How to use virtual disk on your QNAP NAS

“Virtual Disk Drive (VDD) adds flexibility to storage expansion along with ease of management”

Contents

• Create a virtual disk
• Use Virtual Disk on Your QNAP NAS

The unique “Virtual Disk Drive” adds flexibility to expand the capacity of NAS. By using the built-in iSCSI initiator, the NAS can connect to other iSCSI targets on the network and turn them into virtual disks, which become multiple single volumes on the NAS. Up to 8 virtual disks can be stacked. The NAS serves as the storage stack chaining master. The user only needs to connect to this single entry (QNAP NAS) and is able to reach and use all the iSCSI target storages on the network. This demonstration will show you how to use the virtual disk to expand your storage. Let’s get started!

Create a virtual disk

Click ‘Add Virtual Disk’ in the Virtual Disk page.

Follow the 4 steps to connect to an iSCSI target on a remote server.

• Enter the target server IP address (the Server which has iSCSI target on it)
• Click “GET REMOTE DISK” to get the iSCSI target list
• Select the iSCSI target in the Remote Disk Device that you wish to use as the virtual disk
• Click “APPLY”

If this is the first time when you are connecting to the virtual disk (iSCSI target), you will have to format it before it can be mounted to the NAS

When the formatting has finished, the Status will become “Ready” and you are now able to use it.

Use Virtual Disk on Your QNAP NAS

Now you can create the share folders on the virtual disk, simply select the VirtualDiskx ( x= 1 to 8, the max. virtual disk number is 8) in the Disk Volume dropdown list when creating a new share folder.

There you go! The share folder on the virtual disk has been created successfully and is ready to be used.