As I stated in the post about Synology in VirtualBox, I wondered about forensic analysis of Synology NAS, especially about memory acquisition. As a part of preparation phase, I had to figure out how to create a Synology VM, because I did not have access to real Synology HW. Then I found the way how to create a memory dump in DSM 6.1.7 (from May 2018), but I wanted to verify my approach also in real HW with up-to-date version of DSM.

I wondered about forensic analysis of Synology NAS, especially how to create a memory dump, but unfortunately, I was not able to find any useful howtos. I had to try it myself, but as a 1st step I needed a running instance of Synology DSM (DiskStation Manager, the web-based OS running on Synology NAS). Because I do not have any real HW Synology NAS, I decided to try it as a Virtual Machine.