Storage for Virtualization
Flexibly deploy and manage virtualization environments
Virtualization increases IT management efficiency and the availability of IT applications and resources. QNAP NAS provides a reliable, high-performance, and affordable storage solution for virtualization platforms such as VMware® vSphere™, Microsoft® Hyper-V®, Citrix® XenServer™, and Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes®.
Virtualization storage that meets your requirements
With the explosion of virtualized environments within recent years, a growing challenge for administrators has been to accommodate the storage requirements for a sprawling number of virtual machines. As enterprise QNAP NAS are designed for virtualized and clustered environments, they provide cost-effective and high-performance virtualization storage solutions for meeting all your requirements.
Build a SAN virtualization environment
QNAP integrates SAN, NAS and cloud storage applications, providing higher cost-efficiency and flexibility. In addition, QNAP NAS supports iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel protocols, providing large and scalable virtual storage space for your virtualization applications.
Learn More: QNAP NAS supports Fibre Channel SAN
RAID configurations for data protection
QNAP NAS supports RAID configurations to provide different data protection levels for your environment to build the best data protection for your virtualization environment
Learn More: RAID Management
Virtualization applications supported by QNAP NAS
QNAP NAS supports a wide range of mainstream virtualization applications to help IT staff increase the efficiency of virtualized environments.
VMware vSphere
VMware® vSphere™ can effectively reduce IT costs and increase responsiveness in your virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure. QNAP VMware® Ready™ products are all officially certified and are compatible with VMware® vSphere™ platform. SMB IT staff can use a QNAP VMware® Ready™ NAS as an affordable and powerful virtualization storage solution.
VMware vSphere
Microsoft Hyper-V
Windows Server® Hyper-V® is included with Windows Server® and allows administrators to easily implement server virtualization. Every QNAP Windows Server® certified products and Hyper-V® compatible products have built-in iSCSI service which are compliant with SPC-3 for Windows Failover Cluster and Cluster Shared Volume.
Microsoft Hyper-V
Citrix XenServer
Citrix® XenServer™ provides essential features such as live migration and centralized multi-server management at no extra cost. QNAP Citrix® Ready products are fully Citrix® verified.
Citrix XenServer
QNAP CSI Plugin
for Kubernetes
Easily provision QNAP NAS storage to Kubernetes®, the open-source container orchestration, to support containerized workloads. Providing features such as creating/resizing/deleting volumes, Snapshots, enabling/disabling SSD caching, and cloning QTS volume, QNAP NAS is a flexible back-end storage for developers and IT teams.
Minimum requirements:
• QNAP NAS with QTS 5.0.1 (or later).
• Supports Talos v1.8 (or later).
Accelerate performance with iSER
With iSER-compatible NICs, QNAP NAS can significantly enhance transmission performance between VM servers while reducing CPU load. Based on tests conducted by QNAP, iSER can boost random read/write performance by up to 60% and reduce latency by up to 50% for all-flash storage arrays.
Learn More: iSER
| Virtualization solutions | VMware vSphere | Microsoft Hyper-V | Citrix XenServer | Kubernetes CSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iSCSI |
VAAI for iSCSI
|
Microsoft ODX (Offload Data Transfer) | iSCSI Storage Repository | Mount volumes with iSCSI |
| NFS |
VAAI for NFS
|
NFS Storage Repository | ||
| SMB | Mount volumes with SMB | |||
| Management tool | QNAP vSphere Client plug-in |
|
QNAP CSI Plug-in | |
| Certification | VMware Ready | Certified for Windows Server 2019 | Citrix Ready |
