QSAN XCubeNAS XN8008R/XN8008RE Series - XN8012RE

Highly scalable NAS Solution for large scale business

Highlights

Innovative NAS Systems

The XN8000R Series are next generation, highly efficient NAS systems which are designed for SMB and enterprise applications. The XN8000R Series are powered by the latest generation of Intel® Kaby Lake processors and up to 64GB of DDR4 ECC RAM. Cutting edge NVMe SSD technology ready, with two additional on-board PCIe slots for blazing performance and capacity expansion.

The PCIe expansion slots give the XN8000R the flexibility to respond to various application demands. Thunderbolt™ 3 and 10GbE/40GbE network adapter cards are supported to greatly enhance the data transmission speeds, and dual-port SAS expansion cards are also supported for scalability with our expansion enclosures.

Powerful Hardware Platform

Combined with the latest hardware technology, the XCubeNAS is able to fulfill various application demands efficiently. Extensive network bandwidth is provided, enabling the XCubeNAS to thrive in complex network environments. Additional PCIe option slots are included as standard, making the XCubeNAS a perfect device for SMB all the way up to big data applications or high performance requirements.

Moreover, the innovative mechanical design makes the XCubeNAS a versatile hybrid storage device. Without affecting existing large form factor slots, the XCubeNAS positions several small form factor bays for SATA and PCIe SSD’s at the rear side of the system, this way we can ensure that both the demands for capacity and performance can be satisfied.

 

The Next Generation Thunderbolt™ 3

With next generation Thunderbolt™ 3 technology, you can connect Thunderbolt™ devices to an XN8000R model directly with a 40Gb/s data transmission rate. XN8000R Series with Thunderbolt™ 3 is capable of transferring high resolution video smoothly and handling relative workloads with ease: to copy a 4.7GB DVD video will on average take under a minute.

Our Thunderbolt™ 3 add-on card (XN-TB302) is now certified by Intel and now available for purchase.

High Speed 10G/40G Adapter Card

A 10GbE/40GbE (10 Gigabit/ 40 Gigabit Ethernet) network is essential for businesses that demand high bandwidth for virtualization, and fast backup and restore for an ever-growing amount of data. The XN8000R are affordable and reliable storage solutions for deploying a 10GbE / 40GbE environment.

Scale-Up Solution

The XN8000R provides massive scale-up capability by connecting any of our expansion enclosures. It can support up to a whopping 210 disk drives or up to 2 PB of raw storage space when using 10TB HDD drives.

Virtualization Ready Storage

XN8000R Series are verified with VMware® Ready™, Citrix® Ready™, and Microsoft® Hyper-V™. No matter which virtualization environment you’ve adopted, the XN8000R Series are practical and efficient storage systems for you to deploy in any virtualization platform. QSAN’s XN8000R models can be used for primary storage repositories and as a backup to existing primary storage. As a backup storage device, the XN8000R Series supports a comprehensive list of 3rd-party virtual machine backup software to ensures that your VMs and data are never at risk of loss.

All-in-One Business Solution

Since having a dedicated machine for each specific task rapidly becomes an expensive and inefficient solution, XN8000R Series allows you to enable comprehensive applications and services on your NAS, whenever you need them. Everything from file sharing to data storage, even hosting a website, the XN8000R can do it all.

IP SAN / NAS Unified Storage

The XN8000R Series are a multi-role storage device that can play a major role in many different applications. In the simplest scenario, the XN8000R can be a file sharing server, a simple storage device for centralized office data sharing. Its high bandwidth network ports ensure that data is quickly read from and written to the NAS. Another scenario in which to use the XN8000R as a media editing platform.

The XN8000R has the performance and the stability for intensive media editing by a single user or by a group of users. A third example for the power of the XN8000R are as IP surveillance storage. In the surveillance world, recording every frame is of utmost importance. The XN8000R have the power and stability to record every frame sent to it without any problems.

Advanced Storage Technology

XN8000R Series tailor-made storage pool technology effectively caters to diverse storage demands on data integrity, scalability, high performance and availability. Comprehensive RAID levels are supported to ensure data integrity under every application scenario. Pool capacity could be expanded on the fly, rapidly responding to growing needs of for capacity. The design of the XN8000R Series allows for creating customized storage pools and auto categorization of data based on usage. “Hot” data will be moved to front line storage while “cold” data is stored on slower disks. All this is done automatically with the XN8000R.

Wide RAID Type Support and Instant RAID

XN8000R provides comprehensive RAID levels, 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60, for various application scenarios. Each RAID type can be instantly deployed with no initialization or synchronization phase, delivering safe, protected and high-performance storage space without any delays

Fast Rebuild

When a drive fails in a RAID set, the XN8000R are capable of rebuilding the data blocks that have been used, and not the entire RAID set. This helps reduce the risk of data loss during the rebuilding process.

 

User Defined Pool

Thinking ahead to common usage situations, the XN8000R series provides three optimized solutions for pools to achieve high performance and availability for dedicated storage applications:

Generic: Default type for generic file service or backup usage.

Media: Optimize IOPS for small packets of sequential RW and throughput for large, random packets.

Database: Data is synchronized between the memory cache and disks in real time for assurance of database Integrity.

Smart Auto-tiering

By using auto-tiering, it helps increase the performance of your business application without crippling your budget. The XCubeNAS features auto-tiering technology which makes the system continuously analyzes the accessing frequency of your data for better data transmission. The most frequently used data will move to higher speed tier, on the other hand, the less commonly used data will move to capacity tier. Demanding workloads of your business applications could be dramatically reduced, and the performance increased without massive investment in expensive all flash storage devices – this is all done by the XCubeNAS’s intelligent auto-tiering technology.

Deep Into SSD Caching

SSD cache is a large secondary cache that boosts data access speed by positioning SSD drives between primary DRAM memory cache and hard disks.

Thin Provisioning

“Take whatever you need.” That’s the philosophy of thin provisioning. Thin provisioning lets various services and applications use the same storage space without limiting how much of the quota can be used by each. With thin provisioning, space resources are dynamically distributed to the most demanding, responding to your business applications with higher flexibility and promising potentials.

Data Deduplication

The data deduplication feature of the XN8000R is an in- line, block-level function that checks the block similarity of data as it enters the system When duplicated blocks are found, they are not written to disk, therefore saving space.

Centralized Data Storage & File Sharing

The XN8000R Series provides lightning fast and secure ways to share files with anyone, anywhere. You can explore, organize, and move files between your computer and the XN8000R in deployment, all the while, being able to customize access rights to enhance security. A seamless integrated system allows for file sharing across different computing environments, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.

Quota Control on Accounts and Share Folders

Take control of your storage space, by adding quotas (limits) to the amount of data a user can store. Users can be limited on how much data a folder can store or the quota can apply to the entire system, thus empowering the admin with complete control of what is stored on the XN8000R.

Windows AD and LDAP Directory Services

By supporting Windows AD and LDAP, the XN8000R enables seamless account integration. Up to 200,000 domain accounts can be joined onto the XN8000R and their Home folder is automatically created, helping IT administrators reduce duplicated sets of credentials and minimizing their workload in giving default account settings and new user setup.

 

Windows ACLs and Advanced ACLs

Access Control List (ACL) is a permission list specifying what actions specific accounts take on folders and files. Advanced ACL lets you set permissions on subfolders, whereas Windows ACL enables you to apply Windows file permission mechanisms on files and folders. With both kinds of ACL supported, IT administrators can flexibly regulate file access rules no matter what operating system they use, protecting your data from unauthorized access or theft.

Powerful Web File Explorer – File Manager

Connect/share files via the web from anywhere in the world. The XN8000R has a web-based File Manager that allows users to access their data and easily share it with anyone. And it also provides file sharing across Windows ® , Mac ® , Linux ® , iOS and Android platforms by supporting multiple file access protocols including FTP, SAMBA, CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV.

Universal & Efficient Data Backup

The XN8000R Series effectively addresses the above challenges by providing comprehensive and effective backup solutions that assist you to design a complete and efficient backup solution to minimize the risk of data loss. Various storage devices, remote servers, public clouds even other XCubeNAS can be seamlessly integrated into your XN8000R, achieving an all-encompassing backup solution allowing data to be free, safely and efficiently preserved.

• Client side backup
• Remote backup
• Cloud backup
• Local backup

Client Backup to Your XN8000R- XReplicator

The most common cause of data loss is HDD failure, OS crashes or most commonly, accidental deletion. Comprehensive data backup is the solution to all your data loss woes. Backup all your data on your computer to your XN8000R with QSAN’s free untility, XReplicator. XReplicator is a free utility that’s is provided to help you easily backup an image of a disk,partition, folder or file. XReplicator is also able to backup an entire PC to the XN8000R as a bare metal backup. There is a way to quickly and simply recover your entire system, disk or file when using the XReplicator utility and the XN8000R solution.

• Supported Windows XP or higher Windows PC.

• Expert backup solution. Backup image only stored on XCubeNAS.

             - Opened file backup support.
             - Scheduling backup support (Monthly, weekly, daily, automatically).
             - Backup configuration for fast upload speeds (Single version, incremental and differential).
             - Personal key encryption.
             - Version control and clean up.
             - Backup filter.

Real-time Remote Replication

Data copies can be distributed to your trusted storage locations through real-time remote backup. By periodically copying data to different branches, your data can be recovered in the unfortunate event that a disaster happens. Data availability is ensured, offering businesses more options for a contingency and recovery plan.

Snapshot & Replica

Snapshots record the status of shared folders and iSCSI LUNs as changes happen on write. By periodically taking snapshots, administrators can better control data versions and execute point-in-time recovery on folders and LUNs, these can be flexibly restored to previously known good states. Replica can transport the version information to the target XCubeNAS, enabling administrators to utilize storage space based on their retention policies and space requirements.

XMirror

XMirror regularly synchronizes a volume or the contents of a folder between multiple XCubeNAS devices, any modification to documents will be replicated to other XCubeNAS. By using XMirror, data on different XCubeNAS systems, data consistency and availability is ensured.

• Support Volume and Folder mirror.

• 1-way (unidirectional): data modification of the local NAS will be synchronized to the remote, but any data modification of remote NAS will not be reflected.

• 2-way (bi-directional): any data modification of a NAS will be synchronized to the others.

• Version control (64 versions).

 

Amazon S3 Backup

The XN8000R Series comes integrated with Amazon’s award-winning enterprise cloud service, Amazon ® S3 enables users to backup the whole array to a remote site instead of another XCubeNAS or devices.

Build Your Own Cloud

Using Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox, you can build a hybrid cloud which allows you to access and backup the files on mobile devices, PCs, or thin clients anytime and anywhere. The XCubeNAS can be a cloud gateway to bridge your public cloud and private content and act as a central access point.

Security & Data Protection

The growing tide of data breaches, leaks, and malicious software means your data security systems and procedures are vital. Our QSM for XN8000R was built on a security-first ideology, it can offer you full protection of the data within your XN8000R. Tools are provided to prevent protect the system from hacking, and interception of data, theft, and accidental deletion.

Furthermore, using the inbuilt Anti-Virus, you can add tasks, scanning the entire NAS or selected folder with specific schedule.

Write Once Read Many (WORM)

WORM technology is design to prevent intentional or accidental modification of data in a certain period. Files and folders under WORM’s protection can only be read in a user defined period, it’s unable to modify any files or folders until the period has expired. WORM can protect your data from encryption-based ransomware that installs covertly on a victim’s system and encrypt their files, making them inaccessible. WORM will protect your confidential data from unauthorized modification and threat, ensuring the correctness and integrity of your data.

Self-Encrypting Drive (SED)

XN8000R Series can be safer than you can image with the disk self-encrypting technology called SED (Self-Encrypting Drive). With the technology, even if the physical drive is stolen or misplaced, the data on it remains protected against data breach by generating the authentication key (AK) to prevent the unauthorized access. However, the SED offered by QSAN provides the secured pools migration between different XCubeNASs and easy to manage the key by exporting AK for more efficient.

Pool Encryption with AES-256

XN8000R pool encryption mechanism ensures secured storage environment for any user who wants to modify data must first pass authentication. The XN8000R supports up to AES 256-bit encryption for internal drives and external USB/eSATA drives, and adopts a military level FIPS 140-2 validated encryption, which is considered to be the highest security certification for compliance.

Antivirus

The built-in antivirus function periodically scans files automatically quarantining suspicious files to protect the system from potential threats.

Specification

Hardware	XN8008RE	XN8012RE
CPU	Intel® Xeon® 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor
RAM	8GB DDR4 ECC U-DIMM, up to 64GB   *Note: The pre-install memory modules may need to be replaced when expanding the memory.
USB	USB 3.0 x4 (Rear) USB 2.0 x1 (Front)
Flash	8GB USB DOM
HDMI	1
Drive Bays	8 LFF with lock	12 LFF with lock
No. of Internal Hard Disks	8 (LFF disk )	+ 4 (SFF disk) + 2 (NVMe SSD disk)
Max. Raw Capacity	112 TB：14TB x8 ​Note：LFF=14TB	168 TB：14TB x12 ​Note：LFF=14TB
Hard Drive Interface	SATA 6Gb/s (backward compatible with SATA 3Gb/s)
Expansion Slot	PCIe Gen3x8 for ThunderboltTM 3 /SAS adapter cards PCIe Gen3x4 for 10 GbE adapter cards
Ethernet Ports	1 GbE LAN (RJ45) x4
Power	250W 1+1 redudant
Dimension (H x W x D)	19'' Rackmount：88.5 x 438 x 510 mm
Agency Certifications	FCC Class A • CE Class A • BSMI Class A • VCCI Class A • RCM Class A	FCC Class A • CE Class A • BSMI Class A • VCCI Class A • RCM Class A
Software
Unified Storage	NAS application server (Gigabit/10GbE) iSCSI storage (Gigabit/10GbE) Direct-attached storage with ThunderboltTM 3 (40GbE/s)
File Server	File sharing across Windows/Mac/Linux/UNIX and centralized management
FTP Server	Supports data access from remote location via FTP FTP with SSL/ TLS (explicit) mode FXP supported FTP bandwidth control and connection control Passive FTP port range control
Backup Server	3rd party backup software support: Acronis True Image, CA Brightstor ARCserve Backup, EMC Retrospect, Symantec Backup Exec, LaCie Silverkeeper Snapshot replica Time machine backup server External storage device backup Block-level real-time remote replication supports instant, schedule backup management XMirror (Multi-side data synchronization)  Cloud backup: Amazon S3 Cloud synchronization: Google Drive, Windows OneDrive, Dropbox
Web Server	Built-in phpMyAdmin
SQL Server	MariaDB database server
VPN Server	Supports OpenVPN, PPTP and IPsec+L2TP
Virtualization Server	Virtual machine import/export Virtual machine  backup Virtual machine  Snapshot User-based permissions settings Support virtual switch Supports access from IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome Multiple OS : Windows, Linux, UNIX and Android
Operating System	Linux-embedded system
NAS Discovery	XFinder Web Finder
Connection	IPv4, IPv6 and DDNS domain name registration (QSAN Cloud) Auto port forwarding
Networking	VLAN Link aggregation (support 11 bonding modes) Multi-IP settings Gigabit Jumbo Frame
File System	ZFS file system EXT2 (Virtual Volume) EXT3 (Virtual Volume) EXT4 (Virtual Volume) FAT (Virtual Volume) NTFS (Virtual Volume) HFS+ (Virtual Volume)
Supported Operating Systems	Windows Mac OS X Linux (2.6 or later) and UNIX
Disk Management	Single disk, RAID 0 (Disk Striping), RAID 1 (Disk Mirroring), RAID 5, RAID 5 + hot spare, RAID 6, RAID 10,  RAID 50, RAID 60 and JBOD (Linear Disk Volume) Multiple volume and storage pool User defined storage (Generic, Media, Database) Online pool/volume Capacity Expansion Pool/ volume usage threshold notification Self-encrypting drives (SED) pool level protection Pool write cache Scrub pool Convert cloned volume Virtual volume (mount disk from remote iSCSI target) Set free and replace disk HDD S.M.A.R.T. Built-in iSCSI target and initiator service External device management Global and dedicate hot spare disk Zero time RAID creation and quick rebuilding Auto Tiering SSD read/write cache Deduplication (volume and LUN) Snapshot (folder and LUN) Compression (volume and LUN) Thin Provision for LUN SSD Trim *Support up to 256 Volumes, 64 iSCSI targets, 255 iSCSI LUNs
User Management	Local / domain user and group management (Support up to 2048 local user accounts, 1024 local groups) Local / domain application privilege User quota for local and domain user Home folder Windows AD and LDAP Trust domain and support up to 200,000 domain users
Folder Management	Advance file ACL Windows ACL Hide shared folder on Windows network Unicode support WORM (Write Once Read Many protection) Folder usage threshold notification Folder quota *Support up to 2048 shared folders
System Tool	NTP time settings Notification: E-mail alert (SMTP authentication), Syslog, and SNMP System firmware upgrade Back up, restore, reset system settings Import system configuration Antivirus Smart Fan IP access control Policy-based unauthorized IP blocking Secure remote login by SSH connection Connection list management USB, SNMP UPS support Network recycle bin Import SSL certificate Real-time Resource (CPU, Memory, Storage, Disk, Process) / Hardware/ service/ network resource monitor
Power Management	HDD hibernation Power schedule Wake on LAN UPS settings Recover from power outage
System Optimization Setting	Service binding
Log	System log System connection and data transfer log
Multilingual Support	Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), English, Korean, Russian
File Manager	File preview Embedded file player Filter Mount Cloud (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox) ISO image mount CIFS, FTP, SFTP and WebDAV client Share link Team folder sharing Publish to facebook, twitter, weibo Media library Media streaming Online doc preview and editing Transcoding (online/offline), compression
Service	Data service: CIFS, AFP, NFS, FTP, WebDAV Backup service: Rsync Discover service: Bonjour
Virtualization	Windows: Hyper-V, storage space VMware: VMware 6.5 ready, VAAI, SRM Citrix: Citrix 7.0 ready
Multi-Browser Support	Internet Explorer Safari Firefox Google Chrome
Utility	XFinder XRplicator (Windows backup utility)
Warranty
Warranty	System: 3 years
Operating Environment
Temperature	Operating temperature: 0 to 40°C Shipping temperature: 10 to 50°C
Relative Humidity	Operating relative humidity: 20% to 80% non-condensing Non-operating relative humidity: 10% to 90%