Qnap TDS-16489U-SB2 User Manual

Application Server Storage Server

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TDS-16489U

Hyperconverged Enterprise NAS

Hyperconverged
NAS Server

Four 2.5" for
SSD Cache

Dual

SAS

Storage
Expansion

3.5’

2.5’

SAS

12Gb/s

Server

RDIMM

LRDIMM

Ready

PCIe
SSD

support

support

External

GPU

Support

Big Data

Data Center

Hyperconverged High-performance Computing,
Virtualization, Storage, and Application server in one

chassis for streamlined efficiency and manageability

QNAP Hyperconverged Enterprise NAS

- Hardware Architecture

Double-Take® Availability™
Disaster Recovery

Comprehensive high availability
and data protection

- Software Capability

Converged Application Scenario 1 Converged Application Scenario 2 Converged Application Scenario 3

GPU Pass-through for a
multitude of applications

Running Windows Exchange, SQL,
Active Directory and DNS with
virtual machines

Industry-leading Compute

Dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3
Data-Center Server CPUs

PCIe SSD NVMe

Offers the best random read

performance

Massively parallel I/O throughput with

cutting-edge flash technology

Big data storage and analytics

TDS-16489U

10/40GbE Ethernet ports

Ultra-low latency networking for iSCSI/NFS data transfer,
a breakthrough in virtualized environments

AMD Radeon™ R7 and R9 Series External
Graphics Cards

Energy-saving and high-performance GPU Pass-through to virtual
machines with OpenGL/OpenCL/Microsoft® DirectX Support

NVMe PCIe SSD

Best-of-breed extreme I/O acceleration

Dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 CPU

2 x enterprise class processors (up to 8 cores each) with 12Gb/s interface suitable
for demanding workloads including data-centers, high-performance computing, and
big data analytics.

Data Storage Controller

3 x LSI® 12Gb/s SAS controllers fully compatible, high-performance,
dedicated data bandwidth

12Gb/s SAS HBA

2 x high-speed 12Gb/s mini-SAS interfaces for 12Gb/s JBOD expansion

4 x 2.5 SSD

Dedicated flash cache

4 x 10GbE SFP+ Ports

Built-in 10GbE SFP+ ports to satisfy high-speed data transfer
with iSCSI/NFS/CIFS

IPMI Remote Management

Intelligent system management, monitoring, control, and alerts
to reduce maintenance costs

16 x DIMM Slots

Install up to 1TB memory with 16 x 64GB DIMMs

Hardware

Customization

and Expansion

Expansion opportunities with choices of quad, hex, or octa-core E5-2600 v3 CPUs and four PCIe slots

Hyperconverged NAS Server

TDS-16489U

Remote Connection

With the new remote connection function,
File Station now enables management of
files on local, remote, and cloud storage
across geographical boundaries and
platforms from a single window. Remote
connection enables you to carry out file
management tasks from remote to local
devices and vice versa from a single
management window. Remote connection
fully supports connection to multiple cloud
services including Google Drive™, Dropbox™,
Microsoft OneDrive®, Amazon Cloud Drive™,
and Yandex.Disk™ in addition to network
protocols such as CIFS/SMB, FTP, and
WebDAV.

Qsync Central Station 2.0

Qsync Central Station 2.0 supports file
synchronization between multiple devices
enabling you to use a smart phone, tablet,
computer, or web access to browse through
synchronized files. When your computer is
offline, edit the files offline or view the files on
the local Qsync folder, and as soon computer
is back online Qsynch will resume the data
synchronization. Delete files from your mobile
device, and instead leave them on your NAS
to save the storage space of your local
device. Use the powerful features of Qsync
Central Station 2.0 to collaborate with your
colleagues, or share music with your friends.

Application Server Storage Server

Shared

Links

Qsync

Samba

File Services

Snapshot / Auto-tiering

Storage Management

Remote

Connections

Web
DAV

AFP

FTP

NFS

Filesystem

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Storage ServerStorage Server Application ServerApplication Server

iSCSI

Target

iSCSI

Initiator

MPIO , MC/S

ODX

iSCSI Services

PHP

VAAI

WEB

Application

Services

System

Resources

Controller

myQNAPcloud

Python

Native

QTS

Apps

(QPKG)

App Center

Native

QTS

Apps

(QPKG)

QTS Application Framework

Docker Engine

LXC Container

Docker /

Container

Apps

Container Station

Linux

VMs

Big-data
Analysis

Applications

Hadoop / Spark

GPU

Acceleration

Linux OS

VM Snapshot / Migration

KVM Hypervisor

Windows

Server VMs

Server

Server

AD

Windows

Server 2012

R2

Exchange

Windows

Desktop VMs

APP

APP

Desktop /

Graphic

Applications

Windows 10

APP

Big Data Analytics

The TDS-16489U provides the heavy-duty
compute, capacious memory, and mammoth
storage capabilities required to drill through
extremely demanding big data analytics
workloads. The TDS-16489U intelligently uses
NVMe PCIe SSD caching, and auto-tiering to
dramatically reduce data storage demands;
while, big data tools such as Hadoop and
Apache Spark can be deployed easily with
Container Station or Virtualization Station.
Because the computation and data transmis­sion all occur via internal buses, running Big
Data analysis on the TDS-16489U is massively
more efficient. This all provides further ROI in
that developers no longer worry about the
maintenance of running multiple servers.

Windows Server VMs

Running Windows services (such as Active
Directory and Exchange Server) on virtual
machines vastly reduces costs on all fronts.
The Virtualization Station in QTS
provides a stable environment and efficient
storage, providing greater advantages than a
normal server with a storage device for
running the aforementioned services.

Qtier™

QNAP’s auto-tiering technology Qtier™ is a
multi-tier storage management system. Qtier
automatically moves the most active data to
the high-performance drives while less active
data is migrated to high-capacity drives. This
alleviates the burden on administrators by
supporting tasks of performance pre-estima­tion, layout design, and relocation of data
according to performance and budgets. Use
Qtier to get an overview of all data waiting to
be processed, in the migration phase, and
data that has been processed. If administra­tors need to perform administrative tasks or
there are bandwidth requirements for external
connections, the administrators can pause
data migration for a period. Further, assigning
weights to data can help adjust bandwidth
allocation, in addition to alleviating
congestion between internal data migration
and external I/O.

Non-Volatile Memory
express (NVMe) Cache

NVMe standardizes the PCIe SSD interface and
unlocks the potential of PCIe SSDs. The
TDS-16489U fully supports SSD caching with
NVMe reducing latency, enabling high levels of
parallelism, and delivering outstanding I/O.

Cache Engine

PCI-E Based

NVMe

SATA SSD

Software Defined Networking (SDN)

The advantages of SDN are well established and incorporate the clean separation between
physical and virtual networks using hypervisor networking while maintaining full visibility across
both the physical and the virtual networks. More importantly, for SMB the benefits include the
ability to start small and grow incrementally over time while enabling micro-segmentation for
multitenant networks. In deploying a software-defined switch, users are able to build a flexible,
efficient network to connect both the upper service protocols and the lower physical layers.
Customization of network topology is also simplified through different networking modes (i.e.
Bridged, External only, and Isolated). Moreover, full support for 40 GbE transmission and
port-trunking enable an extremely fast and secure network environment with full load-balancing
capabilities.

SAS /

RAID / JBOD / Storage Pool

SAS/SATA HDDs

SAS Expansion

Unit (Up to 2PB)

Dual-Xeon E5 Processors GPU Pass-through

DDR4 Memory

(Up to 1TB)

Software Defined Switch

40G/10G/1G

Ethernet

AMD

R7/R9 Series GPUs

Hardware InfrastructureHardware Infrastructure

GPU Pass-through

Graphics capabilities have long been an issue on virtualized platforms. GPU passthrough
solves this issue in that an external dedicated GPU can be assigned directly to a VM to provide
full support for rich 3D graphics. The TDS-16489U supports AMD Radeon™ R7 and R9 Series*.

Virtual Machine High
Availability and Migration

With the Double-Take® Availability™ solution,
high availability, and disaster recovery are
efficiently implemented with failover across
virtual machines. This ensures that
operations are quickly recovered whenever
system failures occur.³

Container Station

Container Station incorporating Docker®
streamlines application deployment and
migration on virtualized and distributed
environments. The LXC (the lightweight Linux
Container) enables deployment of high

-performance lightweight virtualized Linux®
environments on your NAS.

TDS-16489U

Hyperconverged NAS Server

Hypervisor

Application Server

(VMware/Citrix/Hyper-V)

iSCSI

NFS

2 in 1

Application Server

Storage Server

TDS-16489U

TVS-EC1580MU-SAS-RP

Storage Server

Previous Solution

New Solution

▍Application Server and Storage Server

Virtualization applications typically comprise:

® High-performance application server based on dual Intel E5 CPU;

®VMware

® Storage server: This component (QNAP TVS-EC1580MU-SAS-RP in our solution) is used to mount storage using iSCSI/NFS for the application

server;

®High-speed connection: 10GbE or 40GbE.

IT administrators deploying this architecture must choose between:

®

, Citrix®, or Windows Hyper-V: for virtualization deployment;

® 10GBase-T, SFP+ over copper cable, optical cable, 10GbE or 40GbE.

®Bandwidth requirements: Data from the Guest OS needs to be rapidly transferred to the storage server.

®Capacity requirements: The storage server needs to be able to handle random read/write requests from the Guest OS.

QNAP solve the challenges facing IT administrators: Hyperconverged Server (Application Server + Storage Server).

Use the QNAP TDS-16489U for your virtualization deployments. With the built-in Virtualization Station, the TDS-16489U can significantly reduce your total cost of

ownership and instantly transfer data from Guest OS to its internal storage through the high-speed 12Gb/s SAS bus. Previously, this would require two physical

servers and additional network equipment to achieve. The hyperconverged TDS-16489U, aggregates compute, networking, storage, and application server into a

single, scalable, affordable chassis.

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TDS-16489U

Primary

CPU

CPU

Core

CPU

Core

Application Scenario 1

GPU Pass-through for a Multitude of Applications

A Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a single processor with a massively parallel architecture of thousands of smaller cores making them ideal for handling multiple

tasks simultaneously. GPUs are used in highly-sophisticated engineering applications, and with OpenCL (Open Computing Language) and Microsoft

Compute Shader can be used in accelerating applications for general tasks such as transcoding and 3D animation & video rendering. The TDS-16489U supports

installing GPU cards, and combined with its processing power and massive storage, it can offer unprecedented performance and design flexibility for compute-

intensive applications.

CPU Transcoding

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Primary

®

DirectX 11

CPU

Transfer data

1

Execution signal

2

Transfer data

Execution signal

4

Transferred data

GPU

memory

Decoder

1 2 4

GPU

memory

3

Graphics Card

Decoder

Decode and process the original data

3

Decode and process the original data

Unified Memory

Architecture

Integrated entry-level

graphics core

Using video transcoding as an example, a GPU

MIMD

Data Pool

Instruction Pool

PU

PU

PU

PU

PU

PU

PU

PU

Transcoding by a GPU

GPU

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not only reduces the number of data transfers

but also processes parallel workloads more

efficiently than a CPU.

The use of GPU in virtualization has many challenges. There are no standardized modes of operation in virtualized platforms among GPUs. To fully leverage a GPU's

application-accelerating capabilities, the TDS-16489U uses a Pass-Through mode to dedicate one GPU to a single virtual machine and other GPUs to other virtual

machines. One virtual machine can be dedicated to exclusively run GPGPU computation, lifting the burden from the CPU for other jobs while significantly improving

overall system performance.

TDS-16489U, TVS-ECx80U-SAS, and TS-ECx80U models support GPU pass-through with AMD Radeon™ R7 and R9 series GPUs. (Please check the external

power supply requirements, and physical dimensions when selecting graphics cards to be installed on the NAS.)

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TDS-16489U

Application Scenario 2

Running Microsoft Exchange, MS SQL,
Active Directory, DNS, and Virtual Machines

▍Exchange Server 2016

Reliable messaging services help IT deliver the service levels and capabilities

demanded by end users, while helping organizations reduce their TCO through

areas such as server and site consolidation. Deploying Exchange servers requires

additional hardware, along with the requirements for storage space and backup

software, has driven up costs in the data center for procurement, deployment, and

energy use. Running Exchange Server on virtual machines vastly reduces costs

on all these fronts. Moreover, functions such as exporting, importing, backup and

snapshot facilitate centralized management and aid in management efficiency.

The dual Intel Xeon E5 processors and potentially large memory capacity of the

TDS-16489U makes it the perfect platform to build Exchange mail servers in a

virtualized environment. It offers not only the advantage of virtualization but also

the combined advantage of computing and storage in one system.

▍SQL Server

A database requires great scalability and flexibility in capacity planning and

management. Virtual machines running on the TDS-16489U can mount iSCSI

LUNs or shared folders via SAMBA to expand storage space on demand.

Moreover, our scale-up or scale-out NAS solution allows dynamic capacity

expansion by connecting JBOD expansion enclosures. The superior system

design of QNAP NAS supports a mix of storage networking standards and storage

media with server-grade computing in one system, providing you with the highest

performance and the best value for money, all in one solution.

▍AD (Active Directory), DNS (Domain Name System)

AD and DNS use less computing resources compared with other services in enterprise IT systems, making it more practical and economical to deploy them on a

virtual machine in lieu of a dedicated physical server.

Advantages:

By leveraging the combination of computing and storage on virtual machines, data exchange occurs inside the QNAP NAS through internal buses/

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interfaces, bypassing the limitation of network bandwidth between computers and storage servers.

The combination of computing and storage onto one system also saves money on acquiring networking devices and improves TCO with a smaller footprint.

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Tiered storage helps classify email attachments into hot and cold data to

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accelerate application efficiency and to enhance the user experience.

Use Snapshots or VM Backup to provide contingencies for unforeseen

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system failures and minimize downtime to improve business continuity. In

addition to data protection for virtual machines, the TDS-16489U also offers

block-level data protection on system volumes with snapshot technology.

Virtualization Station offers different networking modes by employing high-

performance virtual switches. The Isolated mode can be used to create a dedicated

and safe network environment. The External-only mode ensures that VM network

traffic can not be passed into the NAS by dedicating a network port for the VM. The

Bridged mode ensures that the NAS and the Virtual Switch can share the same

Ethernet interface and supports high-speed data transfer via internal routing.

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Variety

Velocity

Volume

1

Collection

Storage

2

Management

3

Processing

4

Visualization

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Application Scenario 3

Big Data Storage and Analytics

▍Big Data analytics with Spark/Hadoop

The boom of the Internet of Things

means that the amount of devices

that connect to the internet is rising

drastically. And with increasing

amounts of data being generated by

these devices, you need a storage

infrastructure that interacts at high

speed with your data. Intelligent storage

infrastructure solutions offered by QNAP

help boost your business applications,

accelerate time to insights, and help

you make data-driven decisions that will

empower your business and provide you

with competitive advantages.

Records
Transactions
Tables, files
Terebytes

Batch
Near-time
Real-time
Streams

TDS-16489U

Structured
Unstructured
Semi-structured
Mixed

5 Phases of Big Data analytics

Data collection: Terabytes of data are collected in a short amount of time from connected devices over the Internet. The TDS-16489U fully

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supports virtualization and containerization, making it possible to consolidate disparate data acquisition services (which were separately running

on Windows or Linux servers) all on a single physical server.

Data storage: The TDS-16489U provides the capacities and qualities required to support analytics workloads with the ability to efficiently reduce

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data storage demands e.g. deduplicating data at block-level across multiple TDS-16489U nodes. In addition, the TDS-16489U storage architecture

supports fault tolerance and provides the performance necessary to accommodate ever-changing workloads.

Data management: Aside from traditional file systems and relational databases (RDB), newer implementations such as Hadoop, and NoSQL/

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NewSQL can be easily deployed on the TDS-16489U.

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TDS-16489U

Data processing: The utilization of data for multi-vector analysis to support business intelligence is fundamental to Big Data analytics. Data

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scientists can use R or Java-based code to perform data analysis by using Hadoop/YARN, Spark, and Machine Learning libraries. The TDS-

16489U can fully benefit from hardware-accelerated graphics processors on virtual machines. The use of graphics processors on Hadoop

MapReduce can boost the performance of Big Data projects by 8-12 times.

Data presentation: The processed data should be presented in a way that helps users gain insights from data to inform decision making. Present

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your data efficiently by hosting websites on the TDS-16489U or via mobile apps.

MapReduce

Batch

Processing

Processing

VM VM

YARN Resource Manager

HDFS (Storage)

webserver

log le

ume

Spark

Iterative

webserver

log le

ume

VM

...

webserver

log le

ume

Examples would include analysis of website logs using Hadoop MapReduce or

Spark's Machine Learning libraries. The built-in Qtier technology on the TDS-16489U

can categorize the data into hot, warm, and cold by analyzing how frequently the data

has been accessed so that data can be migrated to nVME, SSD, SAS disks, or SATA

expansion enclosures accordingly.

Big data

Analytics

HDFS

Hot Path

Use Spark Streaming to perform predictive analytics by analyzing a website's workloads, click rates, and data from Global CDN. Dynamically adjusting system

resources enables the highest system utilization to be achieved among multiple TDS-16489U units on the local network or across different deployment sites.

HDFS

Cold Path

Virtual

Frontend

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Hardware specifications

TDS-16489U

Model

CPU

Memory (RAM)

Model Naming Convention

TDS-16489U-SA1

(E5-2620 2.4GHz hex-core CPU, 64GB DDR4 RDIMM)

TDS-16489U-SB2

(E5-2630 2.4GHz octa-core CPU, 128GB DDR4 RDIMM)

®

Intel

Xeon® E5-2600 v3 Family Processors

A

Intel® Xeon® 6 core Processor E5-2620 v3 (15M Cache, 2.40 GHz)

B

Intel® Xeon® 8 core Processor E5-2630 v3 (20M Cache, 2.40 GHz)

C

Intel® Xeon® 4 core Processor E5-2623 v3 (10M Cache, 3.00 GHz, 4 core) **

D

Intel® Xeon® 8 core Processor E5-2640 v3 (20M Cache, 2.60 GHz) **

System memory: RDIMM / LRDIMM
Total memory slots: 16
Memory expandable up to: 1 TB (64 GB x 16)

TDS-16489U-SA2

(E5-2620 2.4GHz hex-core CPU, 128GB DDR4 RDIMM)

TDS-16489U-SB3

(E5-2630 2.4GHz octa-core CPU, 256GB DDR4 RDIMM)

TDS-16489U-SA1

HDD/SSD
Interface

S: SAS interface

CPU

:

E5-2620 V3

A

:

E5-2630 V3

B

:

E5-2623 V3

C

:

E5-2640 V3

D

Memory

:

1

:

2

:

3

:

4

:

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64GB (8GB x 8 = 64GB RDIMM)
128GB (16GB x 8 = 128GB RDIMM)
256GB (32GB x 8 = 256GB RDIMM)
512GB (64GB x 8 = 512GB RDIMM)
1TB (64GB x 16 = 1TB RDIMM)

USB 2.0 / 3.0 2/2

Internal Hard Drive and Type

Max. Raw Capacity 128TB

Interface SAS 12Gb/s backward-compatible to SAS/SATA 6Gb/s

10/100/1000 Mbps 2

10Gbps 4 x SFP+, Intel XL710

PCIe slot 4 (3 x PCIe Gen3 x8, 1x PCIe Gen3 x16)

Cache M.2 Gen.2x4

Form Factor 3U, Rackmount

Dimensions (HxWxD) mm 88(H) x 442.5(W) x 530.5(D) mm

Power 650W (Redundant)

Fan Smart Fan 4 (6cm 12V DC)

Weight (Net/Gross) kg

Noise Sound Pressure Level (LpAm): 64.8 dB

Power Consumption

Design and specifications are subject to change without notice.

The standard system is shipped without hard drives. Check https://www.qnap.com/i/useng/product_x_

*

grade/index.php for HDD compatibility list.

with Customization options

**

16 x 3.5"SAS (12Gbps/6Gbps) / SATA (6Gbps/3Gbps) HDDs
4 x 2.5"SAS (12Gbps) SSD or SAS/SATA (6Gbps/3Gbps) SSD

Net (NAS)
Gross (with accessories and package)

Sleep mode: 254.21 W
In Operation: 362.86 W

：22.42 kg/ 49.43 lb

：30.19 kg/ 66.56 lb

，or 2.5"SAS/SATA SSD

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TDS-16489U

The harmonious integration of Application Server + Storage Server

TDS-16489U

Virtualization has faced many challenges, in particular the underlying infrastructure.
QNAP accepted this challenge and provides a comprehensive solution: Application Server + Storage Server

Hypercoverged NAS with License-Free Virtualization

Instant deployment without prior knowledge requirements. Stellar performance with
server-grade CPU and capacious memory. Support for third-party high-availability data
protection and storage virtualization solutions. Abundant expansion opportunities with NVMe
PCIe SSD and PCIe graphics cards. Built-in Software-defined Networking (vSwitch) for VMs with
1GbE/10GbE to negate network latency.

Built-in with multiple storage and virtualization applications

™

™

Snapshot

Efficiently reduces space for backup

Hybrid Backup Solutions

Consolidated backup solutions

Virtualization Station

QNAP proprietary virtualization

Software Container

The new era of virtualization and
cloud computing

QPulse

Unified Server Management Solution

Qtier

QNAP's auto-tiering technology

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