QSAN XCubeDAS XD5300 series is fully compatible with all major 12Gb/s SAS host bus adaptors, RAID cards, servers, and operating systems, including Windows Server 2008/2012, Storage Spaces, RHEL/-SuSE/Linux, Solaris, VMware, Citrix, and Hyper-V. The XD5300 series accomplished complete tests and met the requirements of VMware, Citrix, and Hyper-V virtualization environment storage expansion. With the native ability of 12Gb/s SAS and QSAN’s performance optimization, the XD5300 series is both efficient and smooth for high-definition media editing, high performance computing applications, massive data archiving/backup, performance-demanding applications, real time clustering, expansion to VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN Software Defined Storage), and online expansion to public or private cloud storage servers.