Qnap TVS-EC1580MU-SAS-RP-16G-R2, TVSEC1280USASRP8GER2 User Manual

TVS-ECx80U-SAS R2 Qtier™ vNAS 12Gbps SAS JBOD REXP-x20 Series

The world's first Intel Xeon E3 CPU unified auto tiering NAS that leverages performance optimized SSD, 12Gbps SAS and large capacity SATA HDD

HDD

High Capacity

SAS

High Performance

Use your Turbo vNAS as a PC

SSD

Ultra Performance

TVS-EC1580MU-SAS-RP R2

Qtier™ Technology

Qtier™ (QNAP auto tiering) automatically detects data on the different level of storage based on frequency of the data is accessed

Hybrid Backup and Restore

Local, remote and cloud backup management

Qsirch

Real time data seraching and mining

Built-in Dual-port

10GbE SFP+

Network Adapter

9 x 3.5” SSD/HDD

SAS R2

Storage Expansion

SAS R2

Based on tiered storage architecture with 256GB SSD cache acceleration

Virtualization Station and Container Station Provide the new era of the virtual computing

Unified storage management support iSCSI(File or Block based), NFS and Samba

Scale up storage with QNAP REXP-1220U-RP / REXP-1620U-RP expansion units, daisy chaining up to 8 units for total 1024TB raw capacity

Support ECC & Non ECC RAM

2.5’

12Gb/s

10/40

GbE

3.5’

Ready

6 x 2.5” SSD

SSD

cache

ECC

RAM

support

256GB

Snapshots

Reduce the backup space efficiently

TVS-EC2480U-SAS-RP R2

REXP-1620U-RP

TS-EC1280U-SAS-RP R2TVS-EC1680U-SAS-RP R2

REXP-1220U-RP

Overview

In the era of big data, there is a wealth of data generated and exchanged by the billion of devices on the Internet of Everything (IoE) and across hybrid cloud devices. The rampant data growth requires increasingly exible storage solutions that will ensure business continuity. QNAP has strived to provide enterprises and SMBs with the facilities and tools to attain storage services to meet the evergrowing capacity demand and results in reduced overall operation risks and costs.

Besides managing data growth, another major challenge for an organization is its ability to keep existing data available and protected in the event of a disaster or system failure. QNAP’s exible storage solutions incorporate features such as tiered storage, snapshots, thin provisioning, and LUN backup to better match specic business requirements and cope with disastrous situations.

The QNAP 12Gbps SAS is more reliable and has better storage I/O performance than the 6G model. Furthermore, it is backward compatible with 6Gbps SAS HDDs. Our 12Gbps JBOD Expansion enclosures not only strengthen the organization’s disaster recovery system but also satisfy the growing need to expand storage capacity at different stages as organizations seek to adapt to more demanding business environments.

QNAP NAS has demonstrated its ability to oer a complete product portfolio that ts for every SMB and small to medium enterprise, including a wide range of hard disk models and iSCSI SAN solutions.

Table of Contents

Unified Storage management and data protection

Qtier™ Technology

Snapshot

File Station 4.2, Management and Sharing

Hybrid Backup Solutions

QPulse™ Remote Management System

Q’center CMS (Central Management System)

Virtualization Station 2.0

Container Station 1.0

QvPC Technology

Virtualization Applications

QNAP NAS is DataCore Ready

Productivity Tools

myQNAPcloud 2.0

Qsync Central Center 2.0

Notes Station 2.1

Qsirch 2.1

Surveillance Station 5.1

App Center

Mobile Apps & Utilities

Computer Utilities

Hardware Introduction

40GbE Ready

10GbE/40GbE Application

QNAP 12Gbps SAS JBOD Expansion Enclosure

Hardware specification

JBOD Hardware / Accessory / 10GbE LAN card compatibility list

Software specification

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Unied Storage management and data protection

A converged management platform combining cloud and tiered storage technology

In addition to existing storage management and backup functions, the new Snapshot and Backup Versioning help you improve data security while lowering storage expenses. By integrating public cloud storage and backup services, your QNAP NAS is a converged storage management platform oering on-premise, private, osite, and cloud services.

Intelligent Storage Manager - Unied storage management

The QTS Storage Manager neatly presents tools and options for managing system storage with an intuitive graphical interface. From reviewing the system storage allocation in the Dashboard, to managing volumes, Storage Pools, disks and iSCSI storage, or even the new Snapshot function, the Storage Manager provides a centralized place to simplify hard drive management and to maximize storage usage.

Cloud Storage

Remote Folder

Volume

Cache Hot Spare RAID RAID

SSD

Folder iSCSI

LUN

Disk

(SAS/SSD/SATA)

Disk

(SAS/SSD/SATA)

Dashboard

The Storage Manager dashboard provides an overview for IT administrators to easily monitor and manage storage allocations. QTS 4.2 provides a more secure and exible way to store and manage data stored on your NAS. This next generation volume oers powerful features such as storage pooling with multiple RAID groups, thin-provisioned volumes with space reclamation, and online capacity expansion.

Disk

(SAS/SSD/SATA)

Snapshots

Storage Pool

Disk

(SAS/SSD/SATA)

Snapshot Replica

In addition to Storage Manager, IT administrators can also check volume status of shared folders with File Station.

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Storage management

IT administrators can monitor HDD allocation status for RAID groups in addition to individual HDD information. This ensures that there are no idle HDDs, maximizing utilization of the storage resources. IT administrators can aggregate multiple RAID groups into a single storage pool to flexibly utilize the storage capacity as a whole and protect them using redundancy, allowing for better protection against multiple disk failures for large-capacity environments. Multiple volumes can now be created on the Storage Pool to provide exible deployment.

Volume

QTS 4.2 supports the creation of multiple volumes within a Storage Pool. View all available storage pools, volumes, and iSCSI LUNs on the same screen including comprised RAID groups. This enables the expansion or removal of current pools and volumes, set threshold values for capacity consumption alerts, and RAID group management. Data volumes and LUNs can be extended without interrupting services.

• Thin provisioning

Over-allocation enables a server to view more storage capacity than has been allocated in a storage pool. Further, the physical storage capacity is used only when files are written by the application, improving utilization rates.

Efficiently use storage spaces with incremental allocation. Allocate all spaces specified and they cannot be used by other

• Thick provisioning

Physical storage capacity is dedicated during the initial allocation of the storage volume.

volumes or LUNs.

iSCSI (Block based LUN)

QTS 4.2 supports two types of LUNs for ecient storage utilization: block-level and le-level iSCSI LUNs. The Turbo vNAS also supports multiple types of congurations for server connections:

single LUN or multiple LUNs per iSCSI target.

multiple iSCSI targets for a single LUN, only used for clustered environments

• Block-Level iSCSI LUN

Deploy block-level iSCSI LUN as volumes to reduce overhead and improve overall read/write performance.

• File-Level iSCSI LUN

File-level iSCSI LUNs can be used to create a disk image for an iSCSI LUN where storage space is a premium.

Both block-level and file-level iSCSI LUNs support thin provisioning, space reclamation, and online capacity expansion. We recommend using block-level iSCSI LUNs unless there is a limitation on space usage.

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Set as Stack Master

Virtual Disk Drives increase storage expansion exibility

Virtual disks provide a flexible way for IT administrators to expand storage. By using the built-in iSCSI initiator to connect an iSCSI target of the Turbo NAS, you can create a virtual disk on the local server. The Turbo NAS can act as a stack master to connect up to 8 virtual disks or stack targets, aggregating storage space from multiple NAS systems. NAS users then only need to connect to a single target to access the space from all of the network storage devices.

Turbo vNAS

iSCSI

LUN B

Set as Stack Target

Turbo vNAS

LUN A

LUN B

LUN C

LUN CLUN A

CIFS (SAMBA)

Server Message Block (SMB), a version of which is known as Command Internet File System (CIFS), is the default le-sharing service on QNAP NAS. It is mainly used for sharing les among systems using this protocol, such as Windows and Unix-like systems and can also be used as a primary domain controller (PDC).

NFS

QTS 4.2 supports Network File System (NFS), which allows a server to share directories and les with clients over a network. With NFS, client computers can mount file systems over a network. Users can access shared files on these file systems as though they are mounted locally.

SAS and SATA storage system performance comparison

SAS-enabled storage systems deliver better IOPS performance and are ideal for applications requiring large amounts of random accessing such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and Mail Servers.

63,000

54,000

45,500

36,000

27,000

18,000

9,000

Seagate 12Gbps SSD SAS

HGST 12Gbps SAS 15K

Seagate SAS 2.5”

Seagate NL SAS

Seagate SATA

62,248

47,468

6,527

5,195

4,300

56,000

48,000

40,000

32,000

24,000

16,000

8,000

Seagate 12Gbps SSD SAS

HGST 12Gbps SAS 15K

Seagate SAS 2.5”

Seagate NL SAS

Seagate SATA

56,502

30,498

4,835

2,832 2,441

(Write)

MB/S

Random IOPS

Testing environment Seagate ST200FM0053(2.5'' 12Gbps SAS), HGST HUC156030CS4200 (2.5'' 12Gbps SAS, 15,000), Seagate ST9300653SS (2.5" 6Gbps SAS, 15,000) x8, Seagate ST4000NM0023 (NL-SAS) x8, Seagate ST4000NM0033 (SATA) x 8 RAID Type : RAID5. 4K Random 100% write, 4K Random 100% read.

Hard drive

Write 62,248 47,468 6,527 5,195 4,300

Seagate 12Gbps

SAS SSD

HGST 12Gbps 15K SAS HDD

Seagate 2.5"

SAS HDD

(Read)

Seagate NL-

SAS HDD

Seagate SATA

HDD

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QNAP high-performance unied and tiered storage solutions

Data used by enterprises continues to grow exponentially and with greater diversity in data types and importance. It is imperative to oer a secure and ecient storage solution that can process this enormous amount of data while minimizing the total cost of ownership.

Establishing a tiered storage system based on eciency and capacity can aid in improving overall processing eciency.

Enterprises can classify data accordingly by sharing folders with a le-based storage system and processing les that require more demanding data throughput with a block-based storage system to accommodate dierent usage models.

QNAP Turbo vNAS business series can exibly congure dierent tiers to hard drives on a single unit according to dierent data usage needs, delivering the best unied and tiered storage solution.

Tiered storage architecture optimizes storage efficiency

Nowadays, business needs for big data storage keeps increasing. It is crucial that businesses can utilize cost-efficient storage solutions featuring tiered architecture to tackle Hot Data (frequently-used data) and Cold Data (less-used data) applications with the exible conguration of storage devices to boost storage eciency.

In order to achieve the goal of tiered storage, generally organizations choose SAS Controllerbased storage system, such as QNAP’s enterprise-class SAS-enabled Turbo NAS models.

As different storage devices vary in features, businesses have to thoroughly assess their storage needs in performance and capacity to choose the right business hard drives for maximum cost efficiency. The following illustration shows the tiered storage architecture.

Tier 0

Tier 1

Performance

Tier 2

Tier 3

Capacity

PCIE -SSD

SSD

SAS HDD

NL-SAS & SATA HDD

Storage tiers

Device Used

Needs

Usage Scenarios

Data Usage Examples

Data Status

Measurement Standard

Tier 0 Storage Tier 1 Storage Tier 2 Storage Tier 3 Storage

PCI-E SSD or Highperformance SSD

Low latency and high performance but with lower capacity

Online transaction processing (OLTP) database, online analytical processing (OLAP)

Records and logs, paging le metadata or index le, replication of VM and VDI connections, merging of I/O and performance

Operating data Mainly operating data

Focuses on high IOPS and low latency, low capacity needs; high cost.

SSD SAS HDD NL-SAS and SATA HDD

Performance, capacities and availability

Online database server, ERP database

Operating les, emails, networks, database tables, audio, video, VM and VDI, hosts

Focuses on IOPS, bandwidth, reliability and low capacity needs.

Lower performance and cost, larger capacity

Mail server, snapshot, online archive, large amount of data

Main directory, data acquisition, disk-to-disk (D2D) backup/restore

Mixed with operating and idle data

Focuses on space capacity and reliability; cost is relatively low for highdensity capacities.

Lowest cost and maximum capacity; suitable for inactive or static data

Oine archive, backup copy, disaster recovery, long-term data retention.

Applications with low-cost or high energy-saving

Mainly idle or inactive data

Focuses on space capacities and cost; lower cost per terabyte.

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Comparison of storage devices

The following is a comprehensive comparison of general tiered storage devices.

Hard Drive

Features

Price

Capacity

Interface

Performance

RPM

External Continuous Transfer Performance

Average Response Time (Milliseconds)

Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS)

Unrecoverable bit read error

Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF, hours)

Reliability

SAS Solid State Drive (SSD) SAS Hard Drive Nearline SAS Hard

Drive

Low power consumption, no noise, anti-vibration, low heat, fast speed

$$$$$ $$$$ $$$ $$$

100GB~800GB 300GB~1.8TB 500GB~6TB 500GB~8TB

SAS (Dual Port) / SATA (Single Port) 12 Gb/s, 6 Gb/s

Very high High Moderate Moderate-low

N/A 10,000-RPM 15,000-RPM 7200-RPM 5,900-RPM 7,200-RPM

800 MB/sec 200 MB/sec 170 MB/sec 170 MB/sec

Less than 0.1 ms 4 ms R:9.5/W:8.5 ms R:9.5/W:8.5 ms

120,000/40,000 (IOPS) > 200 (IOPS) 200~150 (IOPS) < 100 (IOPS)

1 LBA per 10E16 1 LBA per 10E16 1 LBA per 10E15 1 LBA per 10E14

N/A 2 million 1.4 million 0.8 million

N/A Very high High Moderate

Lower latency, high reliability, best performance in traditional hard drives

SAS (Dual Port) 12 Gb/s, 6 Gb/ s

Good reliability, large capacity

SAS (Dual Port) 6 Gb/s SATA (Single Port) 6 Gb/s

SATA Hard Drive

Large capacity, lower reliability and performance

SAS interfaces bring you the high performance

The major advantage of the SAS interface is full-duplex data transmission; it is dierent from the half-duplex provided by SATA. SAS is able to simultaneously process two dierent I/O operations, data transmitted in both directions at the same time. In addition, SAS features excellent scalability; each SAS port is able to correspond to as many as 16,384 hard drives (in theory), in contrast each

SATA port can only correspond to one hard drive. The SAS interface oers far higher scalability than the SATA interface.

The diagram below shows the TVS-ECx80U-SAS R2 with a 12Gb/s SAS controller, connecting to a CPU with a PCIe Gen3 x 8 (64Gb/ s) bus to provide extremely high throughput. The 12Gb/s SAS ports connect to hard disk drives giving each dedicated bandwidth and an individual command set. Both SATA and SAS are serial device interfaces that use simplied cabling, smaller connectors, lower pin counts, and lower power requirements than parallel SCSI. The 12G SAS is capable of much higher data transfer, unlocking the full potential of PCI Express 3.0 based systems and solid state storage solutions.

JBOD

x24

CPU

PCle Gen.3 x 8

64Gbps

12Gbps SAS

Controller

3008

12Gbps x 4

Mini SAS

Conn.

12Gbps SAS

SAS 12Gbps x 8 SAS 12Gbps x 24

Expander

3 x 36

TVS-ECx80U-SAS R2 12Gbps SAS model block diagram

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(5Gb/s)

The SATA controller uses PCIe Gen2 x1

or Gen2 x2

to the PCIe Gen2 x1 with 5Gb/s while providing connections to two SATA 6Gb/s HDDs. The two SATA 6Gb/s HDDs

(10Gb/s)

. The TS-x80U SATA diagram shows how the SATA controller connects

(12Gb/s total)

share the maximum available bandwidth of 5Gb/s. Each of the SATA ports therefore can only use 3Gb/s bandwidth despite theirtransfer capability of 6Gb/s. As such, the SATA controller limits the overall performance.

The overall performance will be dramatically drop QNAP lab do the samba performance with 4 clients on single RAID 0 x 12 SSD volume. The volume will have 4800MB/S bandwidth. DMI Gen2x4 only have 2000MB/s bandwidth.

The test result: TVS-EC80U-SAS R2 has 18% sequential read performance and 37% sequential write performance enhancement over 80U-SATA.

PCle Gen.2 x 1

5Gbps

6Gbps SATA

Controller

9215

SATA 6Gbps x 1

SATA 6Gbpsx 1

18% 37%

3500

x24

Mother

PCle Gen.2 x 1

5Gbps

Board

TS-x80U R2 SATA model block diagram

6Gbps SATA

Controller

9215

SATA 6Gbps x 1

2625

1750

875

TVS-EC2480U-SAS R2

Read

Write

TS-EC2480U R2

SATA is marketed as a general-purpose successor to parallel ATA and has become popular in the consumer market, whereas the SAS targets critical server applications. Furthermore, SAS is full duplex, whereas SATA is half duplex. The SAS transport layer can transmit data at the full speed of the link in both directions at once.

The previous SAS model, TS-x79U-SAS model, is a 6Gbps SAS model that use the 6Gbps SAS controller connect with PCIe Gen.2x8 (40Gbps). The TVS-ECx80U-SAS R2 12Gbps SAS model total bandwidth (64Gbps) is much higher than the TS-x79U-SAS model (40Gbps). The 12Gbps SAS backend performance is 37% dramatically higher than 6Gbps SAS model that can provide the usable data bandwidth.

JBOD

x24

PCle Gen.2 x 8

CPU

TS-x79U-SAS 6G SAS model block diagram

40Gbps

6Gbps SAS

Controller

2008

6Gbps x 4

Mini SAS

Conn.

6Gbps SAS

SAS 6Gbps x 8 SAS 6Gbps x 24

Expander

2 x 36

Reference the SAS history from the wiki,

Gbps

37%

performance

improve

6Gbps SAS PCle

Gen.2 x8

TS-x79U-SAS TVS-ECx80U-SAS R2

12Gbps SAS PCle

Gen.3 x8

SAS-1: 3.0 Gbit/s, introduced in 2005

SAS-2: 6.0 Gbit/s, available since February 2009

SAS-3: 12.0 Gbit/s, available since March 2013

PCI Express version

 SAS-4: 24.0 Gbit/s, under development and expected in 2017

1 8b/10b 2.5 GT/s 2 Gbit/s (250 MB/s)

2 8b/10b 5 GT/s 4 Gbit/s (500 MB/s)

3 8b/10b 8 GT/s 7.877 Gbit/s (984.6 MB/s)

4 128b/130b 16 GT/s 15.754 Gbit/s (1969.2 MB/s)

Line code Transfer rate Bandwidth Per Line

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Enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD)

The key components of an SSD are the controller and the memory to store the data. There are no moving parts, thus no restrictions due to mechanical limitations. It reduces the problems of using high RPM for high performance, achieves better IOPS performances than traditional hard drives, and decreases heat and power consumption and relative cost. However, at this time SSD storage capacity is very limited, causing a very high unit storage space and making SSDs more suitable for IOPSdemanding applications rather than for storage purposes.

Mainstream SSDs are divided into two types: SLC and MLC. SLC SSDs: High access times (approximately 100K access times), high cost. MLC SSDs: Low access times (approximately 10K access times), low cost. SLC SSDs are more suitable for write-intensive applications and MLC SSD is more suitable for read-intensive applications.

Enterprise 15,000 RPM SAS hard drives

The main selections for enterprise mission critical SAS hard drives are 15,000 RPM or 10,000 RPM, generally used for Tier1 storage. The enterprise 15,000 RPM SAS hard drive uses a high RPM to provide superior performances compared to average hard drives and features higher security with higher mean time to failure, lower read errors, higher support, and more. The enterprise 15,000 RPM SAS hard drive is widely used due to its high reliability and high performance. However, because of its high cost and less storage space oering, it is mostly used with Near-line SAS HDDs for certain applications.

Large capacity SAS hard drives

Dealing with Cold Data, the data with less usage frequency, large capacity and low-cost Near-Line SAS hard drive is the ideal choice for businesses. Near-Line SAS hard drives features large capacity, high availability and high support, fulfilling businesses’ big data storage needs with lower cost while only yielding slight decreases in performance.

SATA

3Gbps

SATA/SAS

6Gbps

SAS

12Gbps

SATA hard drives

Generally SATA hard drives have slower performance and lower reliability, but it is perfect for general applications and massive data storage due to its larger capacity and lower cost.

SAS SSD Real Time Storage:

Suitable for real-time operations

SAS SSD

requiring super-high performance and IOPS

High-frequency transactions, online banking, cloud computing, online games, big data analysis, etc.

Tiered

Storage

SAS

HDD

SAS HDD Ultra-speed storage:

Suitable for applications requiring frequent accessing and high stability

Virtualization computing, real-time video storage and editing, ERP systems, etc.

NL SAS /

SATA HDD

NL SAS/SATA HDD General storage:

Suitable for backup data requiring large storage capacity but less performance and access frequency

Secondary backup, small-scale office applications, general surveillance monitoring, etc.

SSD RAID Group

SAS RAID Group

SATA RAID Group

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Qtier™ Technology

Exceptional performance in balancing hot & cold data in large storage environments

An intelligent auto-tiering solution that provides high exibility in large storage environments by recognizing hot and cold data while also providing the lowest TCO per gigabyte cost, superior system performance and management eciency.

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.

SSD RAID Group

SAS RAID Group

SATA RAID Group

Please enable Auto-tiering when creating a Storage Pool.

Storage Pool

Before

SSD SAS NL-SAS

Most Frequent Normal Activity Seldom Activity

After

SSD SAS NL-SAS

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QNAP Auto-tiering architecture

• Data migration based on Transaction-based B-tree Update

Auto Tiering

Scheduler

Hot

High Speed Tier High Capacity Tier

SSD / SAS

The goal of the auto-tiering function on the QNAP NAS is to optimize the use of the storage infrastructure by simultaneously improving storage utilization and performance:

 Move frequently used data onto fast disks for

high-availability or high I/O cache throughput

 Move less frequently used data onto low-cost,

high-capacity disks for better cost eciency

To achieve the required level of performance and cost benets, data is categorized based on access frequency. Service levels such as response times or runtime must be measured and evaluated in advance to decide which data must be stored at a given time in a certain tier.

Data Movement

Engine

Cold Cold

Hot

SATA / NL-SAS

Data Movement

and Detection

Algorithm Engine

Cold

Based on the results of B-tree calculation, the NAS will automatically move data blocks with higher weights to higher tier (e.g. moving data blocks from HDD RAID Group to SSD RAID Group). Here data migration and metadata update will not interfere with normal IO; therefore, transaction-based B-tree update will avoid problems with data integrity.

You can get the statistics of all data waiting to be processed as well as finishing processed in this phase. If the administrators need to do administrative tasks or there are bandwidth requirements for external connections, they can stop data migration in this phase. Furthermore, assigning weights can help adjust bandwidth allocation or alleviate congestion between external IO and internal data migration.

3 levels of tiered storage

Qtier™ offers a 3-tier configuration, namely, ultrahigh speed (SSD), high speed (SAS) and high capacity (SATA/NL-SAS) for a combination of dierent disk drives:

Tier 1 (Ultra-high Speed): SSD drives

Tier 2 (High Speed): SAS drives

Tier 3 (Capacity): SATA or NL-SAS drives

Detailed and visualized statistics for performance analysis

Historical data assists users in performance tuning and storage provisioning, enabling accurate adjustment of auto-tiering policies.

User-dened policies for better auto-tiering eciency

Policy dened auto-tiering enables dynamic reallocation of data corresponding to the performance requirements of the data or applications in addition to scheduling and prioritization of data migration.

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The following is a comprehensive comparison of storage technologies:

Qtier™ Full SSD SSD Cache

Costs $ $$ $

Storage space Big Small Big

Available SSD space

Data migration method

Data migration mechanism

Application scenarios

Extends as needed Extends as needed Limited by available memory

Scheduled No Automatic

Moves data according to access frequency All data is in SSD storage

Typically used for predictable I/O workloads such as le/web/e-mail servers and application virtualization or video editing

Typically used for applications requiring fast/intensive I/O such as databases or virtualized environments

Replicates frequently accessed data to SSD storage

Typically used in a highly frequent data access environment such as virtualized applications or high-resolution video or audio processing

Qtier™ with SSD Cache for around-the-clock acceleration

Qtier™ fully supports concurrent tiering and SSD caching. In this mode, Qtier™ constantly monitors I/O activity and keeps active data that requires small, mostly random, read and write operations in SSD Read-only or Readwrite cache and other data in the tiered storage automatically moving data between the appropriate tiers. QNAP unied and tiered storage is an intelligent, automated storage system for managing data placement to help optimize performance and cost requirements in multi-tier congurations.

Cache

SSD

Volume / LUN

Tiered Space

Qtier™ Technology is a convenient, economical and insightful way to store and balance your active (hot) and archived (cold) data. The intelligent Auto-tiering feature allows you to have your frequently-accessed data on high-speed SSD in the NAS for quick access and high performance. At the same time, you still have access to your archived and seldom-used data on the NAS’s SAS and SATA drives. This provides the versatility of extreme performance, a large storage capacity and a lower cost per gigabyte to store and balance your data.

Storage Pool

SSD HDD JBOD

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Snapshot

Block – Level Local Snapshot and Snapshot Replica —An Ecient and economical way to protect les

QNAP’s Whole Volume/LUN Snapshot Agent records the status of les using the Copy on Write mechanism. This helps in recovering les to a previously saved state in case of accidental deletion or modication and meeting enterprise requirements of improving Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

Benets of QNAP Snapshot

The block-based QNAP snapshot technology can assist in saving space and reserve snapshots for future use as different from traditional backup, block-level snapshot technology will only backup the modified part of a file. QNAP Snapshot supports up to 256 snapshots for each volume or LUN, up to 1024 snapshots for the whole system.

A B C

Block Level

File Level

Only modied data is backed up to save space and increase eciency. Whole data backup (higher space requirement and reduced eciency).

Snapshot Replica RTRR Rsync NAS to NAS

Data Format

Backup Format

Modified File

Handling

Time

Volume / LUN Shared Folder Shared Folder Shared Folder

Block-based File-level le-based File-level block-based File-Level block-based

Only back up modied le Re back up whole le Compare source and destination les and

Scheduled Real time/ Scheduled Scheduled Scheduled

Snapshoot1

Snapshoot2

A B C

A B C1

Only modied data is backed up to save space and increase eciency.

Backup 2 will back up the whole le every time and increase the space and bandwidth requirement.

transmit only changed data blocks

Encryption

Compression

Memory

Requirement

Remote System

Using Scenario

• Lot of small data

• Large le that need continues modication

Supported Supported Supported Supported

4GB RAM Required No Requirement No Requirement No Requirement

QNAP NAS QNAP NAS Rsync Server QNAP NAS

(VM image or backup image)

• Real time replication or synchronization

• Fast transmit within local LAN

• Large le that need continues modication

• Transmit in long distance

Local Snapshot to provide continuous data protection

• File-level recovery

The low-impact, small-sized, and user recoverable snapshots offer more benefits of storage administration compared to traditional le copies, which are often stored as a single large data le. For instance, you can choose to recover a le in a folder or the entire folder instantly with a few clicks.

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• High Flexibility

Snapshots can be used with iSCSI LUNs and Volumes in QNAP NAS and Expansion Units to achieve full protection. On the other hand, Snapshot Replica allows you to transfer your snapshot to a remote QNAP NAS for backup.

Turbo NAS and JBOD Volume

Snapshot / Snapshot Clone

iSCSI LUN

• Data visibility

The QNAP Snapshot provides tools in Storage Manager to help you find specific files to recover. You can easily view files and folders in a snapshot and browse through dierent snapshots displayed in chronological order. In addition, le recovery just takes a few clicks, increasing operational eciency.

• The files in a snapshot clone can be

freely edited by users.

Clone a snapshot as a volume or LUN for quick file access, eliminating long restore times and reserving sizeable space for storing backups. The files in a snapshot clone can be freely edited by users.

Snapshot

Volume

Remotely store Snapshot

• Rsync/RTRR integration

The Rsync/RTRR functions in Backup Station automatically detect whether the system supports Snapshots. The RTRR/ Rsync functions take snapshots of the volume before starting replication and then back up snapshots to a remote server. This greatly enhances data integrity.

• Windows Previous Versions Supports

Snapshots enables Windows users to restore files directly using the Windows previous versions feature in Windows explorer, to save time and effort without requiring IT administrators’ support.

• Remote Snapshot Replica prevents data loss

Snapshot Replica

The Remote Snapshot Replica enables you to replicate volume/LUNs between different remote servers using snapshot technology, which helps to reduce storage consumption and bandwidth. Either take the snapshot immediately or set up a snapshot schedule. It is considered one of the most comprehensive strategies for data backup.

iSCSI LUN

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Snapshot Vault

Snapshot Vault is the backup center for storing and managing every snapshot created remotely from another QNAP NAS. It is also capable of cloning a snapshot (with specied les in a snapshot) as a local volume for data access. comprehensive strategies for data backup.

NAS- to-NAS Snapshot Replica

Replication source Replication destination

Snapshot replication on an expansion unit (Independent Storage Pool)

Volumes of QNAP NAS &

Expansion Unit

Local snapshot

Snapshot replication on a remote NAS unit

Snapshot

Volume

One-to-Many & Many-to-One Snapshot Replication

Replication source Replication destination

Snapshot Vault

Volume of NAS1

Volume of NAS2

Volume of NAS3

Local Snapshot

on each NAS

Remote NAS

Remote Snapshot Replica with

Snapshot Vault to manage

snapshots from other NAS units

• Managing snapshots remotely from another NAS

Use the Clone function to clone (or mount) a snapshot from the Snapshot Vault as a volume or iSCSI LUN on a QNAP NAS. Directly access these les through File Station or Backup Station. Use an iSCSI initiator to connect to a cloned iSCSI LUN from another computer.

• Replication Settings

To minimize the risk of data breach, the Snapshot Replica provides the option of file encryption. It also provides file compression and transfer rate adjustment to lower bandwidth consumption.

• Application Consistent Snapshots with Snapshot Agent

Snapshot Agent, used for iSCSI LUN, allows connecting the Turbo NAS with the remote servers (VMware vCenter or Windows Server) to ensure consistent snapshots. On those remote servers, the running applications (VMware virtual machines, Hyper-V virtual machines, SQL server, Windows file server…) will write/flush the data from the memory to the iSCSI LUN prior the snapshot is taken. The application will then be consistent and include all necessary data. In case of snapshot restoration, no data will be missing.

Snapshot Agent also includes VSS Hardware Provider for Windows to allow taking snapshot on the NAS from the backup software use on Windows server. The Snapshot process can be ooaded to the NAS and reduce the loading on the server.

VSS Hardware Provider Work Flow

The Backup software sends

a snapshot request to Windows

Snapshot Agent VSS

hardware provider

Turbo NAS receive the request and

takes a snapshot for iSCSI LUN

The system may temporarily stop to operate during ushing data to LUN

Windows VSS ush the data to iSCSI LUN and

send the request to VSS hardware provider

Turbo NAS send back the snapshot for Backup software to conduct the backup job

Snapshot Agent Work Flow

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Snapshot Agent active VSS in windows

to ush data to iSCSI LUN

iSCSI LUN

The system may temporarily stop to operate during ushing data to LUN

Snapshot Agent

Snapshot Agent replay that

snapshot can be done

Or do a VMware snapshot of all the VM in the iSCSI LUN

QNAP and Acronis True Image® BackupSoluation

QTS is compatible with various renowned backup software including Acronis® True ImageTM, Symantec® Backup Exec, and many others. Backup entire disk drives, documents, pictures, music, videos, fonts, emails, and more – to one or multiple NAS units. With a very simple setup process, you can set up real-time backups and fully automated scheduled backups. Mac users can also use Time Machine® to back up les from Mac workstations.

Backup source

Windows/Mac

Restoration

Use Acronis True Image®

to restore files

Acronis True Image®

.tib backup file

Turbo NAS need to

start a snapshot job

Turbo NAS need to start a snapshot job

Backup destination Restoration

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Data storage

Snapshot Replica

Remote scheduled

backup

Restoration of remote snapshot (using a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick) to restore .tid files to the source or other computers

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Remote backup site

The Acronis True Image® Logo and related material are belong Acronis International GmbH, for more information please check http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/computer-backup/

• QNAP Snapshot Replica with Industry 4.0 Using Scenario

In production site, business now look into the concept of industry 4.0 and continue to allow manufacturing process become more intelligent and automatic, while data analysis must be in real time to maximum it’s benefit, you can setup a Warm Database for analysis using TVS-ECx80U-SAS R2 series and Snapshot Replica, allowing near real time data analysis while reducing the loading on the production site’s data center.

Production Site Data Center Data Analysis Center

Analysis Report back to

production site for

continued improvement

Scheduled Snapshot Replica to continues transmit data to

Analysis Center to conduct analysis

Using TS-ECx80U R2 computing power to

generate Analysis Report

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File Station 4.2

Manage all files from a single management window

With the new remote connection function, the File Station now enables management of les on local, remote, and cloud storage across geographical boundaries and platforms from a single window anywhere.

In the past, you needed to log into dierent devices individually for data migration or copying.

Cloud storage Personal computer Local or remote NAS

Now, File Station 4.2 supports remote connection.

• Supports connecting to six cloud

services: Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, Amazon Cloud Drive, and Yandex Disk.

• Three remote device network

protocols:

1. CIFS: Supports online streaming and thumbnail

display when Microsoft Networking (SMB/ CIFs) is selected. Allows a single folder to be mounted on your local network or when the NAS connects to a VPN service.

2. FTP: Allows every folder to be mounted when

using the FTP service for easy access to remote data.

3. WebDAV: Allows a single folder to be mounted

on local network or over the Internet. WebDAV uses the HTTP protocol over the standard HTTP port, making accessing les via WebDAV similar to downloading les from a webpage.

Network communication protocols

Manage all les from a single management program

4GB

CIFS／SMB

Cloud storage

External devices

CIFS

LAN

NAS

• Also supports searching for devices

on the same network via FTP or CIFS.

Note 1: Please install Connect to Cloud Drive from

the App Center before connecting to cloud services.

FTP / WebDAV

NAS on the LAN

Remote NAS

Cloud storage

File Station interface

Folders in tree structure:

Presents the locations of data in an easy-to-read format.

Remote connection:

View remote connections here

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Three browsing modes are available:

icon, list, and detailed list.

Features many functions for easier le management.

Preview for Microsoft Oce les:

• Preview Microsoft Oce les oine with a Chrome browser extension (Chrome browser only and with the Oce Editing for

Docs, Sheets & Slides Chrome extension installed from Chrome Web Store) in the File Station.

Support for le types: .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, and .pptx.

Also supports the online preview of Microsoft Oce les with Oce Online and Google Docs in the File Station.

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Multimedia streaming

Video:

• On-the-fly transcoding enables you to watch a video

while it is being converted in real time. (Please note that on-the-fly transcoding is only available on certain models.)

• Background transcoding enables you to convert video

into different resolutions and formats suitable for multiple devices and multiple networks.

• In addition, playback with VLC player for online video

streaming is now supported.

Photo:

• All new interface with added support for viewing a wider

range of picture formats.

• Playback photos as a slideshow, or set a photo as the QTS

wallpaper directly from the picture viewer.

• Additionally, photo rotation is now supported.

Music:

• Added support for direct playback of even more music

formats.

Smart zonal streaming

Stream multimedia les to dierent devices via Apple TV, DLNA, or Chromecast from the File Station.

DLNA-compatible TV

DLNA-compatible media player

Upgraded sharing functions

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Share space with a user:

System administrators can allocate space to NAS users, and specify a storage quota in File Station.

Share/Upload

Send users a notication of the access link via email when sharing space with a user to streamline the process.

•

Directly share with other NAS users:

• CloudLink enables le sharing from anywhere especially when your network environment does not support port forwarding.

Just log in to myQNAPcloud from your NAS, create a share link with CloudLink, and then share the link with others.

•

Share download links via email:

 Users can share links from their own email account.

 Supports multiple email accounts.

Share les directly to selected NAS users rather than setting shared folder permissions.

•

Share with social networks:

•

Create share links only:

messengers for others to access it.

•

Mutual ﬁle sharing:

le upload to this folder” option, your friends will be able to upload les to your File Station without a user account. Set an expiration time for shared les.

You can easily share several les in a shared folder with friends via a Share Link. By enabling the “Allow

You can paste the Share Links on social networks of your choice.

Create a share link for files or folders and copy & paste it into forums, websites, and instant

File or folder operations and management

With File Station, you can easily carry out common tasks like uploading, downloading, and managing les.

• Streamlined le operations such as rename, copy, move and delete.

• Compress/Extract multiple les: Choose multiple les in File Station and select “More Actions” > “Compress (Zip)” to compress

the les to a Zip le. Alternatively, you can extract content from a Zip le.

• Instant photo preview: File Station displays thumbnails of photos, album covers, and videos to aid in categorizing and

organizing multimedia les.

• File/Folder Property inspection: You can quickly inspect a le or folder’s detailed properties from its Properties window.

• Auto transcoding: Set a folder as an auto-transcoding folder with its Properties window on the right pane. The Turbo NAS will

automatically convert the videos in this folder to the resolution you have set.

• Media Folders: Similarly, you can designate a folder as a media folder and specify the type of les (photos, videos, music, etc.)

that the media scanner should index from the Properties window.

• File upload: Move les from a local PC/Mac to File Station by drag-and-drop to upload the les to the Turbo NAS easily.

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Hybrid Backup Solutions

Hybrid cloud for a consolidated backup solution

The QTS allows data on PCs, servers, virtual machines, and external drives to be backed up to the Turbo NAS; and provides disaster recovery solutions to back up data on the Turbo NAS to external devices or remote servers.

Backup from computer to NAS - PC backup

Windows® users can install the free QNAP NetBak Replicator utility to back up files from Windows® PC - entire disk drives, documents, pictures, music, videos, fonts, emails, and more – to one or multiple Turbo NAS units.

With simple clicks, you can set up real-time backup, scheduled backup and auto-backup. You can set power o after the backup is nished to save energy; le ltering to exclude les not to back up; and email notication when backup is completed.

3rd party backup software

QTS is compatible with various renowned backup software such as Acronis® True Image and Symantec® Backup Exec. Users that have adopted such backup software can immediately back up data from other sources to the Turbo NAS.

Virtualization backup server

The Turbo NAS is compatible with VMware® ESX server, Citrix® XenServer, and Microsoft® Hyper-V, enabling your QNAP NAS to be seamlessly integrated to a virtualized environment as extended storage for data backup.

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QJBOD Express

The new QJBOD Express enables quick back up or migration of large amounts of data to local or to remote sites without using any network bandwidth.

San Francisco to Los Angeles: Initial transfer costs for 50TB data

Method Time cost Bandwidth cost

100Mbps network About 45 days 50TB

QJBOD Express In two days 0

Back up 50TB data to remote site

Back up data to the JBOD

Connect the JBOD and create an encrypted volume for backup. “Safely Detach” the JBOD after the backup job is

completed.

Transportation

Transport the JBOD to a remote site.

San Francisco Los Angles

Finish backup job

Connect and scan the JBOD. Create the final

incremental backup job.

The remote NAS must support JBOD expansion to

use this feature.

JBODJBOD

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Complete backup and access —anytime, anywhere

The explosive growth of data brings challenges of data protection and management. Unless an organization has the necessary knowledge and a disaster recovery strategy to protect and recover data, data integrity and data security will continue to present a problem. Hybrid Backup Restore assists you in managing and planning backup strategies (including local, remote-site, and cloud backups) with its centralized management capability even in the most complex data environments.

The HybridCloud Backup/Restore App will be available in the App Center in Q3, 2015.

Local Backup

Use the One Touch Copy button on the front panel of the NAS to quickly backup data to or from external USB devices or disks.

Remote-site Backup

With the RTRR service on the QNAP NAS, backing up data to your NAS is a simple and easy process. Your computer or your NAS can be the source, destination, or relay server during the backup process. Access or back up les with the “Remote Connection” function in File Station using Microsoft® file sharing (CIFS/SMB) or FTP to mount external folders as if they were local.

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Smart Version Control

Real-Time Remote Replication (RTRR) version control enables saving backup files to time based versions. In case of an incident, les can be restored to earlier backedup versions specified by time and date. Smart versioning enables you to create backup versions hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. Alternatively, simple versioning keeps a fixed number of versions for a given period and automatically rotates stored versions.

Remote backup monitoring

System administrators can now monitor backup jobs from remote servers with QTS 4.2’s Backup Station. The Incoming List displays the status of backup jobs from other NAS servers that use the current NAS as a target destination for their backup.

Two-way shared folder synchronization

Use RTRR (Real-Time Remote Replication) service to set up real-time or scheduled synchronization of shared folders between two Turbo NAS units. With two-way synchronization, file backup consistency is improved and is especially helpful in synchronization and collaboration across departments and branch oces.

Cloud Backup

Protecting against potentially disastrous data loss is of paramount importance for all businesses regardless of size. A QNAP Turbo NAS is a comprehensive backup and recovery solution to back up not only les for all devices on the LAN, but also for remote-site NAS units and servers. Furthermore, QNAP Turbo NAS fully supports backup from the Turbo NAS to online cloud storage services (e.g. Amazon® S3, Amazon® Glacier, Microsoft® Azure, Google® Cloud Storage*, IBM® SoftLayer, HP® Cloud, Rackspace®, and ElephantDrive®). The QTS powerful and comprehensive Backup Station makes backup and recovery simpler for all business's disaster recovery plan.

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Cloud backup made simple

Compress

The CloudBackup Station supports compressed backup files,

scheduled le deletion according to users’ specications and sparse le detection to avoid backing up unnecessary les. You can screen files by type, size, and date to ensure only the required files are saved on the cloud for greater storage and cost eciencies.

Select folder and encrypt

The CloudBackup Station features an SSL-secured connection and

military-grade AES 256-bit data encryption to protect your data in transmission and at rest on the cloud.

Multi-thread transmission

The CloudBackup Station supports multi-task processing and multi-

threaded data transfer*. The latter improves le transmission speed and enhances work eciency by segmenting large les into smaller ones before uploading. You can preview files in the cloud and download individual les instead of the entire folder.

WebDAV app does not support multi-threaded data transfer.

Cloud sync solutions

HybridCloud Sync supports four leading cloud storage services and synchronization with designated folders. The HybridCloud Sync supports Amazon® Cloud Drive, Google™ Drive, Dropbox™, and Microsoft® OneDrive® for continuous synchronization between your NAS and cloud storage.

Microsoft® OneDrive for Business

Microsoft® OneDrive synchronizes personal files to their free online storage space while its commercial counterpart provides online stora ge space for enterprise users and use of Oce Online.

Amazon® Cloud Drive Unlimited Photo Storage Plan

This service can save not only photos but also videos and other les.

Google™ Drive for Work

This service enables users to save all their work in a secured cloud environment to allow access from anywhere and at anytime, convenient sharing among colleagues with unlimited storage space.

Microsoft Office® for Dropbox™

This service enables editing of Oce les directly from Dropbox on the web.

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