Unified storage management
QNAP Turbo NAS business series is unified storage which can serve as iSCSI SAN storage and NAS. The powerful Storage Manager assist you
to manage iSCSI LUN and volume efficiently.
Intelligent Storage Manager
The QTS Storage Manager neatly presents tools and options for managing system storage with an intuitive graphical interface. From reviewing
the system storage allocation in the Dashboard, to managing volumes, Storage Pools, disks and iSCSI storage, the Storage Manager provides a
centralized place to easily manage different hard drives (e.g. SAS HDD and SATA HDD) and to maximize storage usage of the tiered and unified
storage.
iSCSI LUN and
volume status
Storage pool
status
Disk health
status
QNAP flexible volume
QNAP Flexible Volume provides a more secure and flexible way to store and manage the NAS data. This next generation volume offers powerful
features such as storage pooling with multiple RAID, thinprovisioned volume with space reclaim, and online capacity expansion.
Volume
Space used for shared folders and iSCSI LUN to store data.
Online Volume Expansion
Storage pool
Multiple RAID Groups can be aggregated as a storage pool.
RAID Group
Online Storage Pool Expansion
Grouping individual physical drives together by setting RAID to
form a single “bigger drive”.
Secured storage pool for over 100-disk deployment
To ensure the safety of valuable business data, QNAP Flexible Volume provides a secured way to deploy a large volume. The logical volume is
allocated from a Storage Pool, which is composed of multiple RAID Groups to gain higher redundancy and reduce the risk of data crash from
failed hard drives since the data is dispersed throughout multiple RAID arrays.
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