QNAP TS-859 Pro Compatible With vSphere4

QNAP Systems, Inc. announced its 8-bay tower model TS-859 Pro Turbo NAS has been certified as compatible NFS and iSCSI with VMware vSphere4 (ESX 4.0) virtualization platform.

TS-859 Pro Turbo NAS can serve as both IP-SAN and NAS, which offers flexibility, ultra-high performance, easy configuration and management, as well as affordable price points that enable SMB and entry-level Enterprise customers to enjoy the advantages of VMware Cloud Computing environments. VMware vSphere is the industry’s first cloud operating system that offers a way to reduce IT costs and increase responsiveness. Shared network storage is an essential component of a Cloud Computing infrastructure. TS-859 Pro Turbo NAS can be easily integrated into vSphere. It also allows the interoperability between VMware virtual machines and QNAP’s high performance certified storage.

"QNAP provides our business customers with high performance and highly reliable networked storage that meets their needs and won’t break the budget. The IT administrators of small businesses and workgroups can now have an affordable and powerful alternative for the storage solution in the VMware virtualized environments," said David Tsao, Product Manager of QNAP.

TS-859 Pro offers enterprise-level iSCSI features, such as SPC-3 compliant, multiple LUNs per target, MPIO, MC/S, and LUN (logical unit number) masking. It offers up to 16TB storage capacity via 8 hot-swappable SATA hard disks, dual Gigabit LAN ports with fail-over, load-balancing and multi-IP setting capabilities. It also features RAID 0/ 1/ 5/ 6/ 5+hot spare/ 6+hot spare configurations which offer higher redundancy. Meanwhile, the advanced RAID management tool facilitates online RAID capacity expansion, online RAID level migration, and RAID recovery maximize system up time.

"Besides TS-859 Pro, the entire lineup of TS-x59 series Turbo NAS will be certified soon in June this year," Mr. Tsao added.