QNAP TS-870 8x3TB TS-870/8X3,0TB Manuel D’Utilisation

The QNAP Business Series Turbo 
NAS is a virtualization-aware storage 
solution which supports VMware 
vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix 
XenServer. QNAP vSphere plug-in and 
QNAP SMI-S provider highly increase 
the productivity and efficiency.

   VMware vStorage APIs Integration (VAAI) is a set of APIs that allow ESXi  

 hosts to offload processing for certain storage-related services to storage 
systems. The integration of QNAP NAS with VMware VAAI offers optimal 
performance for customers to deploy a virtualization environment.

   The QNAP NAS, VAAI iSCSI and VAAI NAS are VMware certified. 

Businesses can either select iSCSI or NFS as a centralized storage to boost 
performance. VAAI for iSCSI supports Full Copy (hardware-assisted copy), 
Block Zeroing (hardware-assisted zeroing), Hardware-assisted Locking, 
and Thin Provisioning with space reclaim. VAAI for NAS supports Full File 
Clone, Extended Statistics, and Reserve Space.

   The QNAP NAS uniquely supports VAAI iSCSI and VAAI NAS to enhance 

storage performance up to 75% in a virtualized environment.

• Enhanced Performance by VAAI

Storage for Virtualization 

Gigabit 

Network

10 GbE 

Network

Hypervisor

Hypervisor

(MB/Sec)

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Read
Write

100

500

1,000

2 Client PC configurations:
Intel

(R) 

Core

(TM) 

i7-2600 CPU, 16GB DDR3 RAM, 

Windows 7 professional 64-bit, Dual-port QNAP 
LAN-10G2T 10GBASE-T network expansion 
module, IOMeter sequential read and write.

QNAP LAN-10G2D 10G2T 10GBASE-T network 
expansion module, 802.3ad trunking mode, full 
load Samsung HD103SJ 1TB SATA HDD, RAID 5.

Connect the NAS and two client PCs to Cisco 
4900M 10GbE switch.

The vSphere plug-in allows users to manage the QNAP Turbo NAS directly 
on the vSphere client, making datastore management more effective.

0

VAAI OFF

VAAI ON

VAAI: full copy 

VAAI: Hardware-assisted Locking

VAAI: block zeroing

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200

300

100

200

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500

600

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Deployment time for a 30 GB Thick Provision 

Eager Zeroed virtual disk(lower is better)

Relative time for cloning 

a 30 GB VM (lower is better)

Relative time (seconds) 

Relative time (seconds) 

   With ODX support, the QNAP Turbo NAS becomes a high performance 

iSCSI storage solution under Windows Server 2012, including Hyper-V 
virtualized environment. QNAP storage enables full copies of virtual 
machines within the NAS without requiring the Windows hosts to read 
and write the data. This highly reduces the loading of Windows hosts and 
improves the performance of copy and move operations for Windows 2012 
hosts using the QNAP iSCSI storage. When providing QNAP storage to a 
Windows 2012 file server, the end user using Windows 8 client workstation 
will also benefit from the Offloaded copy process for large file transfers.

The QNAP TS-x70 Series Turbo NAS supports an optional 10GbE adaptor, 
including SFP+ and 10G Base-T interface. The 10Gb speed increases the 
agility of data transmission in a virtualized environment, intensifying NFS 
and iSCSI connection performance, and enables more VMs with multiple 
transactions running concurrently without performance penalty.

   The QNAP SMI-S provider enables management of the QNAP Turbo NAS 

directly through Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 
(SCVMM). 

Vitual disk 1

Vitual disk 2

Offload

Read

Results

Data

QNAP Turbo NAS

Token

Offload

Write with

Token

Token

Vitual disk 1

Windows Host 1

Vitual disk 2

Read

Results

Data

Data

Write

Data

Other NAS

Windows Host 2