Synology SA3600 User Manual

Synology NAS

SA3600

Scalable and Fast Storage

Server for Your Growing

Business

Synology SA3600 is a 12-bay rackmount NAS

designed for large-scale data storage. Its

comprehensive data protection solutions,

including multi-version backup for server

and virtual machines, hybrid cloud

integration, and high-availability technology

support, make it a reliable server for massive

storage deployment. SA3600 is backed by

Highlights

A rackmount NAS with storage scalability, suitable

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for video post-production and massive surveillance

deployment

Total cost of ownership (TCO)-optimized storage

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companion, offering flexible support for both SAS and

SATA drives

Intel® Xeon-D® 12-core 2.1 GHz processor and 16 GB

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DDR4 ECC RDIMM, expandable up to 128 GB

Scale up to 180/96 drives when connected with 7

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RX2417sas/RX1217sas

Elastic expandability with dual PCIe 3.0 x8 slots for

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installing additional 10/25/40GbE network interface

cards

Effortless data protection for your physical server,

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virtual machines, and cloud services through Synology

Active Backup Suite

Advanced iSCSI storage supports various virtualization

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deployment, including VMware vSphere®, Windows

Hyper-V®, Citrix XenServer®, and OpenStack Cinder

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Synology’s 5-year limited warranty1.

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Next-Generation File System

A modern le system designed to address obstacles
often encountered in enterprise storage systems,
and safeguard data integrity through metadata
mirroring, self-healing, and snapshot replication.

Expandable Storage with Outstanding
Performance

SA3600 is equipped with an Intel® Xeon® D-1567 12-core CPU and 16 GB

ECC RDIMM (upgradable to 128 GB) to ensure system performance and

data integrity. Offering dual built-in 10GBASE-T Ethernet and dual PCIe

3.0 slots for expansion of 10/25/40GbE network interface cards, SA3600

delivers over 5,561 MB/s sequential throughput via aggregated 10Gb

Ethernet3.

With the ability to scale up its storage to 180 drives2 and deliver raw

capacity at petabyte scale, SA3600 can easily fulfill the need for video

post-production and massive surveillance deployment. Supporting SAS

and SATA drives without vendor lock-in, SA3600 provides an elastic

and expandable storage solution with optimized total cost of ownership

(TCO).

Btrfs: Next Generation Storage Efficiency

SA3600 introduces the Btrfs file system, bringing the most advanced

storage technologies to meet the management needs of modern

businesses:

• Advanced snapshot technology provides schedulable,

near-instantaneous data protection of shared folders and iSCSI LUNs.

• File and folder level data restoration brings huge convenience and

saves time for users who wish to restore only a specific file or folder.

• Flexible Shared Folder and User Quota System provide

comprehensive quota control on all user accounts and shared

folders.

• File self-healing allows Btrfs file system to auto-detect corrupted

files with mirrored metadata, and to recover broken data using the

supported RAID volumes including RAID1, 5, 6, 10, and RAID F1.

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Synology Active Backup Suite

Integrated, modern, and license-free backup &
instant recovery solution for business workloads in
physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

Ultimate Backup Solution

SA3600 integrates various backup applications to safeguard your

important data on any device with an intuitive user interface and durable

storage technologies.

• Workstation/Server/Virtual Machine/SaaS backup: Active Backup

for Business centralizes backup tasks for virtual machines, Windows

PC, servers, and rsync/SMB file servers and offers various recovery

options to ensure lowest RTO. Active Backup for Office 365/G

Suite is an on-premises backup solution for public clouds with a

centralized dashboard, optimizing storage efficiency through the

single instancing and block-level deduplication technology.

• NAS backup: Hyper Backup comprehensively backs up your data

to a local shared folder, an external device, another Synology NAS,

an rsync server, or Synology public cloud service, Synology C2

Backup, to ensure data safety and availability can be achieved when

a disaster happens

• Computer backup: Synology Drive Client backs up your Windows,

Mac, and Linux desktop devices to safeguard important computer

files. SA3600 is also compatible with Time Machine, allowing you to

effortlessly back up your Mac to Synology NAS.

Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager implements various
virtualization solutions, allowing you to manage
multiple virtual machines on your SA3600, including
Windows, Linux, and Virtual DSM.

Effortless Virtualization Deployment

Synology’s Virtual Machine Manager adds boundless capabilities to

your NAS. You can set up and run various virtual machines including

Windows, Linux, and Virtual DSM on your NAS to test new software

versions in a sandbox environment, isolate your customers' machines,

and increase the flexibility of your SA3600 with reduced hardware

deployment and maintenance costs. Synology iSCSI storage fully

supports most virtualization solutions to enhance work efficiency

with a simple management interface. VMware vSphere™ 6.5 and

VAAI integration helps offload storage operations and optimizes

computational efficiency. While Windows Offloaded Data Transfer

(ODX) speeds up data transfer and migration rates, the support for

OpenStack Cinder transforms your SA3600 into a block-based storage

component.

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