The following section provides the information you need to create and manage volumes within your SoftNAS® instance. 

Using Our Documentation

Buurst has organized its SoftNAS documentation according to task based and platform based documentation. This means you can find what you are looking for by simply selecting the subject you wish to know about, and drilling down to the appropriate location. Task based pages such as this one are organized into platforms, allowing you to narrow your focus to the content  and platform relevant to you. Content that is common across platforms is listed in All Platforms, and content specific to, or primarily focused on a given platform is organized accordingly. The product itself is designed to provide a similar experience across each platform. If there is no content specific to a given platform (VMware (on-premise), AWS or Azure) , check the All Platforms section. 

Create & Configure Volumes - shows how to create volumes using the storage pools and disk devices previously created.  Here you also see how to share them to applications and users as CIFS/SMB shares and/or NFS exports or iSCSI block devices.  This also covers how to provision the volumes as well as performing storage optimization.

Managing Snapshots - provides an overview of managing volume Snapshots which includes looking at the management grid, how to manually create or delete a Snapshot along with creating a Snapclone from a Snapshot that can be mounted as a usable volume.