QNAP Announces iSCSI and NFS VMware(R) Ready Certification of its Enterprise-level TS-859 Pro iSCSI Turbo NAS
manufacturer of world class Network-Attached Storage (NAS) servers, Network
Video Recorders (NVR), and Network Multimedia Player (NMP) today announced its
8-bay tower model TS-859 Pro Turbo NAS has been certified as compatible NFS
and iSCSI datastore with VMware vSphere4 (ESX 4.0) virtualization platform.
TS-859 Pro Turbo NAS can serve as both IP-SAN and NAS, which offers
flexibility, ultra-high performance, easy configuration and management, as
well as affordable price points that enable SMB and entry-level Enterprise
customers to enjoy the advantages of VMware Cloud Computing environments.
VMware vSphere is the industry’s first cloud operating system that offers a
way to reduce IT costs and increase responsiveness. Shared network storage is
an essential component of a Cloud Computing infrastructure. TS-859 Pro Turbo
NAS can be easily integrated into vSphere. It also allows the interoperability
between VMware virtual machines and QNAP’s high performance certified storage.
“QNAP provides our business customers with high performance and highly
reliable networked storage that meets their needs and won’t break the budget.
The IT administrators of small businesses and workgroups can now have an
affordable and powerful alternative for the storage solution in the VMware
virtualized environments,” said
Pro offers enterprise-level iSCSI features, such as SPC-3 compliant, multiple
LUNs per target, MPIO, MC/S, and LUN (logical unit number) masking. It offers
up to 16TB storage capacity via 8 hot-swappable SATA hard disks, dual Gigabit
LAN ports with fail-over, load-balancing and multi-IP setting capabilities. It
also features RAID 0/ 1/ 5/ 6/ 5+hot spare/ 6+hot spare configurations which
offer higher redundancy. Meanwhile, the advanced RAID management tool
facilitates online RAID capacity expansion, online RAID level migration, and
RAID recovery maximize system up time. “Besides TS-859 Pro, the entire lineup
of TS-x59 series Turbo NAS will be certified soon in June this year,” Mr. Tsao
added.
For more information on the QNAP Turbo NAS lineup of products, including
product spec sheets and application information, please visit
http://www.qnap.com/virtualization.asp
For more information about TS-859 Pro, please visit:
http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=146
About QNAP Systems, Inc.
QNAP Systems, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 2004 and is
dedicated to bringing world-class NAS storage, professional NVR video
surveillance, and network video players to consumer, small/medium business,
and entry-level enterprise market segments. QNAP leverages not only hardware
design but also a growing core competency in software engineering that is
precisely focused on bringing to market products that offer the highest
available performance coupled with outstanding reliability, scalability, and
ease of installation and use. QNAP is a multi-national company with
headquarters in
States
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