BUILD YOUR POWERFUL HOME LAB WITH QNAP

QNAP provides extensive features and functionality you need to build a powerul home lab environment.

Why QNAP

  • Cross-Platform

    Quickly transfer and share files across devices without compatibility constraints, regardless of the operating system.

  • 10GbE Ready

    QNAP offers a wide range of affordable and reliable 10GbE-ready NAS and network switches for home labs.

  • Securely Access Your Data

    Always keep your data secure. QNAP NAS supports several secure networking protocols such as FTPS, HTTPS, SSH/SFTP.

  • Unparallelled Performance

    Accelerate your performance with a wide range of processors, RAM, and connectivity options, as well as SSD support for caching and tiering.

  • Protect Your Digital Assets

    Safeguard your data with added redundancy for all of your files with RAID protection. QNAP NAS supports all standard RAID configurations.

  • Virtualization Ready

    QNAP NAS makes virtualization easy. Easily run multiple VM’s with QNAP’s powerful Virtualization Station. Additionally, QNAP NAS is VMware® vSphere™, Microsoft® Hyper-V®, and Citrix® XenServer™ Certified.

Your Entire Digital Library on Any Device

Empower your Home Media Hub with QNAP NAS. Use Video Station and Music Station to play all of your content, and access it anywhere. When you want to watch your movies, Qmedia for Roku and AppleTV makes it easy . Even stream directly to your Chromecast, Amazon FireTV, Xbox, and PlayStation. Plex Media Server is fully supported to bring you an even more robust Home Media Experience. Leverage QNAP’s expansive storage capacity to build a home for all your content.

QNAP NAS Powering Your Smart Home

Power your Smart Home using QNAP, Alexa, and IFTTT, which allows users to link various Internet-connected devices/services to create simple but powerful cross-app workflows. QNAP applets for IFTTT include automatically backing up your FB or IG photos on your NAS after posting, saving all your Tweets to text on your NAS, backing up your Dropbox files to your QNAP, and other cool applets.

  • Your True Private Cloud

    With myQNAPcloud, your NAS is now your own private cloud. Access your files anywhere, and on any device. Rather than pay monthly or yearly fees to a public cloud service, QNAP NAS gives you own your own private cloud storage. Remotely access all of the features QNAP NAS offers, including Plex, Virtualization, and more. myQNAPcloud ensures your data is private and secure, yet accessible anywhere.

  • Secure Connections with QVPN

    QVPN provides a secure way to access a network at a remote location, yet still appear local. QVPN can be used to create a VPN client that connects to a remote server or third-party provider to access content or services.Additionally, even turn your QNAP NAS into a VPN Server with WireGuard, PPTP, OpenVPN or, L2TP/IPSec services to allow connections from around the world.

Upgrade to 10GbE

Empower your home lab with next-generation network connectivity using QNAP 10GbE network solutions. Revolutionary QNAP 10GbE NAS gives you fast and robust data storage, while QNAP 10GbE network switch upgrades your network to blazing fast throughput. Even upgrade your current QNAP NAS and PC to 10G speeds with QNAP Network Expansion Cards. Offering up to 10x faster bandwidth, QNAP 10GbE network solutions give you true flexibility and improved network performance.

Powerful Virtualization

Virtual Machines on your QNAP NAS

QNAP NAS makes running multiple Virtual Machines on your NAS easy. QNAP’s Virtualization Station lets you run and manage all of your VM’s, in an easy to use interface. Clone, import, export, and take snapshots while easily allocating hardware resources. GPU-Passthrough in Virtualization Station supercharges your VM’s graphics performance. And with Vmware, Citrix, and Hyper-V Ready certification, your QNAP NAS supports nearly every virtual environment.

Host container applications

If you are curious about Docker or are a hobbyist developer, QNAP Container Station on the NAS integrates Docker®, LXD, and Kata Containers lightweight virtualization technologies, allowing you to run all kinds of self-contained applications. You can download apps from the built-in Docker Hub®, including popular and fully-configured applications, and deploy them with just one click. From smart homes to multimedia applications, you can explore your creativity and bring containerized applications to life.

How to install a Windows 11 VM on a QNAP NAS

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