• N+1 hybrid storage: 3.5” SATA HDDs and additional 2.5’’ SATA SSD for optimizing data processing without sacrificing the storage capacity.
• Flexible host interface with 10GB/40GB/Thunderbolt™ 3.0 options.
• Screw-less HDD/SSD tray design for easy installation and maintenance.
• Brand new enterprise level QSM 3.O with all new interface and features to empower SMB solutions.
• Unified storage architecture with full virtualization support.
P1 | Product Overview
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Customized Hardware Platform For Enterprise Applications
P1
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Feature Highlight
P2
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Innovative (N+1) Hybrid Storage Capacity
P3
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Leading Enterprise-level NAS Operating System
P4
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High Expandability & Scalability
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The Next Generation Thunderbolt™ 3 Solution
P5
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High speed 10Gb/40Gb High Speed Adapter Card
P8
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Efficient Management And Maintenance
P9
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Intuitive Interface
P9
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Account Setting And Management
P10
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Quality of Service (QOS)
P10
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Smart Monitor
P11
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System Notification
P11
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Define Your Own Business With Advanced Storage Technology
P12
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Centralized Data Storage & File Sharing
P15
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Cross Platform Access
P15
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Powerful Web File Explorer
P17
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File Manager
P17
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Universal and Efficient Data Backup
P20
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Backup Your Business
P20
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Client Backup
P21
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Remote Backup
P22
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Local Backup
P22
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Cloud Backup
P23
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Disaster Recovery
P23
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Security & Data Protection
P24
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Network Environment Protection
P25
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Data Security & Anti-Virus protection
P25
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Transmission Protection
P27
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Comprehensive Business Solution
P28
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Virtualization
P29
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Virtualization Ready Storage
P29
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Offload Data Transfer (ODX)
P30
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Full VMware Support
P30
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Access Your Data Anywhere
P32
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Reach XCubeNAS Via QSAN Cloud
P32
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Mobile On The Go
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Utility
P34
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Find NAS Tools
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Accessory
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Hardware Specifications
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Software Specifications
P38
| Product Overview
XCubeNAS Series Tower
Product Overview
The XCubeNAS series (XN3000T / XN5000T / XN7000T / XN8000T) is a simple, solid and stylish NAS
system which is designed for Workgroup and SMB applications. The XCubeNAS is powered by specifies
hardware N+1(3.5’’ LFF xN + 2.5’’ SFF x1) design, with additional onboard SATA SSD slot for blazing
performance and capacity expansion that can benefit every workgroup and SMB user.
The XCubeNAS operating system is the brand new, and totally reimagined QSM3.0 brings the enterprise
level features into the Work group and SMB storage. QSM3.0 supports comprehensive enterprise level
storage features including SSD caching, thin provisioning, auto-tiering, data deduplication and data
compression that transform the efficiency of every resource to bring you commercial value.
Customized Hardware Platform
For Enterprise Applications
The XCubeNAS is perfectly designed for Workgroups and SMB by the latest hardware specification.
Humanized mechanical design makes the installation and maintenance much easier than you can
imagine. Meanwhile, the customized hardware platform with QSAN enterprise level operation system
provides efficiently applications, enterprise level storage solutions, and extended network bandwidth
for comprehensive office environments. With additional PCIe slots on XCubeNAS, ultra-high-speed data
transmission, such as 10GbE, 40GbE and Thunderbolt 3, is also capable for multiple purposes.
The Latest Processor
XN3000T with high performance Intel Celeron processor; XN5000T/XN7000T/XN8000T with Intel latest
7th generation processor to provides abundant resources to meet computational requirements of a wide
variety of applications.
Up to 4 x 1 GbE Network Interface
XN3000T built-in two 1GbE Ethernet ports; XN5000T/XN7000T/XN8000T built-in four 1GbE Ethernet ports
which meet iSCSI/NFS/CIFS network data transmission requirements.
1
Feature
Highlight
Effortlessly Installation and Maintenance
Screw-less tray design for 2.5" SSD and 3.5" HDD anyone can install
the HDD and boost up performance without IT background.
Exclusive Service Door for Memory Upgrade.
XN3000T supports DDR3LSO-DIMM RAM that can be expanded
up to 8GB; XN5000T/XN7000T/XN8000T build in 8GB DDR4
SO-DIMM RAM that can be expanded up to 32GB.
| Feature Highlight
Flexible Expansion PCIe Slot
XN5000T/XN7000T/XN8000T have an additional PCIe expansion slots give the XCubeNAS the flexibly to
respond to various application demands. Thunderbolt™ 3 and 10GbE/40GbE network adapter cards are
supported to greatly enhance the data transmission speeds. Moreover, Thunderbolt 3 adapter cards are
also able to enlarge the storage capacity to 246TB.
Thunderbolt 3.0
10G/40G NIC
2
| Hybrid Storage Capacity
Innovative
(N+1)
Hybrid Storage Capacity
The innovative mechanical design makes the XCubeNAS a versatile hybrid storage device. Without
affecting existing large form factor slots, the XCubeNAS positions small form factor bays for SATA SSD at
the left side of the system, this way we can ensure that both the demands for capacity and performance
can be satisfied.
Large form factor slots drive trays feature not only 3.5 inch drive support but also 2.5 inch mounting holes
are included as standard on all bays on the XCubeNAS. Fitted with up to 10TB drives in the 3.5 inch HDD
bays, the XCubeNAS can fulfill capacity demands, and exceed them after adding our XCubeDAS systems.
1 : Small Form Factor
Additional 2.5 inch small form factor are provided in order to enable advanced features without sacrificing
storage capacity. In addition to being used for SSD caching for boosting data access performance, our
auto-tiering architecture can be utilized to offer a complete ongoing optimization.
QSM 3.0 (QSAN Storage Manager 3.0) is an innovative storage operating system designed for QSAN
XCubeNAS products. Based on Linux and 128-bit ZFS (Zeta-byte File System), QSM 3.0 not only inherits
the amazing native features of ZFS but is also adjusted with several bespoke optimization enhancements
that make the XCubeNAS series a high-performance, efficient and superior network attached storage
device.
QSM 3.0 guarantees data integrity, and security. The built in checksum mechanism can automatically
correct corrupted data using file snapshots. A wide range of supported RAID types, file and block level
snapshots and various backup solution support ensures that data always well-protected. AES-256 pool
encryption, WORM and SED drive support prevent confidential data from being either stolen or modified.
QSM 3.0 utilizes every resource to achieve data efficiency. Data deduplication and compression
technology reduce storing duplicate data blocks and files to maximize storage capacity, making the
XCubeNAS capable of storing beyond its raw storage capacity.
QSM 3.0 effectively addresses the performance demands of various applications. The SSD caching boosts
up data access speed. And classifying data by access frequency lets auto-tiering help you fetch frequently
used files even faster.
Value-added functionalitys such as virtualization capability, multiple server center, centralized file station
etc. are also provided making QSM 3.0 robust and able to carry out dedicated applications.
Multi NAS Sync
Snapshot Replica
PC / Server Backup Utility
Real Time Remote Backup
Web File Manager
Dropbox
Google Drive
One Drive Sync
Mobile App
Internet Connection Tool
AD/LDAP Domain
User/ Folder Quota
Windows ACL
Advanced ACL
SMB
Cloud Service
File Sharing
Server
iSCSI
Virtual Disk
Backup Service
SED
WORM
Compression
Deduplication
Virtual Hypervisor Server
NAS
Snapshot
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Pool & Folder
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ZFS
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Linux
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Encryption
y
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SQL Server
Web Server
Scale-up
S
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Instant RAID
SSD Trim
SSD Cache
VPN Server
Media Editing
Storage
Microsoft Exchange
Storage
Thin Provision
Virtualization Storage
(Hyper-V, Citrix, VMware)
Auto Tiering
Surveillance
Storage
4
High Expandability
& Scalability
Empowered by the advantages of PCIe expansion slots, the XCubeNAS could instantly and
effectively respond to application demands. Using Thunderbolt™ adapter card to connect to
remote virtual volume of another XCubeNAS can easily scale storage capacity up. Network
speed can be greatly enhanced by using Thunderbolt™, 10G and 40G network adapter cards.
The Next Generation
Thunderbolt™ 3 Solution
QSAN is proud to be providing the latest Thunderbolt™ 3 adapter card as an option for our XCubeNAS
series NAS. You can create lightning throughput and reliable connectivity between XCubeNAS storage
systems and a work station, MacBook or iMac directly with the QSAN Thunderbolt™ 3 solution.
In addition to the lightning throughput, the Thunderbolt™ 3 ports can be directly attached to the QSAN
XCubeNAS series NAS products for expending client’s data storage capacity or can hook up as an external
device for fast data backup to the XCubeNAS. Thunderbolt™ 3 not only delivers an amazing 40 Gbps data
transmission rate but also provides more than a 100% increase in bandwidth than the 2nd generation.
Theoretically the Thunderbolt™ 3 solution is up to eight times faster than USB 3.0. So a XCubeNAS with a
Thunderbolt™ 3 adapter is an ideal solution for throughput demanding applications such as video editing
and production, music production, digital photography editing, high speed external device data backup to
NAS and more.
4K / 2K Video Editing
Data Backup
Direct Attach Storage
Capacity Expansion
XCubeN AS Thunderbolt™ 3 Applications
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| Thunderbolt™ 3 Solution
High-Performance: Breaking The I/O Throughput
With next generation Thunderbolt™ 3 technology,
you can connect a Thunderbolt™ 3 device to an
XCubeNAS directly with a 40Gb/s data transmission
40Gb/s
20Gb/s
Thunderbolt 3
Thunderbolt 2
rate.
10Gb/s
USB 3.1
XCubeNAS with Thunderbolt™ 3 is capable of
transferring high-resolution video smoothly and
5Gb/s
USB 3
handling relative workloads with ease. Copy a 4.7GB
DVD video will on average take under a minute.
Type CD 700MB DVD 4.7GB Blue-ray 25GB
Thunderbolt™ 3 (40Gb/s) 0.14 0.95 5
Thunderbolt 2 (20Gb/s) 0.28 1.88 10
Thunderbolt (10Gb/s) 0.56 3.76 20
USB 3.1 (10 Gb/s) 0.56 3.76 20
USB 3.0 (5 Gb/s) 1.12 7.52 40
FireWire 800 (800Mb/s) 7 47 250
USB 2.0 (480Mb/s) 11.66 78.33 416.66
High-efficient: 4K Video Editing
The XCubeNAS fulfils storage and video editing needs with high-speed Thunderbolt™3 . Digital videos can
be quickly stored and edited on the XCubeNAS via a stable transmission tunnel without dropping a single
frame. So you can are able to achieve blazingly fast transfer speeds to your workstation at up to 40 Gb/s
speed with a single cable connection. That’s more than enough bandwidth to handle the highest resolution
video formats including Ultra HD and 4K, or even the highly demanding stereoscopic 3D files.
Ingest the Videos
Thunderbolt™ 3 Connection
Video Editing Station
· Large Capacity
· High Throughput
Work Group
Video Sharing
6
High Capacity: Scale-Up Solution
The XCubeNAS provides a massive scale-up capability
by connecting other XCubeNAS with the thunderbolt
technology. It can support up to whopping 27 disk drives
or up to 246 TB of raw storage space by using 10TB
HDD drives.
Maximum Raw Storage Capacity
| Thunderbolt™ 3 Solution
NAS Models
XN8008T
XN7008T
XN5008T
XN8006T
XN7006T
XN5006T
XN8004T
XN7004T
XN5004T
Enclosure
Front Factor
Tower 8 +1bay
( LFF 8 + SFF 1 )
Tower 6+1 bay
( LFF 6 + SFF 1 )
Tower 4+1 bay
( LFF 4 + SFF 1 )
Max. No. of
Expansion Units
29+9*2=27198 TB246 TB
27+7*2=21150TB186TB
25+5*2=15102TB126TB
Highly Expandability:
Enlarge Your MAC’s Capacity
With storage in modern computers at a
premium, running out of storage seems like
an every day issue. With the XCubeNAS when
you are out of storage space, simply connect
XCubeNAS it to your MAC via the Thunderbolt
port. It can will then provide extra space in a
secure and high performance environment.
Moreover, Choosing stable Thunderbolt
interface to share your MAC’s data to another
workstation by separating the XCubeNAS
from your MAC and attach to the workstation.
Using the Thunderbolt connectivity also
allows flexibility. To share work between
desktops, simply disconnect the cable from
your machine, and attach it to another.
Max. No. of
Hard Drives
Max. Raw Capacity
LFF 8TB
SFF 2TB (SATA)
LFF 10TB
SFF 2TB (SATA)
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| High Speed Adapter Card
High speed 10GbE/40GbE
High Speed Adapter Card
A 10GbE/40GbE (10 Gigabit/ 40 Gigabit Ethernet) network is essential for businesses that demand
high bandwidth for virtualization, and fast backup and restore for an ever-growing amount of data. The
XCubeNAS Tower series is an affordable and reliable storage solution for deploying a 10GbE / 40GbE
environment.
Unleash The Full Potential Of Virtualization
Application and processing requirements constantly evolve, heightening the need for higher performance
storage, and with virtualization of IT resources, the need for high performance storage is essential.
The XCubeNAS offers class leading hardware matched with unparalleled 10Gbps/40Gbps speed for
all virtualization needs. The 10Gbps/40Gbps speed will increase the agility of data transmission in a
virtualized environment, therefore intensifying NFS and iSCSI connection performance.
VMVMVM
HypervisorHypervisor
Gigabit
Network
VMVMVMVMVM
10/40 Gb
Network
High-Performance I/O Throughput
10/40 GbE high-speed networks are highly beneficial for IOPS-demanding applications such as
virtualization, databases, high-resolution video editing, and sharing workflows.
4000
3000
2000
1000
0 (MB/s)
Throughput
3920
Read
10 Gigabit LAN port x4
3831
Write
260000
195000
130000
65000
0 (MB/s)
IOPS
268,152
Read
10 Gigabit LAN port x4
250,208
Write
8
Efficient Management
& Maintenance
With the powerful QSM 3.0 file system and intuitive interface, IT administrator are able to
efficiently manage account, storage, network bandwidth and monitor the activities occurring
on the XCubeNAS, and react on a moment’s notice if something goes wrong.
Intuitive
Interface
It’s important for users to easily operate and manage the XCubeNAS. With the simple, clear and intuitive
interface such as graphic icons and tablet / phone-like interface, making the XCubeNAS easier and more
pleasant for everyone to use without any professional knowledges.
Furthermore, QSM exclusive design Dock is the bar of icons that sits at the bottom, you can pin your
access most App on Dock. It provides easy way to access your QSM.
9
| Account Setting
Account Setting
& Management
Users are allowed to create multiple user accounts and share folders, and authorized by those shared
folders with the support of privilege settings. There are features that IT administrators can set the access
control on the XCubeNAS.
Privilege Setting
The XCubeNAS has the ability on setting user’s windows permission of the specific share folder and its
subfolder, or limit user to access specific services. Ensure the data security on the XCubeNAS and prevent
the invasion of privacy among every user.
User And Folder Quota
By adding quotas (limits) to users, the XCubeNAS can decide the storage space on the individual user
folder and limit the storage capacity in each volume. With this feature, the admin will has the ability of
complete control on the NAS storage allocation.
Quality of
Service (QOS)
Streaming media or editing files online may lower the input/output speed. To prevent being cut into the
bandwidth, the XCubeNAS provides services that allows users to take control of the bandwidth. Service
binding is a technique for binding a particular service (like SMB/CIFS or FTP or etc.) to a specific port,
each service can use specific port. This effect dedicates the full bandwidth of the LAN port to that specific
service.
10
Smart
Monitor
| Smart Monitor
Monitor Center
The XCubeNAS has its system monitor center for
users to efficiently monitor the resource status(
like CPU, RAM , memory, pool status...), hardware
information, network service (like WebDAV, Rsync,
NFS, FTP...), and view all the system logs.
Dashboard
Graphically presenting system health, hardware/
network information, system logs and
notifications on desktop, the XCubeNAS provides
dashboard that can inform the IT administrator of
the latest system information in real-time.
System
Notification
The IT administrator must always have the most comprehensive and up-to-date information about their
XCubeNAS. The XCubeNAS supports Buzzer alert email and SNMP service that can ensure them to
respond to incidents immediately and more efficiently.
Buzzer Alert
The XCubeNAS will make buzzer alert to notify the user when detecting the abnormal situation on the
system. Allowing users to figure out that something problems happened on their NAS at the shortest time.
Notification Via Email
When encountering some system problems, the administrator can get the notification at the same time via
email with the support of email alert services such as Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook and other custom settings.
SNMP Service
XCubeNAS supports SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) service that allows network
administrators to use any SNMP-based NMS (Network Management System) to monitor the status of
the connected XCubeNAS with network management software. With SNMP trap capability provided,
XCubeNAS can send notification to NMS actively when the pre-defined levels of events occur.
11
Define Your Own Business
With Advanced Storage Technology
XCubeNAS tailor-made storage pool technology effectively caters to diverse storage demands
on data integrity, scalability, high performance and availability. Comprehensive RAID levels
are supported to ensure data integrity under every application scenario. Pool capacity could
be expanded on the fly, rapidly responding to growing needs of for capacity. The design of
the XCubeNAS allows for creating customized storage pools and auto categorization of data
based on usage. “Hot” data will be moved to front line storage while “cold” data is stored on
slower disks. All this is done automatically with the XCubeNAS.
x 18
Global Spare
SSD Cache
DeduplicationSSD CacheThin ProvisioningSnapshot
VolumeiSCSI LUN
Smart Tiering Pool
Instant RAID
Data Archive Tiering
Instant RAID
Frequent File Access
Instant RAID
Data Base Tubor Tiering
12
| Define Your Own Business
User Defined Pool
Thinking ahead to common usage situations, the XCubeNAS provides three optimized solutions for pools
to achieve high performance and availability for dedicated storage
• Generic: Default type for generic file service or backup usage.
• Media: Optimize IOPS for small packets of sequential RW and throughput for large, random packets.
• Database: Data is synchronized between the memory cache and disks in real time for assurance of
database Integrity.
GenericMediaDatabase
Auto Tiering
Increase the performance of your business related
applications by using auto-tiering; without crippling your
budget. The XCubeNAS features auto-tiering technology
that continuously analyzes how often data has been
accessed. Frequently-used data would will then be
automatically moved to drives with higher access
speeds, while rarely-used data would be is moved to
large capacity, slower drives. Demanding workloads
of your business applications could can be dramatically
reduced and the performance increased without heavy
investment in expensive All Flash storage devices - this
is all done by the XCubeNAS’s intelligent auto-tiering
technology.
Performance
Tier 1
Tier 3
Capacity
SATA SDD
SATA HDD
Thin Provision
“Take whatever you need.” That’s the
philosophy of thin provisioning. Thin
provisioning lets various services and
applications use the same storage
space without limiting how much of
the quota can be used by each. With
thin provisioning, space resources are
dynamically distributed to the most
demanding, responding to your business
applications with higher flexibility and
promising potentials.
Volume 1Volume 2Volume 1
Without Thin ProvisioningWith Thin Provisioning
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| Define Your Own Business
Data Deduplication
The data deduplication feature of the XCubeNAS is an in-line, block-level function that checks the block
similarity of data as it enters the system When duplicate blocks are found, they are not written to disk,
therefore saving space.
Data Compression
With compression, data will be compressed into
fewer bytes on transmission to ensure the faster
transfer speed and save storage space.
SSD Cache
SSD cache is a large secondary cache that boosts data access speed by positioning SSD drives between
primary DRAM memory cache and hard disks.
SATA SSD x 1
x18
SSD CacheWO / QSOE
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Centralized Data Storage
& File Sharing
A centralized data storage system, the XCubeNAS eliminates either physical gaps or virtual
boundaries to provide a secure flattened platform that enables your data to be easily accessed
from anywhere at anytime via the internet, with maximum security.
The XCubeNAS provides lightning fast and secure ways to share files with anyone, anywhere.
You can explore, organize, and move files between your computer and the XCubeNAS, all
the while, being able to customize access rights to enhance security. A seamless integrated
system allows for file sharing across different computing environments, including Windows,
Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
Cross Platform
Access
The XCubeNAS provides seamless file sharing across Windows®, Mac®, Linux®, iOS and Android platforms
by supporting multiple file access protocols including FTP, SAMBA, CIFS, AFP, NFS and WebDAV.
15
| Cross Platform Access
Quota Control On Accounts And Share Folders
Take control of your storage space, by adding quotas (limits) to the amount of data a user can store. Users
can be limited on how much data a folder can store or the quota can apply to the entire system, thus
empowering the admin with complete control of what is stored on the XCubeNAS.
500G
IT Administrator
50G
Sales
40G
Marketing
Windows AD and LDAP Directory Services Support
By supporting Windows AD and LDAP, the XCubeNAS
enables seamless account integration. Up to 200,000
domain accounts can be joined onto the XCubeNAS
and their Home folder is automatically created,
helping IT administrators reduce duplicated sets of
credentials and minimizing their workload in giving
default account settings and new user setup.
10G
Design
20,000+
20,000+
80M
R&D
AD
LDAP
100G
QA
10G
Report
Windows ACLs And Advanced ACLs
Access Control List (ACL) is a permission list specifying what actions specific accounts take on folders
and files. Advanced ACL lets you set permissions on subfolders, whereas Windows ACL enables you to
apply Windows file permission mechanisms on files and folders. With both kinds of ACL supported, IT
administrators can flexibly regulate file access rules no matter what operating system they use, protecting
your data from unauthorized access or theft.
1
Read / Write
2
Read
3
Deny
13
2
16
| Powerful Web File Explore
Powerful
Web File Explorer
Connect / share files via the web from anywhere in the world. The XCubeNAS has a web-based File
Manager that allows users to access their data and easily share it with anyone. They can also set links to
be valid in a specified time period or forever.
File
Manager
The XCubeNAS provides comprehensive cross-platform file storage and sharing on File Manager. The
web-based management interface allows you to remotely manage, store and share files via web browser
from anywhere.
Intuitive Interface
In file manager, everyone can easily rename, delete, copy and share every files with a simple click.
Moreover, you are allowed to upload, download and manage all the file with drag-and-drop on the user
interface just like the operation on PC, it makes the management on the XCubeNAS much easier, saving
more time to increase productivity.
17
| File Manager
Online Photo And Office File Preview
It is possible to preview Microsoft
Office files in the browser with File
Manager. The XCubeNAS supports file
types such like: .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx,
.ppt, and .pptx, and it also supports
your photo preview. With speeds of up
to 40GbE using any Mac or PC with a
Thunderbolt™ port, fast read and write
speed on data editing can be ensured
without any data loss.
Multiple Ways On File Sharing
To improve file sharing and teamwork efficiency, the QSM File Manager allows users to access and share
files on both internal and external networks. By sending a simple link across the internet via email, or
attaching them to Facebook, Twitter can make it easier to share files with your colleagues and customers.
You can even set an expiration time for those shared files.
Multimedia Management
With File Manager, the XCubeNAS is the perfect media server for everyone to easily manage the
multimedia, it will arrange your media file automatically you show photos, stream music on the media
player and transcode the video to play on different devices.
Team Folder Sharing
With the “User Home Folder” feature, a personal folder will be created automatically when a user logs in to
the XCubeNAS for the first time. It effectively saves time for individual users, enabling them to get set-up
quicker and thus share files with each other as soon as possible
Grace
.
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| File Manager
Connect To Your Cloud
The file manager can also be used as a cloud client to browse and download remote data on third party
cloud services such as Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive.
File Tag
With File Manager Tag function, you can organize
files by project or purpose, without having to
move them into a specific folder. Your tags
automatically show in the File Manager menu
bar, so it’s easy to manage tagged files no matter
where they’re located.
Media Library
File Manager can serve as your centralized photo
station, allowing you to create albums to manage
all the photo by categories and display them with
your friends and clients. Free yourself from the
limits of traditional photo storage services. Music
in shared folders can be displayed succinctly
on Media Library. The system will index all the
multimedia files in database and manage them
by categories automatically so that you can
search and organize huge amount of multimedia
files more quickly without too many efforts.
Mount Server
Being able to share files across computers and
multiple platforms is vital, so file manager allows
users to mount CD/DVD ISO files, folders, remote
server’s on the XCubeNAS with support for CIFS/
SMB, FTP, SFTP and WebDAV protocols to quickly
transfer and share files on different operating
systems without constraints.
Document
Video
Home
Photo
Music
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Universal & Efficient
Data Backup
Modern businesses' data faces many potential threats such as unexpected hardware failure,
natural disasters, or unintended deletion, which might cause loss of your critical digital
assets. The mainstream adoption of cloud, remote and external storage devices for storing
documents makes data fragmented.
The explosion in data volume sizes and their demands for efficient data retention methods
mean that the XCubeSAN is the perfect solution to fit modern data requirements.
Backup
Your Business
The XCubeNAS effectively addresses the above challenges by providing comprehensive and effective
backup solutions that assist you design a complete and efficient backup solution to minimize the risk of
data loss. Various storage devices, remote servers, public clouds even other XCubeNAS can be seamlessly
integrated into your XCubeNAS, achieving an all-encompassing backup solution allowing data to be freely,
safely and efficiently preserved.
• Client backup
• Remote backup
• Cloud backup
• Local backup
• Disaster recovery
Cloud Backup
Internet
Local Backup
Client Side Backup
Real-time Remote Replicat
Remote Backup
20
| Client Backup
Client
Backup
Client Backup to Your XCubeNAS - XReplicator
The most common cause of data loss is HDD failure, OS crashes or most commonly, accidental deletion.
Comprehensive data backup is the solution to all your data loss woes. Backup all your data on your
computer to your XCubeNAS with QSAN’s free untility, XReplicator.
XReplicator is a free utility that’s is provided to help you easily backup an image of a disk,partition, folder
or file. XReplicator is also able to backup an entire PC to the XCubeNAS as a bare metal backup. There is a
way to quickly and simply recover your entire system, disk or file when using the XReplicator utility and the
XCubeNAS solution.
• Supported Windows XP or higher & Win Server 2008 or higher.
• Expert backup solution.
• Backup image only stored on XCubeNAS.
• Opened file backup support.
• Scheduling backup support (Monthly, weekly, daily, automatically).
• Backup configuration for fast upload speeds (Single version, incremental and differential).
• Personal key encryption.
• Version control and clean up.
• Backup filter.
XReplicator
3rd Party Backup Software
With supports of multiple backup softwares like CA Brightstor ARCserve Backup, EMC Retrospect,
Symantec Backup Exec and LaCie Silverkeeper that delivers reliable data backup and recovery for business
with different operating systems (Windows
quickly in the event of a disaster with Intelligent Disaster Recovery, and deduplication assists in minimizing
the size of backups.
Time Machine
It’s very easy and to use Apple Time Machine with QSM unified storage.The XCubeNAS supports Time
Machine for Mac OS X 10.5 or later for concurrent backup of Mac. By enabling this feature on the
XCubeNAS, the up-to-date copies of the photos, music, videos, documents, settings and applications on
your Mac can be backed up automatically to the NAS. You can also recover the data from the NAS to your
Mac anytime.
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, Linux®, Mac®, NetWare®). The entire servers can be restored
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Remote
Backup
| Remote Backup
Real-time Remote Replication
Data copies can be distributed to your
trusted storage locations through real-time
remote backup. By periodically copying
data to different branches, your data can
be recovered in the unfortunate event that
a disaster happens. Data availability is
ensured, offering businesses more options
for a contingency and recovery plan.
XMirror
XMirror regularly synchronizes a volume or the contents of a folder between multiple XCubeNAS devices,
any modification to documents will be replicated to other XCubeNAS. By using XMirror, data on different
XCubeNAS systems, data consistency and availability is ensured ability.
· Support Volume and Folder mirror.
· 1-way (unidirectional): data modification of the local NAS will be synchronized to the remote, but any data
modification of remote NAS will not be reflected.
· 2-way (bi-directional): any data modification of a NAS will be synchronized to the others.
· Version control (64 versions).
iSCSI LUNs Shared Folders
Remote Replication
Local Enterprise StorageRemote Enterprise Storage
Replicated
iSCSI LUNs
Replicated
Shared Folders
Local
Backup
USB One Touch Backup
Connect an external USB storage device to your
XCubeNAS, you can backup all the files to either the
NAS or the USB device. This 2-way data transfer enables
quick and easy-to-use copy methods for every user to
protect their data.
· Version control and clean up.
· Backup filter.
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| Cloud Backup
Cloud
Backup
Amazon® S3 Backup
The XCubeNAS comes integrated with Amazon’s award-winning enterprise cloud service, Amazon
enables users to backup the whole array to a remote site instead of another NAS or devices.
Hybrid Cloud Solution
Using Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox, you can
build a hybrid cloud which allows you to access and
backup the files on mobile devices, PCs, or thin clients
anytime and anywhere. The XCubeNAS can be a
cloud gateway to bridge your public cloud and private
content and act as a central access point.
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S3
Disaster
Recovery
Snapshot Replica
Snapshots record the status of shared folders and iSCSI LUNs as changes happen on write. By periodically
taking snapshots, administrators can better control data versions and execute point-in-time recovery on
folders and LUNs, these can be flexibly restored to previously known good states. Replica can transport
the version information to the target XCubeNAS, enabling administrators to utilize storage space based on
their retention policies and space requirements.
Timeline
T0
Fast Rebuild
When a drive fails in a RAID set, the
XCubeNAS is capable of rebuilding the data
blocks that have been used, and not the entire
RAID set. This helps reduce the risk of data
loss during the rebuilding process.
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Unfortunate hardware failure is something no one
wants, however with the XCubeNAS, recovery is
simple. With disk roaming technology, your data
and system configuration can be easily migrated to
another XCubeNAS without having to worry about
disk order or a lengthy reconfiguration.
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Security &
Data Protection
The growing tide of data breaches, leaks, and malicious software means your data security
systems and procedures are vital. Our QSM for XCubeNAS was built on a security-first
ideology, it can offer you full protection of the data within your XCubeNAS. Tools are provided
to prevent protect the system from hacking, and interception of data, theft, and accidental
deletion.
Furthermore, using the inbuilt Anti-Virus, you can add tasks, scanning the entire NAS or
selected folder with specific schedule.
Comprehensive
Security Solution
Developing a comprehensive enterprise security strategy can facilitate greater control over your threat
management activities and help improve the protection of your critical data assets. QSAN helps you to
minimize the risk of data breaches with comprehensive protection solutions on both your data and the
entire system.
QSAN supports AES 256-bit encryption that gives you the highest level of security and privacy for your
important data. All data stored in encrypted folders will be automatically encrypted and secured to the
highest of standards. The Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) and WORM provides full data protection even under
worst case scenarios like, losing your NAS or hard disks to theft, your important data is still protected and
wont fall into the wrong hands.
With the rise in the threat to digital assets, QSM provides unified authentication for user management
combined with private SSH, the one time password authentication mechanism forces two part
authentication and protects the system from intrusion.
Also enables you to install and run endpoint protection, eliminating the cost and complexity of connecting
an external endpoint protection server. Features including service binding, IP-blocking, firewall, internal
SSL and antivirus, providing all users with a highly available solution that keeps their data fully accessible.
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Network Environment
Protection
IP Connection Filtering
Network ban list denies onnections from specific IP
addresses or subnets to your NAS. You can block an IP
for a certain period of time or forever if the IP fails to
login from a particular connection method. This feature
helps administrator block suspicious connections in
order to enhance system security.
| Network Environment Protection
IP
IP
Service Binding
Service binding enhances system security by letting
administrators determine which services can be
connected through which network interfaces.
The security of sensitive applications as well as
bandwidths of critical services are firmly protected.
Data Security
& Anti-Virus Protection
Pool Encryption with AES-256
XCubeNAS pool encryption mechanism ensures secured
storage environment any user who wants to modify data
must first pass authentication. The XCubeNAS supports up to
AES 256-bit encryption for internal drives and external USB/
eSATA drives, and adopts a military level FIPS 140-2 validated
encryption, which is considered to be the highest security
certification for compliance.
FTPRsync
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| Data Security & Anti-Virus Protection
Hard Drive Encryption Across System
XCubeNAS can be much safer more than you can image with the disk self-encrypting technology called
SED (Self-Encrypting Drive). With the technology, even if the physical drive is stolen or misplaced, the
data on it remains protected against data breach by generating the authentication key (AK) to prevent the
unauthorized access. However, the SED offered by QSAN provides the secured pools migration between
different XCubeNASs and easy to manage the key by exporting AK for more efficient.
SED Encryption Pool
SED 1SED 2SED 3
Complete Folder Encryption – WORM (Write Once Read Many)
WORM technology is design to prevent intentional or accidental modification of data in a certain period.
Files and folders under WORM’s protection can only be read in a user defined period, it’s unable to modify
any files or folders until the period has expired. WORM it can protect your data from encryption-based
ransomware that installs covertly on a victim’s system and encrypt their files, making them inaccessible.
WORM will protect your confidential data from unauthorized modification and threat, ensuring the
correctness and integrity of your data.
Traditional
Read & Write
Read & Write
Read & Write
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Antivirus Protection
The built-in antivirus function periodically scans files that it will automatically
put suspicious files to quarantine to prevent system from potential threats.
Anti
Virus
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| Transmission Protection
Transmission
Protection
Unified Authentication
Unified authentication can verify the claimed identity of users and components. Utilising the use of
passwords and the exchange of digital keys on the NAS system, once users have entered their username
and credentials such as a password or private SSH key to login, they are then allowed to use all the
services on the NAS without further authentication.
Traffic Encryption - Internet SSL
SSL certificates deliver secured tunnels for data transmission
ensuring that critical data and information cannot be intercepted or
modified during the transfer process.
SSL
Firewall
Firewall guarantees system security by blocking suspicious connections, either malicious attacks or
unwanted intrusion.
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All-in-One
Business Solution
Since having a dedicated machine for each specific task rapidly becomes an expensive and
inefficient solution, XCubeNAS allows you to enable comprehensive applications and services
on your NAS, whenever you need them. Everything from file sharing to data storage, even
hosting a website, the XCubeNAS can do it all.
Web ServerSQL Server
VPN Server
SQL Server
Instead of outsourcing your web hosting to another company, the XCubeNAS built-in SQL service allows
the user to build their own website. Building a website for personal use or for the business purpose is
easier than you can have imagined.
VPN Server
With VPN service, you can access and share your NAS files with your families and friends via the secured
private network, access websites without the Internet blocking mechanism in certain areas.
Web Server
QSAN supports web server service together with PHP support, allowing users to enter their NAS or the
personal web page with provided links. With the virtual host service on web server, users can host multiple
websites on the same XCubeNAS.
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Virtualization
XCubeNAS is an ideal and economical storage solution that can be used as a shared network
storage or IP-SAN storage for virtualization environments. Officially certified with VMware
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Ready™, Citrix® Ready™, and Microsoft® Hyper-V™, the XCubeNAS it is a stable and efficient
data storage system. Virtualized data centers can perform faster and more efficiently with
XCubeNAS’s assistance on provisioning, migration and management of virtual machines.
The XCubeNAS provides virtualization solutions allowing you to maximize resource utilization
to flexibly deliver application services. The built in hypervisor manager provides a simple and
quick way to deploy virtual resources into your infrastructure. This ability means that you can
save on listening costs, by moving virtual resources onto the XcubeNAS and free up valuable
resouces on your hypervisor.
Virtualization
Ready Storage
XCubeNAS is verified with VMware® Ready™, Citrix® Ready™, and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ certified. No matter
which virtualization environment you’ve adopted, the XCubeNAS is a practical and efficient storage system
for you to deploy in any virtualization platform. XCubeNAS can be used for primary storage repositories
and as a backup to existing primary storage. As a backup storage device, the XCubeNAS supports a
comprehensive list of 3rd-party virtual machine backup software to ensures that your VMs and data are
never at risk of loss.
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Offload
Data Transfer (ODX)
With ODX support, users using Windows Server 2012 R2 are
able to conduct data operations, such as moving large files
and virtual machines, directly between iSCSI LUNs. Handled
by XCubeNAS, the progress need not be interfered with hosted
servers thus can be rapidly finished. So can Windows servers
perform faster and handle more tasks since being benefit from
reduced resource consumption.
| Offload Data Transfer
Windows Host
Copy Command
Copy
Virtual Disk 1Virtual Disk 2
Full VMware
Support
As a qualified VMware® TAP Elite partner, QSAN put innovative technologies into the XCubeNAS aiming to
facilitate VMware®’s feature-rich virtualization environments. By supporting VMware
XCubeNAS integrates with vSphere hosts solutions such as disaster recovery, offload capabilities and
storage.
• VMware 6.5 Certified
• Site Recovery Manager (SRM) certified
• vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) certified
• Support SPC-3
• Support MPIO, MC/S
VMware
The XCubeNAS supports VAAI (iSCSI and NFS) which
enables VMware
storage operations onto the XCubeNAS. Commands
such as data copy are delegated to the XCubeNAS
without passing through the host every time, thus
greatly reducing CPU, memory and bandwidth
expenditure. The conserved resources can be
further distributed to virtual machines, dramatically
enhancing their performance.
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• VAAI Block (iSCSI) supports Full Copy, Block Zeroing,
Hardware-assisted Locking and Thin Provisioning
with Space Reclamation
• VAAI NAS (NFS) supports Full File Clone, Extended
Statistics and Reserve Space
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| Full VMware Support
Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a disaster recovery mechanism designed to guarantee virtual machine
configurations can be properly recovered whenever accidents happen. Dedicated data centers and storage
arrays are assigned to store states of virtual machines and data. If the original data center fails, critical
services on virtual machines can still be recovered to their original condition. The XCubeNAS ensures the
recovery progress can be correctly and rapidly executed.
VMware
vCenter Server
Site Recovery
Manager
VMVMVMVMVM
VMware vSphere
Professional Virtual Machine
Backup Software
Professional virtual machine backup
software such as symantec, Veeam
and official VMware Data Recovery
(VDR) can all be used with the
XCubeNAS for storing and managing
virtual machine images.
VMVM
vSphere Replication
VMVM
Storage Replication
10Gb Network
VMware
vCenter Server
Site Recovery
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VMware vSphere
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VMware ESX
Backup
Restore
Manager
Hypervisor Manager
The built-in Hypervisor Manager is an easy-to-use application enabling you to create and manage virtual
machines that run directly on the XCubeNAS. Being capable of hosting multiple virtualized environments
ensures various customized services and applications being presented at the same time without additional
hardware investment. In addition, those virtual machines are isolated reducing the risk of potential data
leaks or operation interference. These features make the XCubeNAS an ideal multi-tenant environment for
deploying business applications.
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Access Your Data
Anywhere
XCubeNAS provides free DDNS services so you can pick your own hostname and easily
connect from anywhere. This is rather useful when the your broadband has a floating IP
address that changes frequently. Furthermore you can use your DDNS domain name to access
your XCubeNAS via the Xccess Mobile app for Android and iOS.
Reach XCubeNAS
Via QSAN Cloud
XCubeNAS supports DDNS and UPnP port forwarding. You can access your XCubeNAS from everywhere
with Internet connection by registering a QSAN customized domain name or a signed in a 3rd party DDNS
domain.
qsan.qsancloud.net
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Mobile
On The Go
Liberate your work from the confines of the office. No matter where you are, open Xccess and
you can start your work immediately. Files can even be directly uploaded to your XCubeNAS
from the public cloud. With Xccess, any changes made to a file is automatically synced
between your mobile devices.
Access Your XCubeNAS Via Xccess
You can use your QSAN Cloud hostname to access NAS without any setting. It’s very easy to start your
work and entertainment anywhere.
Auto Upload
Automatically upload photos to your XCubeNAS whenever you take new photos. It works as a real-time
backup of your precious photos.
Organize Your Multimedia Contents
Xccess will index all the multimedia files such as photos, music and videos in a database then, manage
them by categories automatically so that you can search and organize huge amount of multimedia files
more quickly without too many efforts.
Play Multimedia On Demand
Xccess features real-time streaming, its easy to connect to the XCubeNAS and play your music,
photos and video collection with simple operations. Immediately turning your Xccess app into your media
player anytime and anywhere.
Home Entertainment
Xccess supports Airplay and Chromecast. It allows you to easily stream the movies or other videos stored
on the XCubeNAS to your TV, while using your mobile devices as a remote control to manage playback.
Before going out or traveling, you can also pre-download videos and watch them under offline mode.
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Utility
Find
NAS Tools
Local Access – XFinder
XFinder is a desktop utility that searches for QSAN XCubeNAS devices in the local area network. It helps
you to set up and install QSM on your XCubeNAS, connect to network or setup Wake on LAN (WOL),
Notification (SNMP) or view monitored resources (Network, CPU, RAM...) of your XCubeNAS.
Internet Access - Web Finder
Web Finder is a browser based utility that
searches for QSAN XCubeNAS devices in
the local LAN, you don’t need install any
software, just open the browser then you
can find your NAS. It also helps you to set
up and install QSM on your XCubeNAS.
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