《40_Online RAID Capacity Expansion RAID Level Migration》.docx

Online RAID Level Migration RAID Capacity Expansion No server downtime when you need to expand or migrate your RAID volumes Contents  HYPERLINK /i/en/trade_teach/con_show.php?op=showonecid=40 \l a Online RAID Level Migration  HYPERLINK /i/en/trade_teach/con_show.php?op=showonecid=40 \l b Online RAID Capacity Expansion  HYPERLINK /i/en/trade_teach/con_show.php?op=showonecid=40 \l c Use Online RAID Level Migration and RAID Capacity Expansion together ? The Challenge of Modern Business The biggest challenge facing the modern business today is to select and set up a truly reliable network-attached storage server to save and share important data securely and to increase the work efficiency of different departments. Meanwhile, it is also important to set up a reliable backup policy to reduce the risk of data loss. QNAP Turbo NAS series provide a high performance data center and a real low TCO (total cost of ownership) solution for modern business. In addition to the complete specification, easy-to-use applications, QNAP Turbo NAS series offer innovative and dominant features: Hot-swap hard drive design with Online RAID Capacity Expansion and Online RAID Level Migration. In the past, only few corporate have budgets for the advanced functions. QNAP has successfully implemented these powerful features and designed more convenient operation procedure to enable business users to enjoy these functions in simpler steps. This application note demonstrates different scenarios (take NAS user Jeffrey for example) and the steps to use the powerful Online RAID Capacity Expansion and Online RAID Level Migration, and how the user benefits from the powerful expansion function. Lets get started! ? Online RAID Level Migration Case scenario During the initial setup of TS-879 Pro, Jeffrey invested two 160GB hard drive and configured it as RAID 1 Disk mode. The TS-879 Pro is used as a file server for data sharing among the department. After a half year, more and more important data