QNAP and Real World

Sept 2016

By Amir Ghorbanali

In the world of Information Technology

The asset is Data

File System, Permissions, AuditIDS/IPS, Data Encryption, ACL

Management Console, OS, Configuration, Upgrades

HA, FT, RAID Protection

Storage tiers, architecture and Data migration plans

IOPS, Auto Tiering, iSCSI, FC, 40Gb, 10Gb

Snapshots, Deduplication, Thin Provisioning

On Site Backup, Off Site BackupRecovery, Disaster Sites

IOPS Data Processing Connection Speed

iSCSI, FC, 40Gb, 10GbCPU, Memory, OS, File SystemDisk types, Deduplication,Auto tiering

Ease of Management

• Knowledge and Complexity should be equal • Access to management console from anywhere • User friendly OS and management console• Easy to setup and upgrade

• Operation Speed• Maintenance Speed• Setup Speed

• Upgrade Speed• Recovery Speed• Service Delivery Speed

Safety is always the first

Stay Focused onReports

• High Availability (HA)• Fault Tolerance (FT)• RAID Protection

• On site and off site backup• Disaster Sites• Cloud Backup• Recovery

• IDS/IPS• Data Encryption • ACL

Make sure all options are enabled

DAS vs NAS vs SAN

DAS NAS SANSpeed High High HighNetwork Connectivity N/A High LowNetwork Connectivity Cost N/A Low HighAdministration Easy Easy HardAccessibility Hard Easy HardCapacity Low Medium HighDevice Cost Low Medium High

When should I choose DAS, NAS or SAN

A typical company or organization storage needs• Virtualization : Using VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, etc.

• Advanced features, need a fast and reliable shared storage• Some VMs need very high speed storage• Some VMs need very large storage space• Virtual application and desktop

• File storage and file sharing• All users must store their files in a safe place• They use shared folders with various permissions

• Backup and data archiving• Organizations want to keep their data backups• Some organizations store long-term archives

A typical company or organization storage needs

• Data security• Data protections against hackers and thieves• Detect and block intruders• Data Leakage and Audit

• Surveillance systems• Store and view IP camera videos

• Data display for visitors • Digital Signage Stations and solutions• Pictures and films archive solution

• Employee care and satisfaction • Music and Video Library• Download management• Application and game library

QNAP SolutionsBy Amir Ghorbanali

Big Data

• Support up to 8 NAS to be Virtual JBOD’s disk.• With a 8 bays NAS and 4 UX-800P Maximum 300TB*• Add Virtual JBOD: Over 1 PB total raw storage space.

VJBOD JBODInterface Ethernet, 1GbE, 10GbE or 40GbE USB 3.0 or SAS 6G、 12GNumber 8 Virtual JBOD’s Disk 1~8 limited by model and

port numberConnect Internet Direct or chainBackup Port Trunking NoneUsage A flexible and stable multiple devices

storage space is requiredQuickly expand the space of single device

ES1640dc + EJ1600

No. of RAID

Expansion

Enclosure

Total HDD No. (NAS +

Enclosure)

Max. Raw Capacity

(TB)*

7 128 1024

6 112 896

5 96 768

4 80 640

3 64 512

2 48 384

1 32 256

Server Virtualization Web ServerHost multiple websites in a single place

ERP/EIP/CRM SystemMinimize the cost & effort in managing core enterprise systems

Microsoft Exchange ServerOperate a large-scale Email Server

Windows AD ServerEasily manage user permissions & computers

The Turbo NAS is ideal for Web Server as it supports 10GbE network for delivering high-speed data transmission, a large storage capacity for archiving data, and QNAP RAID technology for trustworthy data protection.

Desktop and Application Virtualization

Benefits of using Virtualization Station• Supports various Operating Systems to install on VMs• Applications installed on VMs can expand the compatibility of the NAS• Aggregates IT infrastructure ( NAS + Servers > VMs in NAS )• Reduced time and cost to build up VMs compared to physical machines• More efficiency to deploy, operate and manage systems by using VMs

Internet of Things. The next revolution is here.

What about data storage for IoT?Now everything is connected to the Internet, and automatically-generated data is constantly growing.You may resort to public cloud services to store IoT data, but the storage cost could be considerable, and there are also privacy and security concerns that must be addressed. If valuable data is stored outside of your company/organization, it also leads to potential control and ownership issues.

QIoT ContainersYour private IoT cloud platform

You need a private cloud to backbone your IoT

Large storage capacity

Well-rounded security

Protocols for IoT

Shorter design lifecycle

Scalability for microservices

Integrated with public clouds

IoT use cases

Industrial Internet of Things

“QIoT Containers” starter kits for developers

IoT use cases

Smart parking with QIoTSmart home with QIoT

Healthcare/personal fitness with QIoT

IoT Server for 3rd Party Applications

QNAP Turbo NAS gives you the power to integrate your hardware with a complete cloud and IoT server!

The Turbo NAS supports features expansion by installing additional App Center apps developed and shared in the Linux open source community. The QNAP App Center incorporates numerous apps listed by categories, including business, content management system, communication, download, entertainment, utilities, and so forth. All the App Center apps can be installed and run right away with just one click.With QvPC Technology from QNAP, you can also centrally manage other network devices in the workplace such as wireless sensors, barcode scanners or card readers. The private cloud platform combines the NAS with IoT applications to create a secure and beneficial centralized management platform for managing hardware and software systems.

myQNAPcloud Service

• A personal cloud available from anywhere

• myQNAPcloud ID (QID)

• Manage multiple NAS

• Publish and shar

• Trustworthy file protection

• Freely access your data anywhere

• Mobile Apps

• Share and Stream your favorite media

• Centralize and protect your data

• Rich in features

QTS also provides other cloud backup services, allowing you to easily back up data on the QNAP NAS to services like Amazon S3, ElephantDrive, Symform, Google Drive Sync and Dropbox

DDNS, VPN Server and VPN Client

QNAP EnterpriseBy Farhad Razmkhah

An Over view on Enterprise Products

• Enterprise NAS• Expansion• ZFS Series • TDS Series

What is the Next?

Application Extensibility Business Continuity

Data efficiency

FILEBLOCK

Unified Storage Virtualization

VMware ESX VMware ESX

disaster recoveryHigh Availability

Dual Active-ActiveData

Integrity

Model Naming Definition

Chassis Type:TS = 3.5”/2.5” HDDTVS = 3.5”/2.5” HDDoptimised for Virtualisation StationSS = 2.5” HDD onlyHS = Fan lessIS = Industrial

REXP = SAS ExpansionUX = USB Expansion

Enterprise :TDSZFS/ES

ECC RAM:EC = With ECC RAMEmpty = Without ECC RAM

# of disk bays:e.g. 16 = 16 disk bays1 = single disk bay

Product series:Generally, the higher number is higher spec.All models in same series will have similar spec.

Redundant Power/SAS:RP = Redundant PSUSP = Single PSU, can support redundant PSUEmpty = No redundant PSUSAS = Supports SAS interface

Suffix Code:U = RackmountL = Low cost (reduced spec)Pro = Improved H/W specII = 2nd generation+ = Improved H/W specP = No meaningS = 2.5” HDD only (from 2015)

TS - EC 16 80 U - RPTS - 4 79 PTS - 2 51 L

Special Features Innovation

• Global Hot Spare• TLER & ERC

(Time-limited error recovery)(Error Recovery Control)

Fast Recovery- Not pushing NAS to rebuild

OS KernelFile System

QESQTS

ODXOffload data transfer

Pool / IP

Server Server Server

NAS NAS NASA B A B A A

Server-Side Copy Server-Side Copy + ODX(Fast Clone)

Meta Data

No Offload Offload (ODX) What We Done

Real-time Compression

Compression

Traditional storage

20-50%Less capacity

ES NAS

Data Deduplication (DE duplicated data is cached for much better performance by reducing disk access.)

• over 90% duplicate data from OS images and applications

C A B C DB A B A AD B B C A

A BC D

Deduplication

Deduplicated data is cached for much better performance by reducing disk access!

NVRAM Cache

Repeatability

Enterprise NAS Series TVS-EC2480U-SAS-RP R2 TVS-EC1680U-SAS-RP R2 TVS-EC1580MU-SAS-RP R2 TVS-EC1280U-SAS-RP R2 TVS-EC2480U-SAS-RP TVS-EC1680U-SAS-RP TVS-EC1580MU-SAS-RP TVS-EC1280U-SAS-RP TVS-EC1080+ TVS-EC1080 TVS-EC880

TS-EC2480U R2 TS-EC1680U R2 TS-EC1280U R2 TS-EC880U R2 TS-EC2480U TS-EC1680U TS-EC1280U TS-EC880U SS-EC2479U-SAS-RP SS-EC1879U-SAS-RP SS-EC1279U-SAS-RP

Over view• Memory : ECC DDR3 Series• Xeon Processors or Quad Core

– High Performance – High Reliability– High Stability– Rich Business Application

• High IOPS• 4 * Gb/s Ethernet Interface• 10Gb/s Ready(optional)• m.sata Support( Cache Accelerator )

For Example: TS-EC2480U R2

Up to 700TB

CPUTS-EC2480U-E3-4GE-R2: Intel® Xeon® E3-1246 v3 Quad-core processorTS-EC2480U-i3-4GE-R2: Intel ® Core i3-4150 processorTS-EC2480U-i3-8G-R2:Intel® Core i3-4150 processor

Memory

memory slots: 4TS-EC2480U-E3-4GE-R2/ TS-EC2480U-i3-4GE-R2:System memory: 4 GB DDR3 ECC RAM (Pre-installed: 2 GB x2)Memory expandable up to: 32 GB (8GB x4)TS-EC2480U-i3-8G-R2:System memory: 8 GB DDR3 (Pre-installed: 4 GB x2)Memory expandable up to: 32 GB (8GB x4)

LAN Port Built-in 2 x 10 GbE (SFP+) + 4 x GbE40GbE is optional

USB 4x USB 3.0 port (rear)4x USB 2.0 port (rear)

Form Factor 4U, Rackmount

SS-x79U-SAS Series

12 x 2.5-inch: SAS/SATA 6Gb/s, SAS/SATA 3Gb/s or SSD

On line transaction processing

CPU Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E3-1245 v2 Processor 3.4 GHz

MemorySystem memory: 8 GB DDR3 ECC RAMMemory module pre-installed: 4 GB x2Total memory slots: 4

Hard Drive 12 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA 6Gb/s, SAS/SATA 3Gb/s hard drive or SSD hard drive

LAN Port4 x Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet port(Expandable up to 8 x 1 Gb LAN or 4 x 10 Gb + 4 x 1 Gb /dual-port 10 Gb and 1 Gb network card)

USB 2x USB 3.0 port (rear)4x USB 2.0 port (rear)

Storage Expansion Port 1 (rear)

SS-EC1279U-SAS-RP

TVS-EC1080+ CPU Intel® Xeon® E3-1245 v3 3.4 GHz Quad Core Processor or above

Hard Drive 10 x 3.5-inch SATA 6Gbps/3Gbps hard drive or 2.5-inch SATA, 6Gbps/3Gbps hard drive SSD hard drive

LAN Port 2 x 10 Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet port ( Pre-installed in PCIe slot)4 x 1 Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet port (on board)

USB 3x USB 3.0 port (1 front, 2 rear) / 6x USB 2.0 port (rear)eSATA Port x2

TVS-EC1580MU-SAS-RP R2 15-bay 12Gbps SAS-enabled hybrid NAS supporting 3.5” & 2.5” drives & NAS/iSCSI/IP-SAN with dual built-in 10GbE

9 x 3.5-inch SAS12Gbps, SAS/SATA 6Gbps/3Gbps hard drive or 2.5-inch SAS/SATA SSD hard drive

6 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA SSD hard drive Built-in 256GB mSATA 3,800+ MB/s throughput and 238,000+ IOPS Auto Tiering for optimal storage efficiency

How easy to create an auto-tiered storage pool!– TVS-EC1580MU-SAS-RP

with Qtier™ enabled

• 6x SAS-SSD : SEAGATE 1200.2 SSD 200GB (SAS) - RAID5

• 9x SATA drives : SEAGATE NAS-HDD 2TB (SATA) - RAID6

Total capacity : 14 TB Test software : Iometer & login VSI

• 4K , 100% random read IO • server is a server with Windows 2012 R2, only 8 GB RAM to avoid memory

cache-hit• ~130,000 IOPS with average latency lower than 0.5ms!

Expansion Units

Expansion Model View

Expansion Units• EJ1600 (High-performance, dual-controller SAS RAID expansion enclosure)

– Ideal for the dual-controller Enterprise ZFS NAS

– (support maximum 1024TB raw capacity)

REXP-1620U-RP (12Gbps SAS RAID Expansion Enclosure : Max 1216 TB) REXP-1220U-RP (12Gbps SAS RAID Expansion Enclosure : Max 960 TB) REXP-1000 Pro (12Gbps SAS RAID Expansion Enclosure : Max 240TB)

• UX-1200U-RP (support maximum 288TB raw capacity)• UX-800U-RP (support maximum 192TB raw capacity)• UX-800P (support maximum 192TB raw capacity)• UX-500P (support maximum 144TB raw capacity)

TX-800P (Thunderbolt expansion enclosure ,MAX : 448 TB ) TX-500P (Thunderbolt expansion enclosure ,MAX : 304 TB )Maximum storage pool size 308TB

How it is possible!Cascading

Back to Back Connection

Expansion Units• Smart power design

– The UX-800P automatically powers on and off with your Turbo NAS, allowing for total convenience and energy saving.

• Automatically detect• Missing mode protection

– If your UX-800P is accidentally disconnected, the Turbo NAS enters missing mode and blocks I/O access to protect the stored data. The system can then recover from the missing mode to the normal state with data staying intact.

Enterprise ZFS NASES1642dc / ES1640dc

For mission-critical tasks and intensive virtualization applications

• QESEnterprise Operating System(Open ZFS / Free BSD Core)

• ZFS (Zettabyte File System)• 40GbE NIC support (dual-port QSFP+ 40GbE NIC )• Dual active controllers,dual mini-SAS channel backup• Data deduplication & compression• NVRAMw/Copy-to-Flash• HPE Helion support (hybrid cloud solutions)+ Open Stack (Cloud Computing)• Block-level • SnapSyncfor disaster recovery

HPE cloud management and automation software / cloud strategy around hybrid management

Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2 series processorActive-Active HA

Dual controller

Uninterrupted operation and high data availability

Field-replaceable unit

The Essentials of QNAP ES NAS• Built for Business• BBU (Battery backup unit for SSD caching) (NVRAM w/ Copy-to-Flash)• capacity to over 1 PB • ZFS File system

– Copy on write– Data Integrity– Raid-Z

• Critical Applications• Disaster Recovery (remote disaster recovery)

– fully supports VMware vCenter Site Recovery (SRM) technology, provides Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for SRM, and provides enterprise-class remote backup & disaster

• Both the software and hardware architecture were built from the ground up to completely support virtualization

• It is easy to use, has a low learning curve, and the fastest deployment speed.• Microsoft ODX to increase performance by offloading server loading

• Intel Xeon E5-2400v2 Series • Dual Path Mini -SAS JBOD• Capacity to over 1PB with expansion

Logical View

QTS vs QES

QESQNAP Enterprise System

QTSQNAP Turbo NAS System

Hardware platform Enterprise ZFS NASES series NAS

QNAP Turbo NASTS / TVS / TAS / TDS series

Operating system kernel FreeBSD LinuxApp Station No YesContainer Station No YesDual active controller Yes NoNVRAM (Write to cache) Yes No40G Ethernet network Yes YesSnapshot upper limit 65535 1024Deduplication Yes NoReal time data compression Yes No

End-to-End Data Integrity Yes No

Remote disaster backup & recovery SnapSync Snapshot Replica

TDS SeriesApplication Server + Storage Server

Hyper Converge

Specification

TDS Series

• Dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 V3• 4 * 2.5” SSD (Dedicated flash cache)• 4*10 GBE SFP+• IPMI : Remote Management

Intelligent system management monitoring control and alert( To reduce administration cost )– Remote power Control– Hardware Sensor Monitoring– Temperature + Voltage +Fan Speed– Hardware event logs– Administration– KVM

• GPU path-through (AMD Radeon R7&R9)New Graphic Card installation + 3D and Transcoding +Dedicated graphics to VM

• SDN• 300 Vm

– Desktop:– Windows 10– Office 2010– 2 vCPU– 4 GB of RAM

TDS Series

10 GbE SFP+ x 4

IPMI Management

portIPMI VGA

IPMI console

USB 3.0x 4

PCIe slot x 4

RedundantPower supply

GigaLAN x 2

2.5” HDD/SSD x 4

TDS Series

TDS Throughput 3800 MB/s 260 000 IOPS

Big data analytics• NVMe(SSD PCIe interface for caching)

• Qtire

• Such as Hadoop & apache Spark

8-10 times faster (Based on Hadoop/YARN)

The Apache™ Hadoop® project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models.

• Deduplication data at block level(Even across multi TDS)• QPLUS : (Server Management Solution not mean vcenter)

Auto Discovery

• Container :Docks / LXC (Internal Bus)• Support :

– AD– DNS– SQL– Exchange 2016– Php– Mysql admin

ContainerPlatform as a service ( Paas)

• Docker / LXC• Application can be run without VM.(Fast, low over Head , No need

OS)• Application can be uploaded(Pushed) from NAS to a public

cloud.• Isolation Supported

VMs support directly (HA & Migration + Double Take AV)

ReplicaBy Virtualization Station create a passive backup virtual machine for a primary physical server, or establish two virtual machines and make one active system and the other passive system. The backup virtual machine supports failover for the primary system whenever needed to enable data protection and continuous services. The backup environment using Double-Take replicates incremental data in real-time

Expansion

Max Capacity 1152TB

Any questions, please?