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SoftNAS® System Requirements
Listed below is a table to assist with setup decisions during the configuration required to accomplish various tasks and goals.
Recommended | Configuration Note | |||
Compute |
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Small Workloads | D8v3 | Limited performance and functions. Advanced capabilities such as SnapReplicate and SNAP HATM are not available. | ||
Medium Workloads | D16v3 | |||
Heavier Workloads | D32v3 | |||
Memory | ||||
Base RAM - Light | 16 GB | Minimum recommended for advanced features such as SnapReplicate and SNAP HATM | ||
Base RAM - Medium | 32 GB | Premium or Standard storage | ||
Base RAM - Heavier | 114 GB | Local SSD, large-scale use with increased RAM caching, premium or standard storage | ||
Additional RAM | 16GB, plus 1 GB per 1 TB of deduplicated storage. | Recommended for best performance | ||
e.g.: 50 TB deduplicated storage = 50 additional GB for deduplication tables for best performance. | ||||
Storage | ||||
Boot Disk | 256 GB Hard disk for Linux boot and system disk (included) | |||
Data Disk - General | Standard Azure Data Disks (DS Standard Series) | |||
High IOPS | Azure Premium Storage (DSv2 Standard Series) | |||
RAID 10 | Recommended for I/O-intensive applications and databases | |||
RAID 5/6 | Recommended for best space utilization (tradeoff: slower write performance) | |||
Network | ||||
Up to 120 MB/sec - 1GbE | Less overhead cost | |||
500+ MB/sec - 10 GbE | Better performance (requires more resources) | Consider MTU 4000 configuration for optimal performance | ||
SoftNAS® System Capacities
Listed below is a table representing the capabilities of the SoftNAS® for Microsoft Azure.
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