Description

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya is 12 Bay, 2U NAS solution including 10GbE Adapter and WD Enterprise SE Hard Drives. The Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP serves as both IP-SAN (iSCSI) and NAS, can be easily utilized in different business and enterprise applications such as backup center, disaster recovery, file sharing, virtualization, and video editing storage. Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya offers a variety of security options such as encrypted access, IP filtering, policy-based automatic IP blocking, and more. In addition, full control of the NAS is offered down to the user and folder access rights to determine who can access the NAS and what can or cannot be accessed. The TS-EC1279U-RP is packed with security features to stop all unauthorized data access such as AES-256 volume-based encryption that prevents sensitive data from unauthorized access and data-breach even if the hard drives or the device is stolen.

The system features an Intel Xeon E3-1225 3.1 GHz Processor, 4.0 GB DDR3 ECC memory, 10 Gigabit network capability, and a 6.0 Gb/s SATA interface for high performance and fast data transfer rates. You also get blazing-fast data backup via USB 3.0. The server supports SMB / CIFS, NFS, and AFP protocols for file sharing across Windows, Mac, and Linux / UNIX networks. Real-time Remote Replication (RTRR) between the TS-EC1279U-RP and a remote QNAP NAS, FTP server, or external drive is also provided. Enjoy support for Amazon S3 and ElephantDrive cloud storage backup. The built-in iSCSI feature offers an affordable IP-SAN (Storage Area Network) alternative for businesses. The TS-EC1279U-RP provides AES 256-bit encryption. It functions as an all-in-one server, boasting file, FTP, backup, web, RADIUS, Syslog and print servers, as well as a surveillance station. Multiple LAN deployment is also offered

Key Features

• NAS, iSCSI, IP-SAN storage solution
• VMware, Citrix and Hyper-V ready
• High performance, secure, reliable, and simple
• 10 GbE ready reaching over 1,000 MB/s and 100,000 IOPS
• Multi-core processor, DDR3, SATA 6Gb/s, and USB 3.0

Enhanced Security

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya is equipped with a variety of security options, including encrypted access, IP filtering, policy-based automatic IP blocking and more. Also, control of the NAS is provided, down to the user and folder access rights, by determining authorized accusers from unauthorized intruders. The server is loaded with AES-256 volume-based encryption. This feature stops sensitive data from being accessed by unauthorized users, and also prevents data-breach, even in the event that the hard drive(s) or device is stolen.

Reliable Server

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya has built-in safety precautions to protect your data from unforeseen problems making it highly efficient asset. The sophisticated RAID configurations and hot-swap capabilities are included to offer RAID performance, protection and minimized rebuilding time. Moreover, it has dual OS embedded on the DOM architecture makes sure that the system boots up. In the event that 1 of the 2 operating systems fails, the healthy OS will boot up and operate normally while repairing the failed one. The dual Gigabit LAN ports are also configurable for failover, allowing the NAS server to sustain one network port failure and continue to provide continuous service.

Simple Installation and easy management

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya setup processes is simplified to the point where most of the necessary steps are either automatic or may be completed via an installation wizard. The user-friendly web GUI enables administrators to easily manage the NAS without extensive knowledge of complicated commands. Easy management tools like instant SMS / Email alert, the hard drive S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) feature, and system resource monitor are included to keep administrators up-to-date on their NAS at all times.

Ultra high Performance

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya features an Intel Xeon E3-1225 3.1 GHz Processor, 4.0 GB DDR3 ECC memory, 10 Gigabit network capability, and a 6.0 Gb/s SATA interface. The most demanding requirements in data center or corporate networks may be satisfied by this server. An exceptional data transfer rate of over 1,000 MB/s throughput and 100,000 IOPS 1 allows intensive business applications and concurrent tasks to be fulfilled with ease. With RAID 5, the server boasts 1,574 MB/s read and 1,738 MB/s write speeds (throughput), as well as 173,287 IOPS read and 173,318 IOPS write speeds, leaving other 1.0 GbE NAS servers in the dust.

NAS + iSCSI / IP-SAN Solution for Server Virtualization

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya provides class-leading system architecture paired with 10 GbE networking performance engineered to meet the requirements of demanding server virtualization–including VMware, Citrix, and Windows Hyper-V. The 10 GbE network speeds greatly enhance the agility of data transmission in a virtualized environment, improving NFS and iSCSI connection performance.

High Network Bandwidth

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya provides network expansion options, including dual-port 1 GbE and dual-port 10 GbE network expansion cards, to aggregate and improve network performance. The TS-EC1279U-RP features 2x Gigabit (GbE) LAN ports, expandable to 4x GbE LAN, or 2x 10 GbE LAN plus 2x GbE ports.

ECC RAM for High Reliability

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya is equipped with ECC (Error Correction Codes) RAM of the Turbo NAS is capable of detecting and correcting errors that are introduced during data transmission or storage. It provides greater protection in mission critical applications.

Blazing Fast Data Backup via USB 3.0

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya boasts USB 3.0 ports for fast backup to external hard drives. EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, and HFS+ file systems are all supported, ensuring compatibility with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems.

Cross-platform Sharing with Antivirus

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya is compatible SMB / CIFS, NFS, and AFP protocols for file sharing across Windows, Mac, and Linux / UNIX networks. User accounts and shared folders may be generated with the user-friendly web-based interface–no IT expertise required! The integrated antivirus solution for the Turbo NAS makes sure business workflow remains continuous by providing detection against the latest viruses, malware, worms and Trojan horses.

Windows Active Directory (AD) and LDAP Directory Service

Windows AD and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) directory service features allow the system administrator to retrieve user accounts from Windows AD or Linux LDAP server to the TS-EC1279U-RP, cutting down on time and effort in account setup. Users are permitted to use the same login name and password to access Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya.

Shared Folder Aggregation

As an added convenience, you can connect to the shared folders of other servers on Microsoft Networking via the “portal folder” on the TS-EC1279U-RP. This minimizes the hassle of logging in to various servers one by one.

ISO File Archiving and Sharing

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya supports mounting of ISO images of CD / DVD discs for network sharing folders for data archiving, storage and sharing. This feature conserves way more space than does storing the physical discs, lowers the risk of data loss due to long-term use of the discs, and improves the performance of data sharing on a business network.

Centralized Log Monitoring

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya features a central repository of log data from different network devices enables efficient business management and security auditing. QNAP Syslog server permits the IT administrator to collect and store logs of other network devices in the Turbo NAS.

Backup Center for Business

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya delivers a total backup solution for businesses with QNAP QBack / NetBak Replicator, which supports real-time and scheduled data backup from Windows PCs, Apple Time Machine backup from Mac OS, and 3rd party backup software, including Acronis True Image and Symantec Backup Exec.

Disaster Recovery Solution, Real-time Remote Replication (RTRR)

Offers real-time or scheduled data replication between Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya and a remote QNAP NAS, FTP server, or external drive.

iSCSI LUN Backup and Restore

The Turbo NAS takes iSCSI LUN backup/ restore to a new level with snapshot technology. The IT administrator is now able to use the LUN snapshot to back up contents in the LUN to different storage destinations, such as Windows shared folders via SMB / CIFS, Linux shared folders via NFS, or local shared folders on the Turbo NAS.

Cloud Storage Backup

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya provides support for Amazon S3 and ElephantDrive cloud storage backup, which feature several backup modes, such as real-time, scheduled backup and versioning control. This allows data to be restored from any point in time. With ElephantDrive, cloud storage may be monitored via web browser. An additional set of all of the data stored will always be available, making remote data recovery quick and easy.

NAS + iSCSI Combo Solution

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya is capable of concurrently serving as a NAS for file sharing and iSCSI storage.

Flexible Management

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya offers support for numerous LUNs (Logical Unit Numbers) and iSCSI targets. LUNs may be flexibly mapped to, unmapped from, and switched among various iSCSI targets.

Secure Deployment

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya is engineered with CHAP authentication and LUN masking, the sophisticated ACL (Access Control List) provides the ability to block unauthorized access from the initiators.

Designed for Virtualized and Clustered Environments

Compared to a high-cost Fiber Channel SAN, Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya is a cost-effective system that can be deployed as a storage center for virtualized and clustered server environments, including VMware and Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster.

SPC-3 Persistent Reservation Supported

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya has a built-in iSCSI service offers support for enterprise-level features, including SPC-3 persistent reservation for clustering in VMware and Windows Server 2008. The administrator is able to set up Microsoft Failover Cluster environment, utilize Cluster Shared Volume for Hyper-V, and execute virtual machine live migration between Hyper-V hosts.

Advanced MPIO and MC/S Supported

Thanks to MPIO (Multipath Input Output) and MC/S (Multiple Connections per Session) on the Turbo NAS, users are able to connect to the iSCSI targets on Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya using 2 or more network interfaces from their server with failover and load balancing. What’s more is that with MC/S settings, improved data transmission performance can be achieved.

Video Editing

Digital film and video production creates volumes of data needing high performance RAID storage with sustainable throughput, in order to provide balance with the demanding output of video editing. Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya fulfills storage and video editing demands with a fast 10 GbE network interface. Digital videos may be quickly stored and edited on the server directly over the network.

FIPS 140-2 Certified AES 256-bit Volume-based Data Encryption

Disk volume with FIPS 140-2 certified AES 256-bit encryption is only accessible via an authorized encryption password or key. This prevents sensitive government or business data on Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya from being accessed and breached by unauthorized users, even if the hard disk drives or the entire system were to be stolen.

Advanced Folder Permissions

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya allows users to manage the folder permissions from Microsoft Windows or the web-based management interface of the TS-EC1279U-RP without complex procedures. Advantages to this include: Private subfolder management within a public shared folder; ownership protection on root shared folders; clean folder structure for group sharing and IT management; and special permissions for dedicated user to perform data backup.

Policy-based Unauthorized IP Blocking

Administrator may allow, deny or auto block designated IP addresses or network domains which attempt to connect to the server via SSH, Telnet, HTTP(S), FTP, Samba, or AFP.

Remote Login

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya provides support for remote login via SSH (secure shell) or Telnet connection.

SSL Security (HTTPS)

Server supports HTTPS connection. The administrator is capable of uploading a secure certificate and RSA private key in X.509PEM format issued by a trusted provider to enable access to the TS-EC1279U-RP via secure SSL login.

Secure FTP

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya offers safe data transfer with SSL / TLS (explicit) encryption. Passive FTP port range setup is supported, as well.

Encrypted Remote Replication by Rsync

Data on the server may be securely backed up to or from another QNAP Turbo NAS or Rsync server over the network.

Shared Folder Management

Administrator may choose to hide or display the network shared folders of the server on Windows network.

User Authority Management

Administrator has the ability to create user ID and password, and define authority and quota for every user.

Abundant Business Features Including:

File Server

The server permits file sharing across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX platforms. It also provides support for WebDAV to allow easy remote access to the shared folders via HTTP / HTTPS protocol.

FTP Server

Administrators have the ability to establish an FTP server with Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya and conveniently share files with colleagues or customers.

Backup Server

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya RP provides total backup solutions with Apple Time Machine support, remote replication to an Rsync server, Windows client backup software QNAP NetBak Replicator, and 3rd party backup software support.

Web Server

Numerous websites may be hosted on the TS-EC1279U-RP with the built-in web server and virtual host feature.

RADIUS Server

Centralizes and consolidates user authentication by maintaining a list of user accounts authorized to remotely access the network via dial-up equipment, Wi-Fi access point, or VPN connections.

Syslog Server

By collecting and storing logs of other network devices in the Turbo NAS with QNAP’s Syslog server support, the IT administrator is able to easily monitor the status of these devices, and perform additional troubleshooting whenever required.

Print Server

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya provides cross-platform printer sharing over the network and remote printing over the web (maximum of 3 USB printers). IPP (Internet Printing Protocol), print job management, and Bonjour printing for Mac OS X are supported, as well.

Surveillance Station

Administrator is able to monitor supported IP cameras through the TS-EC1279U-RP and set up a video surveillance system with comprehensive monitoring, recording and playback features

IPv6

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya offers support for IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6), making the NAS a dual-stack IP host running IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously.

Advanced RAID Management with Hot-swap Design

RAID is a sophisticated feature that the QNAP Turbo NAS provides in order to improve data protection and performance. The QNAP Turbo NAS features a scalable design in addition to offering support for various levels of disk configurations, including RAID 0, 1, 5, 5+hot spare, 6, 6+hot spare, 10, 10+hotspare, single disk and JBOD.

Global Hot Spare

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya allows the administrator to share spare drives with numerous RAID volumes on the TS-EC1279U-RP. When a hard drive fails in any RAID volume, the global hot-spare drive automatically replaces the failed drive, in order to prevent data loss. Compared to a local spare drive, the Global Hot Spare function provides more efficient use of spare drives.

Multiple LAN Deployment

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya provides support for numerous bonding modes: Balance-rr (Round-Robin), Active Backup, Balance XOR, Broadcast, IEEE 802.3ad, Balance-tlb (Adaptive Transmit Load Balancing), and Balance-alb (Adaptive Load Balancing).

Wake on LAN

Enable this option in order to remotely power on the TS-EC1279U-RP via Wake on LAN. The Wake on LAN feature assists the administrator in the convenient management of the NAS.

Scheduled Power on / off

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya generate schedules to automatically turn on, turn off, or restart the TS-EC1279U-RP. You can set up to 15 schedules.

S.M.A.R.T. and Advanced Hard Drive Health Scan (HHS)

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya boasts of Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) aids the administrator in monitoring hard disk status. What’s more is that the TS-EC1279U-RP supports Hard Drive Health Scan (HHS) for disk checking and bad blocks scanning.

Comprehensive Event Logs

Detailed logs of file-level access to Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya by Samba, iSCSI, FTP, AFP, HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet, and SSH, as well as networking services accessed by online users, are all capable of being recorded.

Qnap TS-EC1279U-RP Kenya Specifications