The ES2486dc Enterprise ZFS NAS is QNAP’s first high-availability NAS with all-flash arrays and dual active controllers. Powered by an Intel Xeon D-2142IT 8 cores/16 threads processor, the ES2486dc supports up to 24 x 2.5-inch SAS 12Gbps SSDs and provides excellent I/O throughputs. Random write performance for all-flash arrays is further driven by the flash-optimized QES 2.1.1 operating system that comes pre-installed on the ES2486dc. The QES uses ZFS to support logical volume management; block-based inline data deduplication and inline compression reduce I/O and SSD storage consumption, which significantly extends SSD lifespan with higher price-performance ratio for all-flash storage arrays. Coupled with near-limitless snapshots and SnapSync for data protection, the QES-based ES2486dc fulfills demanding business applications, such as mission-critical file servers, virtualization servers, VDI, medium-sized data center, video streaming, surveillance storage, and efficient file backup and recovery.

Intel Xeon D dual active-active controllers provide superb uptime and redundancy to ensure high availability (HA).

Battery-protected DRAM write to cache data protection and flash read acceleration provides industry-leading random access performance.

PCIe expandability allows for 10GbE/25GbE adapters to increase application performance.

Four 10GbE SFP+ ports accelerate large file sharing and intensive data transfer from virtualization or datacenter.

Near-limitless snapshots and SnapSync for snapshot remote backup assist businesses to resume essential services in the shortest time.

Supports VMware vSphere 6.5, Windows Server 2019 and Citrix XenServer 7.0 for storage virtualization. Compatible with OpenStack cloud environments.