cluster of multiple Synology NAS servers
- Virtual machine migration for effective hardware resource management
- High availability and disaster recovery solutions for maximum service uptime
- Supports running Virtual DSM that offers robust features and is equally powerful as DiskStation Manager (DSM)
Specifications
- Supports various operation systems, including Windows, Linux and Virtual DSM (Refer here for the complete list of supported operating systems and here for more information on Virtual DSM license)
- The maximum number of virtual machines varies by Synology NAS models (Refer to this article to know how many virtual machines can be run on a Synology NAS)
- Supports a maximum of 7 Synology NAS in a cluster
- Privilege control for each virtual machine
- Easy sharing of and access to virtual machines via browser URLs
- Real-time CPU, memory, and network usage monitoring
- Supports virtual machine instant clone within seconds
- Supports virtual machine suspension and resumption
- Supported image types:
- Virtual DSM: *.pat
- ISO: *.iso
- Disk: *.img, *.vmdk, *.vdi, *.vhd, *.vhdx, and *.qcow2
- Supports exporting a virtual machine as an OVA file
- Schedulable snapshots for each virtual machine
- Maximum number of snapshots per virtual machine: 32 (255 with a VMM Pro license)
- Maximum number of snapshots per host: 65,536
- Supports file-system consistent snapshots (Synology Guest Tool required on the guest OS)
- Maximum number of virtual switches: 4 (4,096 with a VMM Pro license)
- Maximum share links per host: 1 (16 with a VMM Pro license)
- Virtual machine specifications
- CPU
- Compatibility mode for live migrations when CPUs on two hosts are different
- Hyper-V Enlightenments function for I/O performance optimization
- QoS for CPU resource reservation
- The maximum number of virtual CPUs varies by Synology NAS models
- RAM
- Minimum RAM
- Virtual machine: 128 MB
- Virtual DSM: 1 GB
- The maximum number varies by Synology NAS models
- Disk
- Supported disk controller: IDE, SATA, VirtIO
- Maximum number of disks per virtual machine/Virtual DSM: 8
- Network
- Supported network interface: virtio, e1000, rtl8139
- Supports SR-IOV
- Supports MAC address modification
- Minimum vNIC per virtual machine/Virtual DSM: 1
- Maximum vNIC per virtual machine/Virtual DSM: 8
- Others
- USB 2.0/3.0 passthrough (not supported on Virtual DSM)
- Supported video card: cirrus, vga, vmvga
- Supported boot modes: UEFI BIOS, Legacy BIOS
- Advanced features for Virtual Machine Manager Pro:
- Live migration relocates a virtual machine to another host without interrupting ongoing services
- Supports High Availability for virtual machines
- Protection plans secure virtual machines with schedulable snapshot and replication tasks
- Supports running virtual machines on a remote host
- Supports storage migration to a remote host
- Refer here for more information on VMM Pro license
Limitations
- Virtual machines can only run on Synology NAS with more than 2 GB of memory
- Virtual machine data can only be stored on Btrfs volumes
- Importing/Exporting virtual machines with vDisks larger than 2 TB is not supported
- When the virtual machine firmware is UEFI, the maximum resolution is 800x600
- Virtual DSM does not support the features below:
- USB passthrough
- Control Panel: External Device, Hardware & Power
- Network functions, including wireless dongles, MTU, and LACP
- Without a Virtual DSM license, each host can only run 1 Virtual DSM. The recommended number of Virtual DSM that can run on a host varies by models
- Refer to this page for the list of Synology NAS models supporting Virtual Machine Manager
- Each host in the same cluster must have a unique static IP address
- The High Availability feature is only supported in VMM clusters consisting of more than 3 hosts
- When the feature is enabled, virtual machines can only be moved between active and passive servers
- Web VNC console browser requirements:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Edge
- Internet Explorer 11
- Safari 10 or above
- Virtual Machine Manager 2.5.0-9432 and above versions are compatible with Synology High Availability 2.0.3-0140 or above
- Virtual Machine Manager is not compatible with hybrid high-availability clusters
- When Virtual Machine Manager is running in a Synology high-availability cluster:
- There can only be one host in the VMM cluster
- SR-IOV is not supported
Synology Guest Tool for Virtual Machine Manager
Features
- Enhances the compatibility between Windows virtual machines and Virtual Machine Manager, and boosts virtual machine performance
- Protects data with comprehensive snapshot features
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- System requirements
- Windows 10
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 8
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows Server 2008 only supports Synology Guest Tool 1.4.2)
- Offers VirtIO drivers for Windows, including vDisk drivers and vNICs
- Offers drivers that help with the communication between virtual machines and Synology NAS
- Supports file-system consistent snapshots
Limitations
- Windows Server 2008 virtual machines must restart after Synology Guest Agent is installed