This article presents a comparison between SynetoOS 4 (OS4) and SynetoOS 5 (OS5), two versions of the operating system developed by Syneto.
The comparison highlights the improvements, new features and benefits offered by the upgrade to OS5, with a focus on key areas such as security, data protection, integration with third-party monitoring platforms and virtual machine migration capabilities.
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OS4 |
OS5 |
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| Supported | ✔︎ | ✔︎ |
| OS lifecycle phase | Development phase finished | Actively developed |
| Updates and security patches |
✔︎ 1 release per year |
✔︎ |
| New feature releases | ✔︎ |
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| API for advanced integrations | ✔︎ |
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Integration with third-party monitoring tools (Zabbix, Nagios, PRTG etc.) |
✔︎ |
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| Customizable email notifications | ✔︎ |
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| Built-in features for NIS2 compliance | ✔︎ |
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| Automatic ban on brute force attacks | ✔︎ | |
| MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) | ✔︎ | |
| Continuous Authentication | ✔︎ | |
| Recovery point hold | ✔︎ | |
| ML-driven protection policies | ✔︎ | |
| External VM protection | ✔︎ | |
| Add-on | ✔︎ | |
| Failover & Failback |
✔︎ Limited (no RP synchronization between nodes for failback) |
✔︎ Improved failover with simplified restore on the replica node |
| VMs migration |
✔︎ Cold VMs migration without restore points and protection |
✔︎ Cold VMs migration from Syneto and third-party vSphere hosts, with recovery point migration and protection SLA |
| VMs creation from web UI | ✔︎ | |
| Datastore management from web UI | ✔︎ |
✔︎ From command line and via API Explorer |
| Centralized image repository | ✔︎ | |
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Protection and replication activities details |
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✔︎ |
| Dashboard improvements | ✔︎ | |
| File share support | ✔︎ | |
| iSCSI storage sharing | ✔︎ | |
| Multi-language UI (EN/IT/ES) | ✔︎ | |
| Secure support tunnel | ✔︎ |
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