Qnap Enterprise ZFS NAS ES1640dc

Qnap Systems, Inc. announced Enterprise ZFS NAS ES1640dc, a product line for mission-critical tasks and intensive virtualization applications.

Enterprise ZFS NAS ES1640dc rear

Representing a milestone for company’s step into the enterprise storage market, the ES1640dc delivers business-class cloud computing storage with Xeon E5 processors, dual active controllers, and support for virtualization environments.

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The ES1640dc runs the FreeBSD-based QES OS that assists businesses in building the most cost-efficient VDI platform and storage for critical data with near-limitless snapshots, block-level data deduplication, and thin provisioning with reclaim.

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The ES1640dc is powered by Xeon E5-2420 v2 processors with 32GB RAM and features dual active-active controllers, providing businesses with near-zero downtime HA. Other features include battery-protected DRAM write cache, dual 10GbE ports, optional 40GbE NIC, redundant power supplies, and a field-replaceable design for easier maintenance. The new FreeBSD-based QES OS also provides features including flexible storage pools, simplified management, high-performance SSD cache, near-limitless snapshots, SnapSync, block-based data deduplication, in-line compression and thin provisioning with reclaim for optimized utilization in VM storage.

“The ES1640dc adopts dual active-active controllers to provide the utmost reliability and HA,” said Waterball Liu, product manager, Qnap, adding “The new QES OS provides superior system functionality, but also provides a similar user experience as our well-reputed QTS OS to make it easier for existing Qnap NAS users to learn the system.“

As firm’s first OpenStack ready NAS, the ES1640dc is suitable for virtualization, virtual desktop environments, and is the choice for cloud applications. QES supports iSCSI Cinder Node drivers and provides block-level storage space to VMs. It accelerates the deployment of VMs, enhances VM image access efficiency through iSCSI, and is easier to integrate into commercial cloud storage platforms.

“VDI applications usually contain lots of duplicate data, and block-based data deduplication and data compression can help reduce storage usage, achieving optimal virtual desktop performance as deduplicated virtual desktops become easier to cache,” added Liu.

The ES1640dc is also certified for vSphere 6.0, and is compatible with Hyper-V, benefiting flexible deployment and management in virtualization environments. It supports VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX to increase performance by offloading server loading for ESXi server and Hyper-V respectively. The firm’s vSphere Client plug-in, web plug-in and SMI-S provider are also supported to enhance operational and management in virtualization applications.

EJ1600 expansion front and rear

EJ1600 expansion enclosures are also available for the ES1640dc. They connect via the dual path mini-SAS design to sustain continuous operations even if an external cable is disconnected.

Key specifications:

• Enterprise ZFS NAS ES1640dc:
  Dual-controller, 3U rackmount model; Xeon E5-2420 v2 6-core processor, 32GB DDR3 ECC RDIMM for main memory and 16GB write cache DIMM per controller; 16×3.5″/2.5″ SAS 6Gbps HDDs or 2.5″ SAS/SATA SSDs (optional LSISS9252 SAS-to-SATA Interposer is required); mSATA SSD dedicated to NVRAM; 2x10GbE (RJ45) LAN ports; PCIe Gen3 x8 slot: reserved for 40GbE or 10GbE LAN card, PCIe Gen2 x4 slot: reserved for dual path Mini-SAS; 2xUSB 3.0 ports; 770W redundant power supplies.

• Expansion enclosure EJ1600:
  Dual-controller, 3U rackmount model; 2xMini-SAS ports; 16×3.5″/2.5″ SAS 6Gbps HDDs or 2.5″ SAS/SATA SSDs (optional LSISS9252 SAS-to-SATA Interposer is required); 450W redundant power supplies.

The Enterprise ZFS NAS ES1640dc and expansion enclosure EJ1600 are available.