Server Virtualization with QNAP® Turbo NAS and Microsoft® Hyper-V

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Comprehensive Event Log System and Instant Notification Detailed logs of file-level data access to the NAS via Samba, iSCSI, FTP, AFP, HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet, and SSH; and networking services accessed by online users are all recorded. Moreover, users can conf igure the SMTP server, SMSC server, and instant messaging settings on the NAS in order Server Virtualization with to receive instant system warning or error messages by email, SMS, and Windows Live Messenger. QNAP® Turbo NAS and Microsoft® Hyper-V

AJAX-based Management Interface QNAP offers superior performance and affordable network storage solutions The Turbo NAS provides an AJAX-based management interface that allows convenient system confi guration by a web browser. Less technical-savvy users can easily configure the advanced features with simple wizards. The NAS supports Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari (version 3 & 4), Firefox (version Virtualization increases eff iciency of IT management Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V 3 & 4), and Google Chrome. and availability of IT applications and resources. QNAP Turbo NAS (Network Attached Storage) is the high VM VM VM VM VM VM VM performance and reliable storage designed to provide an affordable and easy-to-manage solution with iSCSI service for virtualized and clustered environment and Hyper-V Cluster reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO).

QNAP® Storage Products for Microsoft Virtualization With QNAP Turbo NAS, you can: • Leverage all the benef its from Tower Models Microsoft virtualization. • Deploy the virtualization 10 GbE Ready ! environment with f lexibility. • Improve work continuity. TS-269 Pro TS-469 Pro TS-569 Pro TS-669 Pro TS-869 Pro TS-879 Pro TS-1079 Pro TS-259 Pro+ TS-459 Pro II TS-559 Pro II TS-659 Pro II TS-859 Pro+ TS-239 Pro II+ TS-459 Pro+ TS-559 Pro+ TS-659 Pro+ Network Shared Storage (QNAP Turbo NAS) TS-439 Pro II+

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Leverage the benefits from Deploy the virtualization Improve work continuity with Microsoft virtualization environment with high availability QNAP shared technology f lexibility storage TS-459U-SP+ TS-459U-RP+ TS-859U-RP+ TS-EC879U-RP TS-EC1679U-RP TS-879U-RP TS-1679U-RP The Microsoft Hyper-V certiﬁed products QNAP Turbo NAS can be utilized as iSCSI QNAP Turbo NAS protects all your virtual from QNAP enable fast integration and storage in Microsoft Hyper-V environment. machines with RAID 1, 5, 6, 10 with For more information on QNAP Turbo NAS, please visit: http://www.qnap.com/ deployments into Microsoft clustered It allows file sharing across Windows, Mac, hot spare and RAID recovery. The multiple For more information on QNAP virtualization storage solutions, please visit: http://www.qnap.com/en/index.php?sn=1839&lang=en environment and are able to operate Linux, and UNIX platforms at the same gigabit LAN desgin (2 to 8) load balancing reliably with advanced features such as time. The iSCSI thin-provisioning offers and failover to sustain any single point live migration, high availability, network great f lexibility in the storage capacity of failure, keeping the connection alive QNAP Systems, Inc. failover, and Clustered Shared Volume. planning and allocation when creating between the guest OSes running on TEL: +886-2-2641-2000 FAX: +886-2-2641-0555 Address: 2F, No. 22, Zhongxing Rd, Xizhi Dist, New Taipei City 221, Taiwan The features help the customers to iSCSI LUNs from the beginning. With the Hyper-V hosts and the QNAP NAS. create highly scalable, manageable, and QNAP NAS, LUNs can be mapped to, ©Copyright 2012. QNAP Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All the features, functionality, and other product speciﬁcations are subject to change without prior notice or obligation. Information contained herein is subject to change without notice. agile virtual infrastructure. unmapped from, and switched among QNAP® is a registered trademark of QNAP Systems, Inc. All other brands and product names referred to are trademarks of their respective holders. different iSCSI targets. P/N: 51000-022925-RS 201207

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• Primary Storage for Microsoft Hyper-V Protect Virtual Machines Continuous Services and Performance Gain QNAP Turbo NAS accelerates the setup • Shared Storage for Virtualized Testing of the virtualization infrastructure. VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Environment The Turbo NAS offers RAID 0, 1, 5, 5+spare, 6, 6+spare, 10, The TS-x79 Series Turbo NAS is 10 GbE ready and supports up Users can deploy the Turbo NAS as Microsoft Hyper-V • Backup Storage for Existing an iSCSI storage for the Microsoft 10+spare, single, and JBOD disk conf igurations. It supports to 8 Gigabit LAN ports with multiple bonding modes: Balance-rr hot-swap design that a failed member drive of a RAID con igurationf (Round-Robin), Active Backup, Balance XOR, Broadcast, IEEE Virtualization Environment Hyper-V environment. using Turbo NAS for Hyper-V, they can using benef (RAID 1 or above only) can be replaced by hot swapping 802.3ad, Balance-TLB (Transmit Load Balancing), and Balance-ALB it from QNAP iSCSI features and a High Switch without turning off the NAS. (Adaptive Load Balancing). These modes enable continuous Availability environment for the virtual services and increase the bandwidth between the Hyper-V Online RAID Level Migration machines. hosts and the QNAP storage. Key Features QNAP Turbo NAS Users upgrade the disk RAID 1 conf iguration to higher • Supports iSCSI Deployments Single RAID level with the data RAID 5 Failover & Load Balancing • Supports Windows Server 2008 ISOs Repository, Active Directory, Shared Folders iSCSI Storage retained without turning + 1. Data ﬂow from clients Failover Cluster off the NAS. RAID 6/10 2. Data traff ic is evenly distributed • Supports Cluster Shared Volumes to balance network loading • Multiple Gigabit LAN Design for Switch QNAP Turbo NAS Continuous Services and Performance Gain Shared Storage for Virtualized Testing Environment Online RAID Capacity Expansion • Segment-leading iSCSI Features The storage capacity of a RAID configuration can be expanded by • 10 Gigabit Ready hard drives replacement. All the data will be kept and seamlessly In the software development process, Multi-IP Settings Virtualization Environment for Testing moved to the newly installed hard disk drives without turning off • Secure Data Protection R&D and QA teams often require Host for R&D Host for QA the NAS. • High Ease-of-Use different environments and operating LAN 1 LAN 2 VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Switch Switch • Supports Active Directory systems (Windows, Mac, Linux) QNAP Turbo NAS to run a wide variety of applications. 500GB 500GB 1TB • Online LUN Expansion 500GB 500GB 1TB Microsoft Hyper-V Microsoft Hyper-V 500GB 1TB 1TB 500GB 1TB 500GB 500GB 1TB To reduce the costs for server setup 1TB 1TB • Online LUN Snapshot & Backup Supports multiple connections from different LAN and increase the work efficiency, 7TB (RAID5) 14TB (RAID5) virtualization environment is established. QNAP Turbo NAS is the perfect shared storage among different OS in Microsoft Switch Hyper-V environment. Segment-leading iSCSI Features

QNAP Turbo NAS Online iSCSI LUN Snapshot & Backup The Turbo NAS supports point-in-time LUN snapshot to ensure data LUN Backup consistency between the backup contents and the original copy. Users can VM can be executed also back up the iSCSI LUN to and restore the copies from various storage in another server

be needed for data backup, archiving, Microsoft Hyper-V CHAP and LUN Masking or extended storage. QNAP Turbo Designed with CHAP authentication and LUN masking, the advanced ACL (Access LUN1 for iSCSI storage VM-Server 1 VM-Server 2 VM-Server 3 NAS can be seamlessly integrated to Control List) offers the capability to block unauthorized access from the initiators. server 1 (Cluster) online Switch LUN2 for expansion the Hyper-V environment. Users can server 2 VM VM VM VM select from 2 to 16-bay Turbo NAS SPC-3 Persistent Reservation Support Microsoft Microsoft Switch Hyper-V Hyper-V models (tower or rackmount) with up The built-in iSCSI service supports enterprise-level features such as SPC-3 LUN3 for Primary Storage Backup Storage server 3 to 64TB storage capacity according to persistent reservation for clustering in Windows Server 2008. Application Server Application Server the storage requirements. QNAP NAS SNAPSHOT supports Microsoft Data Protection to SNAPSHOT Advanced MPIO and MC/S Support Public Ofﬁce SNAPSHOT back up virtual machines from the With the support of MPIO (Multipath Input Output) and MC/S (Multiple Partner

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Sales works well with third-party backup software such as Symantec Backup Exec to protect your targets using two or more network interfaces from the server with failover and Other_B NAS f ile sharing virtualization environment from primary storage failure. load balancing. Furthermore, transmission is achieved maximizing performance.

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Virtualization Server destinations, including Windows shared folders via SMB/CIFS, Linux shared Virtualization Server Backup Server Backup Storage for Existing Virtualization Access the folders via NFS, or simply local shared folders on the NAS. snapshot for incremental backup Point-in-time Restore Environment snapshot the LUN LUN Restored Online LUN Expansion & Multiple LUNs per Target LUN LUN Backup Image LUN Snapshot Backup to Expand LUNs (Logical Unit Number) on the Turbo NAS without losing the a remote NAS If a Hyper-V environment with a data! Flexibly map to, unmap from and switch among different iSCSI targets primary storage has already been VM VM VM for easy management of the storage; LUN can be expanded online. QNAP Turbo NAS QNAP Turbo NAS deployed, an additional storage may be needed for data backup, archiving, Microsoft Hyper-V CHAP and LUN Masking or extended storage. QNAP Turbo Designed with CHAP authentication and LUN masking, the advanced ACL (Access LUN1 for iSCSI storage VM-Server 1 VM-Server 2 VM-Server 3 NAS can be seamlessly integrated to Control List) offers the capability to block unauthorized access from the initiators. server 1 (Cluster) online Switch LUN2 for expansion the Hyper-V environment. Users can server 2 VM VM VM VM select from 2 to 16-bay Turbo NAS SPC-3 Persistent Reservation Support Microsoft Microsoft Switch Hyper-V Hyper-V models (tower or rackmount) with up The built-in iSCSI service supports enterprise-level features such as SPC-3 LUN3 for Primary Storage Backup Storage server 3 to 64TB storage capacity according to persistent reservation for clustering in Windows Server 2008. Application Server Application Server the storage requirements. QNAP NAS SNAPSHOT supports Microsoft Data Protection to SNAPSHOT Advanced MPIO and MC/S Support Public Ofﬁce SNAPSHOT back up virtual machines from the With the support of MPIO (Multipath Input Output) and MC/S (Multiple Partner

Switch primary storage to the NAS. It also Connections per Session) on the Turbo NAS, users can connectto the QNAP iSCSI Other_A

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