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Device file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file.
- Unix and Unix-like systems
  - Block devices provide buffered access to hardware devices, and provide some abstraction from their specifics.
Storage area network (SAN) is a computer network which provides access to consolidated, block-level data storage.
Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients.

Synology
- DiskStation Manager (DSM) is the intuitive operating system that powers every Synology NAS.
  - Overview
    - Virtualization Deploy VMs and containers directly, or provide reliable storage for external hypervisors.
  - What is NAS? provides a centralized location on a network to store data.
- r/synology / What’s the point of virtual DSM?
XPEnology
- XPEnology is an open source alternative to Synology's DSM. You can easily install it on a regular x86 machine to have a fully-fledged Network Attached Storage (NAS) server.
- pikabu.ru/tag/Xpenology
- Хабр / Собираем сетевое хранилище (NAS) XPenology
vdsm/virtual-dsm Virtual DSM in a Docker container.
- XPEnology Community / NEW: Virtual DSM in Docker - DSM 7.x