Thecus Enterprise NAS Received iSCSI Certification

Thecus Technology Corp.‘s enterprise NAS, the 12-bay N12000 and the 16-bay N16000, have recently received VMware iSCSI Certification.

VMware provides a way to connect storage devices via a virtual machine platform and iSCSI provides the backbone to channel this functionality. With this type of setup, businesses can manage many types of data and applications without the waste of having many servers, each focused on their own task.

The Thecus N12000 and N16000 house up to a raw capacity of 36 and 48 terabytes, respectively. Companies dealing with this level of data requirements often have a range of services they need to provide, from internal data sharing to web serving to data backup. Virtual storage space can be managed in a multitude of ways with VMware: equally distributing data capacity between various services, creating flexible storage spaces that will expand and contract based on need, consolidating all the storage space, and more.

Virtualized environments make full use of the resources available. Because processors are more powerful relative to our needs than ever before and RAM and storage capacity are the cheapest they’ve ever been, it is no longer necessary to devote one processor with a set amount of RAM and capacity to one task alone. Where four physical machines providing mail serving, web serving, FTP serving, and file sharing may each use 1/10 of their processing power, 1/8 of their RAM, and 1/5 of their data capacity, one of those physical machines housing four virtual machines in a VMware ESX environment would use those resources more efficiently, saving on the cost of machinery and an amount of power. An additional advantage of this setup is that when your data nearly fills its capacity, expansion is as simple as buying more storage with no need to change or replace the system.