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Asked: 2010-11-20 08:34:51 +0800 CST

As a small business about to overhaul infrastructure and go virtual, how can we take advantage of all the features of the QNAP TS-439 Pro II+?

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Specifically, how can we benefit from these current list of features? We're very new to this and I want to be able to talk intelligently to our IT consultant.
VMware Ready Citrix Ready Built-in iSCSI target service Virtual Disk Drive (via iSCSI Initiator) Remote Replication Multi-LUN per Target LUN Mapping & LUN Masking Support SPC-3 Persistent Reservation Support

What other products should we compare this QNAP to? I appreciate how informative the site is, but they only seem to sell their products through a small number of channels. Is QNAP well known?

TIA!

virtualization iscsi network-attached-storage lun

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    Well it's a pretty low-end box, 'pro-sumer' as it were, presumably you want a NAS box like this because you want to use vMotion or similar? if you're not I'd very strongly suggest you spend the money on local/DAS disks, they'll be SO much faster. If you're using ESX/i then you can use this with either NFS or iSCSI - both will be pretty comparable performance-wise at this level. QNAP are vaguely well known for this end of the market, it's actually very similar to Thecus's 5200pro that I used to use at home to store my DVD rips, it was ideal for that until someone gave me something bigger.

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