Virtualization Station

Virtualization Station

Run multiple virtual machines on NAS and appliances

Virtualization Station is a fast and reliable hypervisor on QNAP NAS and appliances. You can run multiple virtual machines on Virtualization Station to meet versatile virtualization needs and to benefit from cost savings and advanced features.

What is Virtualization Station?

Virtualization Station is a powerful hypervisor on your QNAP appliances that allows you to build a cost-effective virtualization environment. Virtualization Station supports many operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and QuTScloud. Based on available system resources, you can set up and run several virtual machines. It also supports many resource management and acceleration functions, providing an affordable virtualization platform with superb performance.

Learn More: QuTScloud for Private Cloud

Virtualization Station supports many operating systems

On your QNAP NAS and appliances, you can run multiple virtual machines with Windows, Linux, and QuTScloud operating systems. You can also download and instantly use virtual appliances from VM Marketplace.

Learn More: List of Supported Operating Systems

Flexibly manage resources to increase virtual machine usability

Several resource allocation settings are available within Virtualization Station. Use them as needed to keep virtual machines running at optimal efficiency and reliability.

Live Migration

Move your virtual machines between QNAP NAS - even when they are running. It is useful for load balancing, as well as migrating VMs to a secondary NAS before servicing the primary NAS.
Dynamic Memory Allocation

With Memory Ballooning, Virtualization Station will request that VMs release memory resources when the overall memory usage is high. These resources can then be reassigned to other VMs and/or the hypervisor to provide performance improvements.
Memory Sharing

Kernel Same-page Merging (KSM) is a memory deduplication feature that allows different VMs to share the same memory page, enhancing overall memory utilization.
CPU Hot Add

CPU Hot Add allows users to dynamically add CPU resources to active VMs, instantly boosting VM performance and providing improved service quality and user experiences.

Improve virtual machine performance with hardware acceleration

Select QNAP NAS and appliances support passing through hardware resources to virtual machines. This can greatly strengthen the performance and capabilities of the VM.

PCIe Card Passthrough

Boost VM performance and enable more applications by passing through PCIe cards.
Check for compatible NAS PCIe slots
SR-IOV

Single-Root Input/Output Virtualization (SR-IOV) improves the network performance of virtual machines.
Intel® QAT

Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) enhances the security and compression performance of your virtual machines.

Secure your virtual machines with ease

Virtualization Station offers several disaster recovery tools to protect against data loss. Options include local/remote backups, one-time/scheduled tasks, and more.

VM Backup

Local (internal and external)/remote; one-time/scheduled
VM Snapshot

Local; one-time/scheduled
VM Clone

Local; one-time

Minimize VM downtime with High Availability (HA)

Initiate High Availability for a VM to protect virtualized services and applications from downtime. If the primary NAS hosting your VM fails, the secondary NAS automatically activates the VM to keep services and applications running.

Check System Configuration Guide

For optimal performance, a physical connection is recommended for the Availability Link between the primary and secondary NAS

Run QuTScloud on Virtualization Station for a multitenant QNAP NAS

QuTScloud is a virtual NAS appliance based on QNAP’s QTS operating system. Benefits of QuTScloud include resource elasticity, budget flexibility, and many more. Enterprises and workgroups can set up QuTScloud as virtual machines in existing on-premises data centers. Deploy QuTScloud now with Virtualization Station to turn a physical NAS appliance into a multitenant environment. It is cost-saving, space-saving, and flexible!

Learn More: QuTScloud for Private Cloud

Virtualization Station can help in many ways

Using virtual machines delivers many benefits to IT professionals and developers, including cost savings, efficiency improvements, better eco-friendliness, and many more.

Server Virtualization

Replace legacy hardware, or merge servers with virtual machines on a single QNAP appliance. This reduces cost and improves management efficiency.
Software Testing and Debugging

Set up VMs with different operating systems and configurations for software testing/debugging.
Website Compatibility Testing

Download free Microsoft Windows VMs of various browser versions for compatibility testing of websites.
No Licensing Costs

Virtualization Station is free with no extra cost. It is ideal for budget-conscious users as an alternative to (or to replace) expensive advanced hypervisors.
QvPC: Use NAS and appliance like a PC

The QvPC technology allows you to use your QNAP NAS just like a PC by connecting a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. You can also directly operate your NAS with HybridDesk Station.
Audio output support

You can enable audio output in VMs by adding an audio device to Virtualization Station.