4.5.1 Cisco

[Wynellewe Gr]

Virtualizationis essential for optimizing resource utilization and managerial efficiency. Organizations can enjoy greater flexibility for dynamic IT needs to increase operational productivity and service reliability.

Virtualization Station 3.5 supports VM live migration. When NAS software/hardware must be updated/maintained, you can move running VMs between different NAS with no impact on VM availability, providing flexibility and efficiency for VM applications. VM live migration can only be used with NAS with the same processors (i.e. Intel & Intel, AMD & AMD).

Install a QXP-W6-AX200 Wi-Fi 6 PCIe card in your QNAP NAS to add 802.11ax high-speed wireless connectivity and remove the need for Ethernet cables. QTS 4.5.1 adds support for WPA2 Enterprise that provides wireless security suited for enterprise networks, including certificate authority, encryption key, and enhanced encryption/decryption.

Supports IPv6, firewall access lists, and GeoIP filtering to restrict access upon the geographical location for higher network security. You can also install the pfSense VM from the Virtualization Station VM Marketplace to attain advanced networking and security deployments to protect NAS data.

Microsoft Azure AD DS provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). By adding a QNAP NAS into Azure AD DS through site-to-site VPN connection or through Windows Server using Azure AD Connect, IT staff are free from deploying and managing domain controller locally, and have greater efficiency in managing user accounts and permissions for multiple NAS devices. It provides flexibility, scalability, and extreme convenience.

The new QuLog Center provides graphical statistic rankings of error/warning events and access, assisting you in quickly monitoring and responding to potential system risks. QuLog Center supports labels, advanced search, and log sender/receiver. Logs from multiple QNAP NAS can be centralized to the QuLog Center on a specific NAS for efficient management.

When performing maintenance/troubleshooting, or if IT/support staff are unable to access QTS via HTTP/S, Console Management can be used to perform basic configuration and debugging. Console Management is available using SSH, Serial Console, or by connecting an HDMI display, keyboard, and mouse to the NAS.

QTS 4.5.1 enhances storage scalability by supporting more QNAP expansion units, including the high-speed TL SAS/SATA JBOD series and hassle-free TL USB JBOD series for satisfying efficient and economic file storage and backup needs.

The TL SAS JBOD has four SAS wide ports, and each SAS wide port combines four SAS 12Gb/s channels. By connecting the TL SAS JBOD to the host NAS and daisy-chaining multiple TL SAS JBODs with two wide ports configured with link aggregation, the solution delivers up to 96Gbps transfer speeds. The TL SATA JBOD supports multi-lane SATA 6Gb/s transfer, achieving speeds of up to 64Gbps. The TL USB JBOD provides a USB 3.2 Gen2 port that supports up to 10Gbps transfer speeds.

QTS supports the Wi-Fi Client function, enabling a NAS with a PCIe wireless network card (such as a QXP-W6-AX200) or compatible USB Wi-Fi adapter to wirelessly connect to access points. Free yourself from Ethernet cables now with a wireless NAS!

With a QXP-W6-AX200 Wi-Fi 6 wireless network card installed in your NAS, you can free yourself from Ethernet cables and access all your stored files and multimedia over a high-speed wireless connection.

This document provides overview of upgrade process involved in Cisco vBranch based on ENCS hardware and NFVIS software. Same procedure is applicable to other NFVIS devices like 8200uCPE and CSP5000 platforms also but the upgrade affects NFVIS only and not other software components like CIMC, BIOS.

Upgrade package is approx 1/3rd the size of full image, quicker to download from cisco website and upload onto NFVIS device. This method is practically feasible when the target is N+1 release or N.x minor upgrade release. If the NFVIS devices are using any of NFVIS 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x, 3.12.x, 4.1.x, this method can be used to get to NFVIS 4.2.

Fresh installation of NFVIS 4.6 and optionally managing the deployment with vmanage would be recommended for 2+ step upgrade situations, particularly for NFVIS devices on 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x, 3.12.x releases. For fresh installation of NFVIS, you can use the Getting Started with ENCS.

Fresh installation of NFVIS 4.6 and optionally managing the deployment with vmanage would be recommended for 2+ step upgrade situations. For fresh installation of NFVIS, you can use the Getting Started with ENCS.

3a8082e126