Tomas Svoboda QNAP is moving its ZFS systemém QuTS hero 6, equipped with a self-regeneration function, canThe latest phase – Public Beta 3 (h6.0.0.3397, build 20260206) was recently released. Consider it a taste of where the platform will go in terms of service availability, security, and management. But please note that since this is a beta, ideally test the software on a different device.ém NAS or outside critical production.
What QuTS hero 6 pit is raining
The biggest changeon dutyé řady h6.0 is a High Availability Manager – QNAPit moves QuTS hero bldown to the "server" realitywhere high availability is key. In practice, two NAS will buildte active-passive HA cluster: activeThe active node serves data and services, passive knot prIt continuously synchronizes its status and is ready to take over the role. As soon as a problem occurséhim (class)eba hardwareon thedefect, infailure or scheduled restart), systemém oneautomatically switch traffic to the passive node, so that the outage is significantly shorter or almost imperceptible to users on the network. In addition, QuTS hero 6 also brings a number of graphical user interface (GUI) adjustments that increase system clarity and make daily NAS management more enjoyable.
This solution makes sense especially where the NAS acts as a central storage for file sharing, iSCSI or production data and workanother shutdown is not possibleipadinto consideration. Compared to the more expensivem enterprise Storage with dual-controller architecture is a more practical way: you can achieve high availabilityskate "just" using two compatible QNAP NAS, without having to change the entire infrastructure. QNAP also uvIt is expected that in h6.0 most services will be ready for HA deployment and compatibility will gradually expand.
The security part is aiming on ransomware and compliance. QuTS hero 6 pdrives immutable snapshots (snapshots)Lockedé against modification/deletion for a specified period of time) and KMIP support for centralized management of encryptionch klThe login appears to ensuremethods like FIDO2 / passkeys and login option to USřes QNAP ID. QNAP fromIt also mentions ACL 2.0 for faster work with permissions in large directories, simpler SAN management thanks to Fibre Channel NPIV, and support for Qtier (automatic data positioning) directly in QuTS hero.
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The novelty is soé On-Prem LLM in Qsirch. IntelligentNAS search now supports RAG Search, whiché can connect locally deployedé open-source languagesé models (such as DeepSeek, Gemma, Phi or Mistral) with the content of your files on the NAS – on models prepared for GPU acceleration. In practice, this means thate Qsirch dockcan quickly analyze and summarize local documents directly on your premises, without sending data to cloudu. This gives you full control over your data and at the same time lower latency, thereforethat everything is processed locally.
What's new in Public Beta 3
Beta 3 is mainly about dotamarriage detailIf you are using your NAS as a Domain Controller, you can now set the domain functional leveléup to na Windows Server 2016. Pwhen setting up shared system foldersém checks the ACL version and disallows pouto use a configuration that would exceed the number limithere ACL fromUpdate notifications have been improved on the desktop – App The center will show a badge with the number of updates and for applications it will offer "guided update"so you don't miss any updates.
In the SAN part, QNAP has improved FC NPIV health checks and error behavior. When NPIV creation fails or there is a connectivity problem, the port will go offline and the interface will clearly show the service status. If a storage pool falls into an error state, only LUN unmapping operations are now allowed (other actions are blocked for stability). Pool creation time is reduced by adjusting the logic of the "Optimize performance" option, and a short wizard has been added to Storage Manager to quickly explain the news.
Compatibility and installation
You can install the beta version of QuTS hero 6 on the models listed below:
- TS-h2490FU/TS-h1090FU
- TS-h1290FX
- TDS-h2489FU/ TDS-h2489FU R2
- TS-h3088XU-RP
- TVS-h1288X/TVS-h1688X
- TS-h1886XU-RP/TS-1886XU-RP/TS-h1886XU-RP R2
- TS-h686/TS-h886
- TNS-h1083X,TNS-h1083X (A Side),TNS-h1083X (B Side)
- TS-883XU/TS-883XU-RP/TS-1283XU-RP/S-1683XU-RP/TS-983XU/TS-983XU-RP/TS-2483XU-RP/TS-h1283XU-RP/TS-h2483XU-RP/TS-h1683XU-RP
- TS-h977XU-RP/TS-h1277XU-RP/TS-h1677XU-RP/TS-h2477XU-RP
- TS-h1277AXU-RP/TS-h1677AXU-RP/TS-h2477AXU-RP/TS-h3077AFU
- TVS-h1675U-RP/TVS-h1275U-RP/TVS-h875U-RP/TVS-h875U
- TVS-675
- TVS-h474/TVS-h674/TVS-h874/TVS-h874X/TVS-h674T/TVS-h874T
- TBS-h574TX
- TS-873AU/TS-873AU-RP/TS-1273AU-RP/TS-1673AU-RP/TS-873AeU/TS-873AeU-RP
- TS-h973AX/TS-473A/TS-673A/TS-873A
- TVS-672X/TVS872X/TVS-672N/TVS-872N/TVS-472XT/TVS-672XT/TVS-872XT
- TS-1655/TS-855X
- TS-855eU/TS-855eU-RP/TS-h1655XeU-RP
- TS-253E/TS-453E
- HS-264/TBS-464/TS-364/TS-464/TS-664/TS-264/TS-464C2
- TS-466C
- TS-464U/TS-464U-RP/TS-1264U-RP/TS-464eU/TS-864eU/TS-864eU-RP
- TS-i410X/TS-410E
- TS-h765eU
- TS-h1277AFX
- Qu805/Qu605/Qu405
- TVS-AIh1688ATX
If already QuTS hero pouyou live, standhnDownload the firmware for your model from QNAP Download Center and do ithere you goinstallation in the NAS interface (Control Panel) panels → systém → Firmware Update → Manual Installation), select the unzipped firmware file and confirm the update. When switching from QTS to QuTS hero, you must expect complete data deletion, as both systems use different file systems (ext4 and ZFS). Therefore, we strongly recommend that you have all data safely backed up to another storage before changing the NAS system.
Beware of beta restrictions: support for some expansion cards (selected Mustang and QM2 models) ends in h6.0 and some applications are temporarily unavailable. QNAP also lists applications that are no longer supported in h6.0 (e.g. IDrive, JRE, Python/Python3, QButton or Skype), so check compatibility in before testing. App center.
QuTS hero 6 is still in public beta, but it is already clear that QNAP is aiming for a significantly more “mature” deployment – whether it is higher availability thanks to the High Availability Manager, or new options for working with data and searching such as RAG Search directly on the NAS. If you want to be among the first to try out the new features, we recommend installing the beta mainly in a test environment or on a secondary unit and checking the compatibility of the model and applications in advance. Once QuTS hero 6 approaches the final version, it could be one of the biggest platform updates in recent years – and above all a pleasant shift for anyone who wants to have data under control, quickly available and minimeme of blackouts.
