[Request] Virtualization station 3 review?

[Moogle Stiltzkin]

Please higgins we need your help to re-review qnap's virtualization station 3 (newer) to replace the old article that is outdated

https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/32533-qnap-virtualization-station-reviewed

 

[sfx2000]

The basic functionality hasn't changed much - bug fixes and updates.

The big improvement was the virtual switch, which isn't exclusive to Virtualization Station - the virtual switch is a big improvement however with VM's accessing the other resources hosted on the NAS directly, and networking between VM's (and containers from Container Station) is much better...

There was a change in QTS 4.3 and Virtualization Station 3.0 that did impact snapshots and backups, and this is documented in the 4.3 release notes.

 

[Moogle Stiltzkin]

The basic functionality hasn't changed much - bug fixes and updates.

The big improvement was the virtual switch, which isn't exclusive to Virtualization Station - the virtual switch is a big improvement however with VM's accessing the other resources hosted on the NAS directly, and networking between VM's (and containers from Container Station) is much better...

There was a change in QTS 4.3 and Virtualization Station 3.0 that did impact snapshots and backups, and this is documented in the 4.3 release notes.

thx for your feedback. I also found a small intro of sorts to the newer vs 3 here

Also just saw a recent video about virtualization gpu on ryzen. qnap has a ryzen model coming out probably end of this year or early 2018 according to computex. it also like some of their models supports graphics card addon.

any thoughts on that?

 

[Mark Stone]

The basic functionality hasn't changed much - bug fixes and updates.

The big improvement was the virtual switch, which isn't exclusive to Virtualization Station - the virtual switch is a big improvement however with VM's accessing the other resources hosted on the NAS directly, and networking between VM's (and containers from Container Station) is much better...

There was a change in QTS 4.3 and Virtualization Station 3.0 that did impact snapshots and backups, and this is documented in the 4.3 release notes.

One helpful change in Virtualization station V 3 was we could open a VM console for any instance in a web browser without needing to install SSL certificate in the customers machine. I don't know if others had this problem with Virtualization 2 but we certainly did on customers machines. Its important for support because if browser access N/A and/or Qcentre n/a we have an alternate route into a NAS for service / support. (Particularly in and around firmware updates)