Application Guide
Unied Storage and Virtualization Applications
The Turbo NAS supports iSCSI and NFS protocols, and is virtualization ready - VMware®
Ready™, Citrix® Ready™, and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ compatible, to provide businesses with
powerful and exible storage solutions for virtualization applications.
Virtualization ready
The Turbo NAS supports VMware® Ready ™ vSphere 5, VAAI; Citrix®
Ready XenServer ™ 6.0, and is compatible for Microsoft® Hyper-V,
supporting ODX and Windows Server 2012.
Secure and exible storage utilization
The Turbo NAS offers exible management through creating and
allocating iSCSI LUNs (Logical Unit Numbers), mapping and un-
mapping LUNs to and from the iSCSI targets, and thin provisioning
function. The support of CHAP authentication and LUN masking
reinforces secured deployment in virtualization applications.
VAAI/Hyper-V Plug-in Support
Use the free QNAP vSphere Client plug-in and QNAP SMI-S provider
for SCVMM. Managing the Turbo NAS from the virtualization
management client console is easy.
NAS/IP SAN unied storage
QTS supports NFS and iSCSI/IP-SAN storage solution that can be
utilized as a network shared storage of the virtualization environments.
It helps achieve efcient cost-saving, energy-saving and utilization of
storage capacity.
"We're glad that we have reached a balance of performance and budget by upgrading
to the QNAP Turbo NAS." - Mr. Toyama, manager of the information media center at
Kaetsu University (Japan)
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