Step-through-step configuration of ZFS in QNAP QuTS hero

 If you are looking for a NAS server with a file organization that provides the best data integrity, QNAP with the QuTS hero operating system is one of the best options. This heroic new QuTS operating system is exactly the same as the popular QTS, which the manufacturer uses in the vast majority of NAS, but it has a distinctive feature: it uses the ZFS file organization, one of the most advanced that we can find. today. ... Would you like to learn how to configure ZFS on a QNAP NAS server step by step using QuTS protagonist?

What is the QNAP QuTS Protagonist operating system?

QNAP's effective systems for its NAS servers are QTS and QuTS hero, both based on the Linux operating the system, but there is a big difference between the two. In QTS, we will have an EXT4 file system to store all the information, in addition, we can create various types of RAID, configure SSD cache acceleration, and even Qtier for tiered storage. In QuTS hero, we will have a ZFS file system to store all the information with the highest possible integrity, in addition, we will be able to create several RAIDZs, we will also have the ability to configure the SSD cache to speed up the reading and writing speed of ZFS records. So the hero of QuTS is still the same old QTS operating system, but now the datastore uses the ZFS file system instead of EXT4 with everything related to protecting data integrity.

 

QNAP makes different models that are compatible with QTS or QTS hero, but not both at the same time. However, computers like the TS-473A allow a particular operating system to be installed in the operating system installation wizard, so we can choose between QTS or QuTS hero. We must note that the QuTS Hero operating system requires more RAM because the ZFS file system consumes more RAM for better performance, and if you do not have 16GB of RAM or extra, you will not be able to activate the deduplication function. so you should consider this when buying a NAS.

 

In the following picture, you can realize the QNAP TS-473A NAS server modernized to the latest version of QTS, which agrees on us to change the operating system to QuTS hero.

Currently, there are very few NAS servers are compatible with both operating systems, we must remember that the head waitresses' RAM must be ECC and have at least 8GB or 16GB of RAM for everything to work properly, which is why high-end NAS servers introduce this system is operational. The system will not be available.

Once we know what the QuTS Hero operating system is and all that it entails, we will do an initial setup.

QuTS Hero initial setup

The first thing we must do to install QuTS hero is to click on the QuTS hero button found in the previous menu. The conformation wizard will tell us if we are sure that we will migrate to another operating system and that all data on all disks will be deleted, this is absolutely imperative if we are going to change from one operating system to another. If you have data on QTS, you will need to take an external backup.

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