How to Install VMware's vSphere Plugin on your QNAP NAS

FREE TRIAL LICENSE DETAILS

For a FREE 1 year trial license of ANY QNAP licensed software, please email [email protected], with your QID (The email account associated with your QNAP NAS) and which software you’d like to trial. The license should appear in your account within 48 hours. In this series of short videos, we will talk you through how to setup VMware on your QNAP NAS. This video will cover how to install the VCenter plugin onto your QNAP NAS.

Systems used.
2 x HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus Intel Xeon E-2224 16GB RAM
TS-h886-d1622-16g with 2 x IronWolf 510 NVMe 480GB SSD, and 6 x IronWolf Pro 12TB HDD’s running QuTS Hero 4.5.1
VMware ESXi/vSphere 7.0

Virtualization applications supported by QNAP NAS
QNAP NAS supports a wide range of mainstream virtualization applications in order to help IT administrators increase the efficiency of virtualized environments in their organization.

VMware vSphere
VMware® vSphere™ is the industry’s first cloud operating system that offers one way to reduce IT costs and increase responsiveness. QNAP VMware® Ready™ products have been certified as compatible with the VMware® vSphere™ virtualization platform. IT administrators of small businesses and workgroups can now use a QNAP VMware® Ready™ NAS as an affordable and powerful storage solution in VMware® virtualized environments.

VAAI
VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Array Integration (VAAI) offloads specific storage operations for improved performance and efficiency. With a QNAP NAS and VAAI, standard virtual machine management operations and deployment can be performed faster, using less ESXi CPU, memory, and bandwidth.

QNAP NAS supports VAAI for iSCSI and VAAI for NAS. VAAI for iSCSI supports Full Copy (hardware-assisted copy), Block Zeroing (hardware-assisted zeroing), Hardware-assisted Locking, and Thin Provisioning with Space Reclamation. VAAI for NAS supports Full File Clone, Extended Statistics, and Reserve Space.

VMware vCenter Server Features

Simple Deployment
Quickly deploy vCenter Server as a pre-packaged, optimized, and easy-to-maintain virtual appliance. Integration of vSphere Update Manager into vCenter Server Appliance makes patching and upgrading fast and easy. RESTful APIs allow for the easily repeatable deployment of vCenter Server Appliance from a template, speeding up deployment times as well as reducing human error.

Proactive Optimization
Allocate and optimize resources for maximum efficiency with our server management software. Manage up to 70,000 virtual machines and 5,000 hosts across 15 vCenter Server instances. Use vSphere HA and DRS clusters to support up to 64 hosts and 8,000 virtual machines. Replicate roles, permissions, and licenses across the infrastructure so you can simultaneously log in, view, and search the inventories of all vCenter Servers. Link multiple vCenter Server Appliances and increase visibility without using costly load balancers.

Plug-in Extensibility
vSphere Client Plug-ins from VMware partners allow IT admins to manage third-party elements in their data center directly from vCenter Server. Our server management software has the largest partner ecosystem in the industry, with our open vSphere Client Plug-in SDK. As a result, vCenter Server customers can implement back-up, data protection, server management, network management and security management, directly from vCenter Server.

VMware launched the vSphere Client Plug-in Certification Program in 2016 to ensure a better end-user experience for customers. Certified Plug-ins deliver optimal performance, better security model, client isolation against failures in one plug-in, and enhanced vCenter Server Appliance scalability. Customers will be able to distinguish certified vSphere Client Plug-ins because only certified Plug-ins will carry the “VMware-ready” logo.

Extensibility and Scalability Across Hybrid Cloud
Seamlessly extend your on-premises environment to vSphere-based public clouds, such as VMware Cloud on AWS, no matter which version of vCenter Server you are running. Large-scale management is now improved: Manage up to 2,000 hosts and 35,000 virtual machines with a single vCenter Server instance.

Centralized Control and Visibility
Administer your entire vSphere infrastructure from a single location. The HTML 5-based vSphere Client lets you manage the essential functions of vSphere from any browser, offering more responsiveness and usability than ever before. Assign users to custom roles, search vCenter Server inventory, or provision new virtual machines with the click of a button.

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https://www.qnap.com/en-uk/product/ts-h886
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