TS-410 & VMware vSphere

[andymcm]

Been considering getting a TS-410, has anyone else got one of these working with VMware vSphere ESXi?

Am very keen on using it for iSCSI, look forward to hear from anyone.

Andy.

[QNAPIvan]

The iSCSI on TS-410 and the ARM based models can work with VMWare, but not for the clustering setup.
We are working on the enhancement of the SPC-3 support for the Intel-based products.
That will be available by firmware update.

Best regards,
Ivan

[andymcm]

Hi Ivan

Thanks for getting back to me on this one.

Could you confirm a couple things then for me please:

1) When you say "clustering setup", do you mean clustered TS-410's or do you mean using two or more ESX hosts attaching to a TS-410?
2) The TS-410 is ARM based? so that means that it will not get SPC-3 SCSI support?

Much appreciate help.

Cheers
A.

[QNAPIvan]

Dear andymcm:
Hello, to answer your concerns:
1) clustering means the VM-cluster(servers) on the VMWare vSphere setup. Not clustering of the NAS.
2) Yes. TS-410 is ARM based (Marvell 6281) designed for home. Currently we don't have plan to support the SPC-3 for TS-x10 and TX-x19's iSCSI target.

Cheers,
Ivan

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[drollond]

I have a TS-410 and found iSCSI was constantly causing issues and not that fast.
I moved to NFS and find the unit solid. Max up time so far is 62 days over the last 6 months. All but one restart was due to external factors (power etc)
I run 30 VM's on it (XP mainly)
I also use the cheapest 2TB Segate drives on the HCL in RAID 5. My host is a single HP DL380 8 cores and 56GB RAM.

Its slow but once the VM's are up its not so bad. It was never designed to be this way its mainly a proof of concept to see how much we can throw at the base model. issues we have with it is any kind of large IO (migrating a VM, backup or some kind of large file transfer) kills the units and the VM,s suffer badly. For a few users who can organised to use the units at different times to when you are doing these large IO's its OK. Unfortunately on this one its also a file store for ISO's, images and a backup target so it gets hammered constantly.

I will be in the market for another QNAP and migrate my VM's there. For the price I am very impressed.