As a high-performance and cost-effective NAS solution designed for enterprises, the 2U rackmount TS-1886XU-RP provides 12 3.5-inch drive-bays and 6 SSD dedicated slots. Additionally, powered by an Intel® Xeon® D processor with up to 128 GB DDR4 Error Correcting Code (ECC) memory, the TS-1886XU-RP delivers server-grade performance with dependable reliability. The pre-installed dual-port 10GbE SFP+ network card not only empowers bandwidth-demanding applications but also supports RDMA/RoCE to improve performance and lower CPU consumption. Moreover, the scalable TS-1886XU-RP satisfies growing data storage needs, along with advanced business-ready features for streamlined data and IT management, including SSD over-provisioning, comprehensive virtualization support, software-defined networking and virtual switch, QuDedup source-based data deduplication, elastic cloud storage gateway services, and more.
Cost-effective NAS solution with powerful Intel® Xeon® D processor
The TS-1886XU-RP features an Intel® Xeon® D-1600 series processor, with up to 128 GB DDR4 ECC memory, and a redundant power supply, delivering server-grade performance and dependable reliability for rugged enterprise IT environments as a cost-efficient NAS solution. By connecting multiple QNAP expansion enclosures or enabling Virtual JBOD (VJBOD) to leverage other QNAP NAS storage, the storage capacity of the TS-1886XU-RP can be easily expanded to satisfy fast-growing data and budget flexibility.
ECC memory forestalls data corruption to assure reliability
The TS-1886XU-RP uses ECC memory that can detect and correct single-bit memory errors as they occur to prevent downtime and data loss, which is essential for always-on, mission-critical, server-grade applications. The TS-1886XU-RP supports dual-channel DDR4 memory in four Long-DIMM slots. When using paired memory modules, the TS-1886XU-RP can leverage the power of dual-channel architecture to boost performance. You can also customize memory configuration (supports up to 128 GB RAM) of the TS-1886XU-RP for greater performance to tackle dynamically-changing workloads, such as virtualization.
HDD + SSD hybrid structure to optimize storage performance and utilization
The TS-1886XU-RP features outstanding hardware and expandable architecture, enabling optimum performance and flexibility to satisfy business needs in various applications.
SSD caching and auto-tiering enable 24/7 optimized storage efficiency
While SSD prices have dropped significantly, and SSD capacity and performance have been greatly optimized, organizations can easily take advantage of SSD strengths. With the native six 2.5-inch SSD slots and QNAP’s SSD-aware features, the TS-1886XU-RP can maximize performance with high cost-effectiveness.
Dual 10GbE connectivity optimizes high-speed data transfer and supports RDMA/RoCE
The TS-1886XU-RP comes with a pre-installed dual-port 10GbE SFP+ Smart NIC to improve bandwidth-demanding data center and virtualization applications. The 10GbE Smart NIC uses Broadcom BCM57412 NetXtreme®-E network controller that supports RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE and RoCEv2), allowing data to bypass general network drivers, the socket layer, and directly enter ESXi server and storage memory buffer. RoCE technology can improve NAS performance while lowering CPU consumption of applications that use an Ethernet network, ideal for low-latency and high-speed large data transferring.
Abundant I/O capability with PCIe expansion
The TS-1886XU-RP features four PCIe Gen3 x4 slots (one slot pre-installed with a dual-port 10GbE expansion card) that allow for various expansion cards for expanding application potential.
All-in-one server to host virtual machines and containers
Regardless of your virtualization needs, you can count on Virtualization Station and Container Station for complete virtualization support. You can use Network & Virtual Switch to allocate adequate physical network resources to virtual machines, containers, and the NAS to simplify network deployment.
Virtualization Station
Run multiple Windows®, Linux®, UNIX®, and Android™ virtual machines and access them via a web browser or Virtual Network Computing (VNC). Businesses can run virtualized server applications on a single NAS without the need for additional physical servers.
Container Station
Experience LXC and Docker® lightweight virtualization technologies, download apps from the built-in Docker Hub Registry®, import and export containers, and create abundant microservices.
Block-based iSCSI LUN: Ideal choice for virtualization storage
The TS-1886XU-RP supports block-based iSCSI LUN and is compatible for VMware®, Citrix®, Microsoft® Hyper-V®, and Windows Server® 2019 virtualization environments to provide a high-performance and affordable storage solution. The TS-1886XU-RP also supports VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX to increase performance by offloading server loading for ESXi server and Hyper-V respectively, and supporting QNAP vSphere Client plug-in with enhanced operational efficiency and management in virtualization applications.
Move business data to the cloud flexibly and economically
The TS-1886XU-RP perfectly integrates NAS with mainstream cloud services. By deploying cloud storage gateways and enabling local caching on the NAS, you can seamlessly use the cloud for storage, backup, and data recovery with low-latency access, providing an innovative hybrid cloud experience.
HybridMount file-based cloud gateway
Flexibly expand your storage capacity by connecting to cloud storage. You can leverage QTS apps to manage and edit your cloud files or multimedia files. HybridMount is ideal for file server online collaboration and file-level data analysis.
VJBOD cloud block-based cloud gateway
VJBOD Cloud supports mounting object cloud storage as a block-based volume or LUN on a NAS. The block-based data transmission uploads random data and large files to the cloud in blocks, and only transmits block-based volume or LUN changes such as addition, modification, or deletion. This is ideal for enterprise-level applications with large file transfer requirements, such as databases, VM volumes, and videos.
Complete backup planning
The TS-1886XU-RP provides a reliable, flexible backup and disaster recovery solution to assist organizations in routine backup jobs cost-efficiently and with high productivity.
HBS
Consolidates backup, restoration and synchronization functions (using RTRR, Rsync, FTP, CIFS/SMB) for easily transferring data to local, remote and cloud storage spaces as a comprehensive data storage and disaster recovery plan.
Snapshots for Volume & LUN
Snapshots are essential for NAS data protection, and their block-level feature makes it a dependable data protection method in the face of growing ransomware threats. The TS-1886XU-RP supports up to 256 snapshots per volume/LUN, and up to 1,024 snapshots per NAS.
VM backup
The TS-1886XU-RP is perfect for backing up virtual machines, with its high performance, huge storage capacities, integrated virtualization solutions, and snapshot support that records system status any time.
Windows® and Mac® backup
Use the license-free QNAP NetBak Replicator utility to back up and restore files from Windows® computers. Apple’s Time Machine® is supported for backing up Mac® computers.
QuDedup source-based deduplication reinforces your backup plan with greater efficiency
QuDedup technology reduces backup data size and speeds up future backup tasks. This is also beneficial for accelerating multi-version backups for greater protection against data loss.
First backup – save storage
Eliminates redundant data at the source to reduce the backup data size by up to 75% for greater storage savings.
Second backup – save time
The deduplicated data makes following backup tasks faster and allows complete multiple backup versions. Multiple backup versions can significantly reduce the risks of data loss.
Cloud backup – save time and storage
TCP BBR algorithm for congestion control greatly improves Internet data transfer speeds, so backing up NAS-based files to the cloud becomes much more efficient.
Up to 128 monitoring channels in QVR Pro for well-rounded security surveillance
The TS-1886XU-RP supports QVR Pro surveillance solution with 8 license-free channels for surveillance monitoring, which can be expanded up to 128 channels* with additional channel license purchase for more extensive security deployment. QVR Pro supports over 5,000 IP cameras, including all standard fisheye cameras available on the market. There are more advanced features for fully unleashing the potential of fisheye cameras: allowing a single fisheye camera’s image to be simultaneously viewed in nine channels from different angles, and cross-platform hardware-accelerated decoding for fisheye camera images. QVR Pro ensures higher surveillance performance for greater security while providing deployment flexibility and budget-savings.
Build an affordable Fibre Channel SAN environment
Common Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SAN) devices are often expensive. Now you have more budget-friendly options for easily adding your NAS to a SAN environment. After installing a Marvell®, ATTO® or QNAP Fibre Channel card in the TS-1886XU-RP, you can set a Fibre Channel Target using the iSCSI & Fibre Channel app, and leverage many QNAP NAS benefits including snapshot protection, Qtier™ tiering storage, SSD cache acceleration and more. In addition, the LUN Masking and Port Binding features provide an additional layer of data security.
More productivity applications
Notification Center
Consolidates all QTS system events, alerts, and notifications for smooth and easy NAS management, keeping you informed of your NAS status at all times.
Security Counselor
A NAS security portal for checking weaknesses and offer recommendations for enhancing NAS security. It also integrates anti-virus and anti-malware scanning software.
Qsirch
QNAP’s powerful, Google-like search tool for quickly finding specific images, music, videos, documents, and emails by keywords, color, and more search conditions.
Boxafe
Allows you to backup or sync files, emails, calendars and contacts from Google™ G Suite and Microsoft® Office 365® into the NAS to safeguard enterprise cloud data.
Browser Station
Enable remote access through NAS browsers for accessing local LAN resources without requiring complex VPN settings.
Qmiix
An Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solution that enables you to connect apps and devices with QNAP NAS for automating daily tasks for greater productivity.
