For enterprises and workgroups that demand resource elasticity and budget flexibility qutscloud can be implemented as virtual machines vms running on existing on premise data centers.
Virtual nas appliance hyper v.
In hyper v manager virtual machines right click the vm connect.
Before you start this guide make sure you have created a basic hyper v virtual machine.
You can deploy the xg firewall virtual appliance on citrix xenapp platform.
Open a browser on any machine that can connect to the vm and open the url of the appliance web app.
You can deploy an xg firewall vhd virtual hard disk on hyper v platform.
Start new virtual machine wizard hyper v introduction before you begin screen step 2.
Challenges and solutions q center now provides q center virtual appliance that allows you to deploy q center in virtual environments such as microsoft hyper v or vmware esxi fusion and workstation.
Qutscloud is a virtual appliance based on qnap s qts nas operating system.
Alternately you can open the app from the appliance desktop by clicking the app shortcut.
Integrate cloud object storage with your existing storage servers.
Specify a name and location for the hyper v vm hyper v name the vm.
Https appliance name or ip address.
You can deploy the xg firewall virtual appliance on the kvm kernel based virtual machine platform.
It s a pretty big list so here s some advice if you don t know which one to choose.
Multipass list virtualbox instructions on virtualbox forward the appliance port to the outside world with this command in an administrator powershell.
Just know this basic setup procedure will be referenced in forthcoming articles regarding how to configure hyper v for the various nas san appliances.
If you use raidz protection it will use one of the virtual disks for parity and you will be required to provision 4 5 tb of space from the san nas storage array to get 3tb of usable space.
List of vsa virtual storage appliances storage simulators san and nas demos i ve compiled a list of where you can find storage simulators and virtual storage appliances for free below.
Hardware agnostic software compatible with all stonefly appliances most mainstream servers emc hpe and others software defined storage compatible with hyper v vmware citrix formerly xenserver hypervisors.
See the guide here.
Hyper v instructions on hyper v find your virtual appliance ip address.
Provision virtual nas virtual san on unused storage space.
Using q center as a virtual appliance further increases its flexibility.
For the guide to making a generic virtual machine for freenas openfiler opensolaris linux and etc.
This guide will show the basic hyper v virtual machine setup for installing freenas an open source nas appliance based on freebsd.