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.

Configuring UltraFast™ to speed up your network can contribute greatly to your organization's success, but the solution is far from complete if you cannot choose when to leverage your full bandwidth potential for a given task/scenario. UltraFast™ not only offers the best in bandwidth and throughput optimization but also allows your organization to decide when to apply optimum throughput and when to place limitations. With a fully configurable schedule, and the ability to set bandwidth limitations, UltraFast™ allows you to meet your organizations specific requirements with ease.

Creating Bandwidth Throttling Schedules

To set up scheduled bandwidth throttling, open the UltraFast™ Storage Accelerator tab from the Storage Administration panel.

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The remaining hours of the day or week, for which no bandwidth limit is set, will default to the Maximum Bandwidth setting. 

Changing Time Zone

By default, the time zone upon which the schedules are based will be set to CDT (or UDT - 5). If you need to change the time zone of your instance, you can do so by following these steps:

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