Virtualization Station
This was a pretty interesting feature that I was not aware of.. I started thinking about all of the cool things I could do with it.. Maybe setup a PBX system for my home. Or maybe… Because you can attach a GPU to a VM, you can use the VM to do Steam Streaming. The possibilities are endless.
When you first click the Virtualization Station it goes through a quick setup.
I have no VM’s right now.
Create VM gives you some AWS’ish Sizes, also a create custom VM
Quick VM Creation with Windows 8.1, and it allows you to pull up the console.
It has a html5 Web base console built in, which makes it super simple to manage, and maintain your VM’s
Summary overview of Virtualization Station. I believe this is just the starting of some cool stuff you can do.. You also have the ability to export these images to OVA format, and bring them anywhere. So if you want to build images and sell them or something, this gives you a good way of doing it. You also have the ability to attach these VM’s to a HDMI port.
Fantastic article! You really helped me in deciding to buy this QNAP model. Do you believe that the I3 processor model can also be upgraded to an I7 processor? Once again, thanks for the great information.
Unless they lock down bios, which I highly doubt, and the heat sink is the same size as the one that I showed here, I do not see why it would not work. Goal is to stay within a 65w envelope. I am planning on doing a i7-6700 to help with Plex transcoding. I also went with the lower end i5, because of the 450w power supply, which I wanted to play around with GPGPU in a VM to see if I can do pretty good with Steam streaming. None the less, not regrets with the purchase.
Just an oddball question: Do you happen to know who manufactures the mainboard?
It appears to be a very customized board for this specific system.. I do not remember seeing any identifying marks on the mainboard. They probably design, and have a company build these for them.
Hello,
Is it possible to upgrade the PSU? If so, what dimensions of the PSU should I look for?
Thanks
I am planning on opening it up to throw a GTX 1080 in there, when I do so, I will see if I can cross reference the PSU to something standard. It would be interesting to see if these are upgradable to the higher wattage power supplies from the none 450w power supply units.
Thanks,
Hi Michael,
my choice is balancing between TVS-882 with an manual CPU and RAM upgrade and 1282-450 with CPU and RAM upgrade. Iwill set my final choice on last model only if I can add GTX1080 card.
So please tell me more about your “pilote”.
If this models were NVMe compatible instead of previous standard M.2-SATA for embedded SSD (M.2), I will definitively buy one of this model and fill it with Samsung 960 PRO.
Perhaps next gen will do it?
Hey Frederic,
It is nice having the 2.5″ bays that you can use for caching or just some SSD storage. I’ve got my volume setup with SSD’s for my Virtual Machines and stuff which is nice to have VM’s running a bit quicker. I am unsure if the 882 came with a larger power supply for a graphics card, but I am sure you can get creative and run external power if needed.
I will be trying out the GTX1080 here in a few days, and will update the article once I do so with pictures.
I am with you on the NVMe… These things should have been NVMe compatable for ultimate speed. But honestly if you had the much faster speed of 2GByte/sec or higher, I am not sure you could even use that speed with 10G connectivity as it maxes out @ 1250MByte/sec or so. You really want 40G connectivity to even come close to pushing NVMe.
QNAP seems to be on the ball with newer technologies. I think some of their enterprise solutions are offering NVMe M.2.
Thanks,
Michael
Did you have any luck running the Nvidia Gpu in your QNap NAS? From what I have read, they only say that AMD are supported, but with the crypto coin mining crazy, they are hard to find.
Thanks;
-Rob
Hey Rob,
It would not accept the GTX 1080. It was just about 1 inch too long. So you will want to stick with some of the shorter length cards.
Thanks,
Michael
Hi, soon the 1080 Ti mini itx from zotac will be avaliable and is only 21cm long. Will you try it?
That’s the conf I’m preparing but I want to know if 450W is enough for 1080ti as long as 1080ti uses 250W while 1080 uses 230W.
I will be trying it.
Thanks,
Michael
Did it work out with 1080t???. Considering 1070 at 200w or 1060 at 150w
I was unable to get a GTX 1080Ti normal length to run in there. I believe that you can get one of the Zotac 1080Ti Minis in there. or a 1060 or such.
Thanks,
I currently own the TVS-882T NAS and I have successfully installed an Nvidia GTX-1060 GPU. I very much doubt that the PSU is powerful enough for the 1080 Ti, but you can get a Corsair 600W PSU with the same dimensions as the 450W PSU, which is shipped with the NAS
You are correct. 1080Ti using 250w of energy will probably not work very well with only a 450w power supply. However, It would be interesting to see if it would work. How much wattage is actually being used to power the system.
Would be interesting to see how much wattage the system actually uses after powering up all of the hard drives, and everything. Could use an aux power supply just to power the video card as well.
Thanks,
Hi All,
I’ve recently come across this article and it’s been great. On the back of this I was recently thinking about upgrading my QNAP TVS-1282T-I5 16GB. So I went ahead and purchased 64GB of DDR 2400 ram which installed absolutely fine and booted as expected.
I then purchased an I7-7700 processor to replace the existing I5-6500 installed but In doing so, this never seem to allow the QNAP to boot successfully freezing at “Hardware Utilisation”. Having raised an support call with QNAP, they came back with the below reply…
“Dear Leyon
Actually, the design of the motherboard is different for I5 and I7 processor. That’s the reason when you replace the I7 processor, NAS fails to boot up.
Updating of the BIOS cannot fix this issue. This is a design limitation. We will recommend to replace the processor in the NAS. Thanks for understanding.”
So essentially that would elude to the motherboard of a TVS-1282T-I5 being different from that of a TVS-1282T-I7????
So my question is, has anyone else here successfully upgrade their QNAP to an I7 without an issue or is this “by design” genuine? It does make you wonder why there would be such a limitation like this… Michael, did you ever get around to upgrading your Nas to the Intel I7 6700??
Would be great to hear your feedback.
Thanks
I was able to update my TVS-1282-i5-16G-450W from the i5-6500 to the Core i7-6700k with no issues at all. I haven’t tried past the 6700k, but I did try 7700T and it did not work. I think that it will need a bios upgrade to use the 7xxx series stuff. The Core i7-6700K does work perfectly tho, and does see 4 Cores, 8 Threads.
Thanks,
Michael
Hi Michael,
did you experience heat problems going from a 65W CPU to a 91W CPU?
Kind regards,
Boris
No heat problems that cause any problems.. I am sure temperatures have risen, but not enough to cause problems, or throttling. Also fans are not going crazy high speed. So thats positive.