When it comes to virtualization deployment, it usually requires high-performance application servers and high-capacity storage servers to build suitable environments. 10GbE or 40GbE networks are necessary to connect virtualization environments to storage via iSCSI or NFS protocols. QNAP's powerful TDS-16489U combines all of these features into one box as an all-around Double Server. You can run multiple guest OS such as Windows and Linux with Virtualization Station, containerized apps with Container Station, and directly store all the data on the TDS-16489U through the internal 12Gb/s SAS interface, saving more money and space as a one-device solution with exceptional application performance and lower TCO of storage.
Distinguishably powered by dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors (with 4-core, 6-core and 8-core configurations), up to 1TB DDR4 2133MHz RDIMM/LRDIMM RAM (16 DIMM), and 12Gb/s SAS drive support the TDS-16489U can deliver outstanding performance for data transmission and applications. While providing the power to handle CPU-demanding tasks and everyday application needs, the TDS-16489U's unrivaled performance provides the ability for businesses and organizations to improve their Big Data computing to gain further insights, opportunities and values.
Suited for enterprise environments which demand the highest performance, simplified IT management, uninterrupted service, and optimized virtualization environments, the TDS-16489U is designed with high-standard hardware specifications to meet those needs.
The TDS-16489U supports Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro adapter cards with 10/40/56 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to deliver the most cost-effective computing and storage Ethernet Interconnection solution. It helps achieve significantly higher throughput for high-performance embedded I/O applications and virtualization acceleration. Businesses can greatly benefit from the fast, flexible storage network of the 40GbE-ready TDS-16489U for boosting their mission-critical IT performance.
QNAP's Qtier Technology empowers the TDS-16489U with Auto Tiering that helps continuously optimize storage efficiency. With Auto Tiering, the TDS-16489U can automatically move hot data to high-performance storage tiers and cold data to lower-cost, higher-capacity drives, making the TDS-16489U an extremely efficient shared resource. Businesses will no longer have to invest heavily in expensive Flash technology, but can still enjoy exceptional application performance and lower TCO of storage from Auto Tiering with the TDS-16489U.
QNAP Virtualization Station is a virtualization platform based on KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) infrastructure, allowing running Windows, Linux, UNIX and Android virtual machines (VM) for multiple operating systems. By sharing the Linux kernel, GPU passthrough, virtual switches, VM import/export, snapshot, backup & restoration, SSD cache acceleration and tiered storage: Virtualization Station empowers the TDS-16489U as a storage and application server (e.g. Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory Windows Server ) to utilize its utmost potential and to create virtualization environments suitable for server computing.
Software frameworks for Big Data management and analysis like Apache Hadoop or Apache Spark can be easily operated on the TDS-16489U using virtual machines or containerized apps, with boosted computation performance from GPU passthrough. The vast performance of the TDS-16489U allows analysts and information experts to focus on their work instead of being sidetracked by lacking performance.
Besides offering server-grade virtualization environment, the TDS-16489U supports Double-Take Availability to provide comprehensive high availability and disaster recovery. You can use Virtualization Station to 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, remarkably shortening the time for migrating data and reducing bandwidth consumption.
QNAP Container Station exclusively integrates LXC and Docker(R) lightweight virtualization technologies, allowing you to operate multiple isolated Linux systems on the TDS-16489U as well as download apps from the built-in Docker Hub Registry(R). It supports container import/export and permission settings, and features an informative dashboard and flexible user interface for you to manage multiple containers. You can experience the amazing Container Station and enjoy the playground of virtual containers with the TDS-16489U.
The TDS-16489U supports VMware ESXi and Citrix XenServer, and is compatible with Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012, benefiting flexible deployment and management in virtualization environments. The TDS-16489U supports VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX to increase performance by offloading server loading for ESXi server and Hyper-V respectively, and supports QNAP vSphere Client plug-in and QNAP SMI-S provider with enhanced efficiency of operations and management in virtualization applications. The TDS-16489U is also compliant with DataCore SANsymphony-V software-defined storage infrastructures, helping organizations maximize the availability and utilization of IT assets and centralize the management of data storage.
QRM+ is QNAP's Centralized Remote Server Management solution designed for IT teams. It provides a single-point solution to discover, map, monitor and manage all of the critical computing devices (servers/PCs/thin clients etc) in your network. IT administrators can manage every mission-critical server from multiple clients within or from outside of the same network. QRM+ displays customizable dashboards to simplify server management, increases visibility for the health status of mission-critical servers, maps discovered devices in a graphic topology diagram, and also provides a remote KVM solution for IPMI and KVM recording/playback.
QNAP's flexible volume provides a more secure and flexible way to store NAS data. This next-generation volume offers powerful features such as storage pooling with multiple RAID group protection, thin provisioned volume with space reclaim, block-level iSCSI LUN, and online capacity expansion. The QTS Storage Manager neatly presents tools and options for managing system storage which simplifies the process of NAS capacity expansion and QNAP RAID expansion enclosure management.
The TDS-16489U supports online capacity expansion by cascading multiple QNAP RAID expansion enclosures, allowing businesses to enjoy maximized ROI on capacity planning for Big Data. With the QNAP scale-up solution, total storage capacity can be gradually expanded on demand. It can also be useful for large data applications, such as video surveillance and TV broadcast storage.
With QJBOD Express support (JBOD enclosures roaming)*, you can simply connect a large-capacity QNAP expansion enclosure to the TDS-16489U, and migrate data to another NAS through the JBOD enclosure without network connectivity.