Several years ago, I purchased a Synology DS1817+ to use as the primary storage in my lab and decided to use NFS with the VAAI plugin. This has worked very well for me, but it never hurts to re-think a decision. For this test I decided to perform a couple
You can download the latest version of the Synology VAAI plug-in from HERE, which includes the instructions for installing using ESXCLI or you could also deploy using vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM).