

Synology is staying competitive not only on a hardware front, providing exceptional DiskStations but also on the software front with excellent data management service releasing DiskStation Manager 7.1. Virtual Machine Manager: storage I/O performance improvements and QoS capabilities.By Olga Papadimitriou – Business Development Officer.

MailPlus: virtual DSM support, expanded management options, importing, and migration improvements.Synology Drive: expanded indexing capabilities, revamped mobile user experience, and improved monitoring/auditing capabilities.Directory Server: support for read-only domain controllers to improve deployment security and flexibility.Synology C2 Hybrid Share: C2 server-side snapshots in addition to local file- versioning provided by Synology Drive for easier restoration.
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Active Backup for Business: bandwidth control, expanded monitoring and reporting capabilities, and support for DSM backups.Then there are ecosystem improvements being applied to the following to coincide with the DSM 7.1 release: For Synology NAS that are used to create domains, the “Update User Groups/Lists” option in Control Panel > Domains/LDAP will be disabled by default after updating to DSM 7.1. Supports automatically updating the domain database and syncing domain data regularly.Users can now open tabs directly from search results in Control Panel.Added icons on the taskbar to indicate ongoing background tasks that might affect system performance.Added the synchronization status between DSM and NTP servers at Control Panel > Regional Options > Time.Added the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+00:00) time zone option at Control Panel > Regional Options > Time.Supports specifying domains from the list of trusted domains to synchronize domain data.Added support for bypass traverse checking at Control Panel > File Services > Advanced to allow users to traverse folders and access permitted files or subfolders.Added support for the RTF editor to allow users to preview notification message content and style in real-time when editing.Added support for custom OIDC (OpenID Connect) settings to integrate DSM with external SSO servers.Reduced the minimum threshold for low capacity notification from 5% to 3%.If there is a file system error, DSM will unmount the volume to run file system checks without interrupting the services on other volumes.Added support for Btrfs (Peta Volume) in Active Backup for Business and Synology High Availability.Storage Manager now supports the management of the drives and storage of both active server and passive server in a Synology High Availability cluster.SSD Cache Groups can be allocated to multiple volumes, allowing for more flexible management of SSD cache capacity.Be the first to benefit from the latest improvements in IT management, user experience, and security with new versions of our most-used applications.Gain better oversight of processes and statuses throughout your deployment with more information aggregated to your preferred DSM account.Solutions for heavy VM use, multi-site data protection, and domain management in non-trusted environments.Improvements to our SSD cache implementation and new options to simplify SMB file server access.Efficiently back up and restore all your configurations, applications, and data in DSM.Here’s a quick overview of what you can expect to see after updating your Synology NAS to DSM 7.1: We’ve covered it here at length as it passed through RC channels. The DSM 7.1 update is fairly substantial. DiskStation Manager (DSM) 7.1 includes several major improvements. This latest release of its NAS operating system has been in development for months and is finally available to Synology enclosure owners. Synology has released DSM version 7.1 to the general public.
