Breaking BarriersComprehensive Virtualization

SolutionsA hybrid Approach to Virtualization

A hybrid approach to Virtualization

Virtualization Station 2.0Server/Desktop Virtualization.

– Secure, isolated computing environment.– Supports Windows, Linux, UNIX and Android.

Container Station 1.0 Container-based Virtualization.

– Supports importing/exporting LXC and Docker containers.

– Easy deployment, lightweight, portable and efficient.

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Virtualization solution / demand

Windows OS

Windows-based Application

Linux OS

Linux-basedApplication

DeploymentTime

Hardwareresources

Virtual Machine Medium Medium

LXC - - Fast Low

Docker - - - Fast Low

LXCVirtual

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Comprehensive Virtualization

Solution

VM LXC Docker ‧ ‧

Virtualization Station Container Station

It is better to have LXC !

LXC： Lightweight virtualization to Linux OS.

Docker： Container-based application virtualization.

LXC Docker

architecture Supports fully-virtualized Linux including boot-up procedures such as init and daemon.

Single image, sharing with the host kernel and running as an application.

Purpose

1.Run multi-applications on a single Linux OS2.Needs a full-function Linux , e.g. init, daemon3.Needs to upgrade the Linux OS version

1. Single container, single application2. Rapid cross-platform deployment & migration3. Independent containers within respective Linux

versions

Can Docker provide a fully-virtualized Linux environment for R&D development? Just Docker

is notgood enough!.

Virtualization Station- Server/Desktop Virtualization

NASVirtualization

Station

VM VM VM

What is Virtualization Station?

• Allows users to create and operate virtual machines (VMs) in the QNAP Turbo NAS.

VMware® ESXi™, Citrix® XenServer™, Microsoft® Hyper-V™

Traditional NAS QNAP NAS

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NAS Built-in Virtual Machines• A traditional NAS can only support virtualization solutions as sharing

storage. With Virtualization Station, the NAS itself has a built-in hypervisor.

Switch

How to Migrate an Existing System?• Convert an OS from physical to virtual by using VMware vCenter

Converter. This is especially useful for legacy/discontinued software and OS.– Supports for Windows Server 2003 will be stopped by the end of 2015.

Supports .vmx files generated by VMware vCenter Converter. You can directly import the .vmx file to Virtualization Station.

QNAP NAS features server-grade CPUs and hardware to enable 24/7 services, high-speed I/O, and scalable storage design.

How to Operate VM Console• Local access - intuitive, simple and fast.

– By using the VMs in the QVM Desk through HDMI monitors and with a keyboard & mouse, users can use a VM the same way they use a PC.

Remote Desktop Operations • Supports HTML5-compatible web browsers:

– Firefox、 Chrome、 IE…etc.

• Supports the industrial-standard VNC clients:– VNC, RealVNC, UltraVNC…etc.

• Supports others remote-access software:– Windows Terminal Services or Windows remote desktop– SPICE client– Teamviewer*– Splashtop*

* Need to install server-side software in the VM.

Tremendous 2.0

Virtualization Station 2.0

New network design –Virtual Switch

Adopting SDN

Disaster Recovery VM Backup & Restore

Central Device Management

USB 3.0 Pass through

Dedicated Network Occupies an Ethernet Port

Past Must attach a VM dedicated network.The transfer rate between VM and NAS is not fast.

底層網路設備提供開放式的控制界面

將資料流與控制信號分開 , 將各個底層設備整合為單一的控制界面

提供開放的 API 讓上層雲端應用動態的調度網路資源

Network Device

Control & Data Plane Programmable Interface (e.g.,OpenFlow)

Network Device Network Device

Network ApplicationsNetwork ApplicationsSDN Applications

Business ApplicationsBusiness ApplicationsBusiness Applications

(e.g., OpenStack, CloudStack)

Cloud Orchestration

SDN Controllers

Programmable Open APIs

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SDN Architecture

VM

1G bpsNIC

High-speed Virtual Switch

VM VM

NASData Volume 10G bps

NIC

Applications

vSwitchController

Triggers

Control

VM Orchestrator

QTS NASOperating System

Infrastructure Layer

Control Layer

Application Layer

Applications Applications

Virtual NICs Virtual NICs Virtual NICs

Virtualization Station (Hypervisor)

NAS Physical Networks

1G bpsNIC

1G bpsNIC

10G bpsNIC

10G bpsNIC

Adopting SDN

No Need for a Dedicated Network

Shares the same interface with NAS.

Supports hi-speed Virtual Switches.

Supports 10GbE network transfer.

Supports port-trunking interface.

Testing on TVS-EC1080, SSD*4 RAID 0, sequential read/write, 48GB file

Now

Dedicated NetworkVirtual Switch

6x

11xNAS VM transfer

Read

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Disaster Recovery: VM Backup & Restore

Disaster Recovery – Remote Backup & Restore.

Non-stop backup – online VM backup.

Shorten the VM downtime – directly boot up the VM backup.

Scheduled backups – Set a retention number and preserve VM snapshots.

Snapshots can only revert a VM to the previous normal status. However, if the HDD experiences problems, the VM image does not exist…

Past

Now

Moving VMs between NAS• VMs can be remotely imported/exported to/from other NAS or

other hypervisors such as VMware and VirtualBox.

Central Device Management

Fast and clear to see every VM’s settings.

Adjust HDD capacity, add devices, change controllers and connect USB devices from a centralized page.

It would be a hassle to adjust a batch of VMs’ configuration because it needs to be done one by one.Past

Now

USB 3.0 Connection

USB 3.0 passthrough is supported by Windows 8 (and above) and the latest Linux distributions for common USB devices such as storage, card readers, USB keys and printers.

USB 3.0 devices were limited to USB 2.0 speeds.Past

Now

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