Note:SoftNAS® UltraFast™ is a part of our legacy SoftNAS Platinum offering. It will not be visible in versions above 4.4.1 of our SoftNAS product, and is included here for legacy purposes.
SoftNAS® UltraFast™ uses UDP and TCP/IP to transfer data between two SoftNAS instances. It provides a high speed tunnel between two nodes, regardless of geographical distance. By implementing UltraFast™ endpoints on each separate node, itprovides an on-ramp to accelerate data through the tunnel to the other node, and an offramp to facilitate data out of the tunnel, optimizing speed on both ends.
One instance serves as the “Source” instance and the other is the “Target” instance. The Source instance is responsible for connecting to the Target instance, but both the Source and Target instance are able to send data to each other using the UltraFast Storage Accelerator. The following network ports must be open for UltraFast to be able to function:
On the source instance (Outgoing):
TCP Port (Service) | Protocol |
8888 | UDP (UltraFast™) |
8888 | TCP(UltraFast™speedtest, optional) |
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Note: The source can be behind a NAT masquerading router. When the NAT translation occurs, the responses will be delivered to the public IP address of the source instance.
On the second instance (Incoming/Receiving):
TCP Port (Service) | Protocol |
8888 | UDP (UltraFast™) |
8888 | TCP(UltraFast™speedtest, optional) |
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For Amazon EC2 Target instances, configure a security group that allows for incoming TCP/443, UDP/8888, and TCP/8888 from the public IP address of the Source instance. For Amazon EC2 Source instances, configure a security group that allows for incoming TCP/8888 from the public IP address of the Target instance.
Firewalls, Gateway and Router Configuration
Firewall, Gateway and Router configuration is beyond the scope of this guide, simply due to the number of different solutions available. Vendor documentation should provide you the information needed to configure your on-premise instances to send and receive data with UltraFast™ . If you are not receiving the expected throughput, there could be configuration issues with internet gateways, routers or firewalls.
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