Qnap ES1686dc Enterprise ZFS 3U 16-Bay and 4 M.2 SSD Slots NAS

Qnap Systems, Inc. launched the ES1686dc, an enterprise ZFS NAS that features dual active controllers with Intel Corp.‘s Xeon D processors for HA.

It supports 12Gb SAS, and each controller has four 10GbE SFP+ LAN ports, eight RDIMM slots for up to 512GB memory, two M.2 SSD slots for configuring SSD caching, and scalable design for up to 1PB storage capacity. It is powered by the latest QES 2.1.0 OS that adopts ZFS and provides reliable data protection, recovery, and features to assist businesses in accelerating mission-critical services and tackling the challenges of VDI applications.

“The ES1686dc demonstrates excellent performance and an uninterrupted HA storage solution,” said David Tsao, product manager, Qnap. “Whether being used as a mission-critical file server, virtualization server, VDI, medium-sized data center, video streaming, surveillance storage, and efficient file backup and recovery, the ES1686dc can achieve service-level agreements for performance and uptime.“

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Featuring a dual active-active controller architecture, the ES1686dc ensures near-zero downtime HA. Battery-protected DRAM write to cache data protection and flash read acceleration reduces the risk of losing write cache data, and industry random access performance accelerates operations in VMs environments.

Two PCIe slots support 10GbE/40GbE network cards to boost virtualization, media streaming, and other bandwidth-demanding applications. Leveraging the QDA-SA 6Gbps SAS to SATA drive adapter, the ES1686dc allows the use of a 6Gb SATA drive in a 3.5-inch SAS drive bay, enabling SATA SSDs to share the SAS dual-port advantages for fault-tolerant enterprise storage environment and assisting organizations to establish a performance yet cost-effective all-flash storage system.

The ES1686dc Enterprise ZFS NAS features the QES 2.1.0 OS that is optimized for all-flash storage arrays. It performs data reduction with inline data deduplication and inline data compression, and comes with numerous features including self-healing for silent data corruption, near-unlimited snapshots for iSCSI LUN and shared folders, SnapSync to accelerate remote backups, and QoS to ensures consistent primary storage performance.

The ES1686dc supports VMware, Microsoft and Citrix virtualization, and SnapSync supports VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to offer enterprise remote backup and DR solution for virtual applications.

The upgraded QES 2.1.0 adds supports for iSER to optimize VMware performance, and for OpenStack Cinder and Manila file sharing services, providing businesses with a flexible, easy-to-use, and low-cost storage solution for OpenStack environments.

Key specification:

ES1686dc-2145NT-128G: Xeon D-2145NT 8-core/16-threads 1.9GHz processor (burst up to 3.0GHz), 128GB DDR4 ECC memory (64GB per controller)
ES1686dc-2145NT-96G: Xeon D-2145NT 8-core/16-threads 1.9GHz processor (burst up to 3.0GHz), 96GB DDR4 ECC memory (48GB per controller)
ES1686dc-2123IT-64G: Xeon D-2123IT 4-core/8-threads 2.2GHz processor (burst up to 3.0GHz), 64GB DDR4 ECC memory (32GB per controller)

Active-Active dual-controller system, 3U rackmount NAS; 16×3.5-inch/2.5-inch 12Gb/6Gb SAS HDDs or 2.5-inch SSDs; M.2 SSD dedicated to NVRAM; two PCIe Gen3 x8 slots; four 10GbE SFP+ ports; three Gigabit ports; two USB 3.0 ports; 770W redundant power supplies

The ES1686dc Enterprise ZFS NAS and QDA-SA drive adapter are available.