Synology presenta DSM 7.1 and new versions of Surveillance Station and Router Manager

The version 7.1 the DiskStation Manager (DSM) to manage all NAS devices from the manufacturer, along with the 9.0 of Surveillance Station for video surveillance infrastructures and the 1.3 of Router Manager are the latest news from Synology.

Now available, DSM 7.1 brings new features and improvements, such as the ability to take full system-wide backups and shared folder aggregation.

“We estimate that there are more than five million active DSM installations deployed as private clouds, backup servers, surveillance and other applications - points out Shamrock Ko, Director of Synology Product Systems Management Team-. Con DSM 7.0 “We can focus on improving the user experience during daily use of the platform”.

Storage management

The version 7.1 addresses storage management improvements, so that sharing data between several Synology NAS/SAN, in different locations, it's much easier.

Adding shared folders uses SMB DFS to create symbolic links between these on different Synology drives. In turn, shows multiple manufacturer SMB file servers present on the same network, as if it were a large portal folder.

Complete system protection

Synology DSM 7.1 introduces full system-wide backups. Through technology Active Backup for Business from the manufacturer, The ability to mirror and replicate the entire system significantly accelerates recovery time objectives (RTO).

This factor is especially relevant in the event of a complete site failure.. Full system restore capability also introduces a quick and convenient way to deploy identically configured systems.

Higher performance

The new user interface introduced in DSM 7.0 It has also continued to be improved by consolidating background tasks, with an easy-to-manage overview, in addition to offering greater transparency regarding what happens in the system, even in different user accounts.

For clusters Synology High Availability, Users can view and manage drives on both systems from a single instance of Storage Manager, thus simplifying the maintenance process and management.

As far as performance is concerned, DSM has long supported the flash caching to increase random I/O performance in a cost-effective way. This new version allows you to save storage in the SSD cache, especially when accelerating multiple storage volumes at the same time.

Improvements throughout the ecosystem

Synology has also introduced several major improvements to key applications and services on its NAS with the new DSM version. 7.1, as:

Active Backup for Business: bandwidth control, expanded monitoring and reporting capabilities, as well as support for DSM backups.

Active Insight: centralized monitoring of login activity and Hyper Backup job statuses, plus the ability to batch update monitored systems.

Synology C2 Hybrid Share: C2 server snapshots, plus version control of local files provided by Synology Drive for easy restoration.

Directory Server: support for read-only domain controllers to improve security and deployment flexibility.

Synology Drive: expanded indexing capabilities, revised mobile user experience and improved monitoring/auditing capabilities.

MailPlus: Virtual DSM support, expanded management options, import/migration improvements.

Virtual Machine Manager: improvements to storage I/O performance and QoS capabilities.

Synology Surveillance Station 9.0

Besides, Synology has also introduced Surveillance Station 9.0, your solution for the management of video surveillance infrastructures, offering more ease of use, multi-site management, security, etc.

A notable aspect is that it allows the complementary service to be started simultaneously C2 Surveillance, which takes advantage of the new dual recording capability introduced in Surveillance Station 9.0 to preserve, safely, important video signals in case of physical damage or theft of the NVR (see attached video)

Another novelty is Synology Router Manager (SRM) 1.3 and the router RT6600ax, that works with Wi-Fi 6. This update overhauls network management, introducing its segmentation and support for multiple SSIDs and VLANs, to which is added the renewed complementary mobile application DS router 2.0.