• Out of Space and Can Not Remove Files - Shows how to deal with your storage pool or volume running out of space.

• Setup NTPD on CentOS Linux - Shows how to make time settings persistent to support Snap HA and SnapReplication.

• Pool Migration Options for AWS - Shows methods to migrate an existing storage pool and offers the "pros" and "cons" for each of them.

• Removing Pools, Volumes, and Devices - Shows how to clean up by removing no longer needed volumes, storage pools and disk devices.

• Force Sync - Discusses using the SnapReplication "Force Sync" usage and potential side effects.

• Spectre/Meltdown CPU Vulnerability - Buurst guidance on addressing the CPU Vulnerability know as "Spectre/Meltdown".

• SoftNAS Performance on AWS - Shows how to collect useful data from the AWS CloudWatch to address issues related to using an undersized instance on AWS.

• SoftNAS Disaster Recovery Solutions -  Covers different DR setups that are available using SoftNAS that doesn't impact overall system performance.

• Virtual IP (VIP) with a SoftNAS Private HA - Provides a brief overview of how to accomplish this.

• Disable Monit Action Forcing Failover on "txg_sync" issue - Shows how to turn off Monit's ability to force a failover in a HA pair.

• Pool(s) Reconstruction With the Desired Pool Size and Geometry in an HA Pair - Shows how to reconstruct a SoftNAS pool due to sizing issues or to simply move from a S3/SmartTier pool to a Standard Pool backed by block devices.

• AWS Snowball and SoftNAS® Quick Guide - Provides instructions on how to connect Snowball to your SoftNAS On-Premises VM.

• Using In-Flight Data Encryption - Provides insight into using In-Flight data encryption using CIFS/SMB and NFS by tunneling SSH.

• Using Lsyncd - Provides a quick start on how to setup and use "lynsch" to maintain synchronization of directories and files. 

• Using Robocopy - Shows how to deal with moving a bulk number of files using "robocopy" and eliminating the generation of numerous errors.

• Adding ZFS Intent Log/SLOG and L2ARC for SoftNAS Storage Pools - Provides guidance on how to add a read and/or write log for SoftNAS Storage Pools.

• Configure a CentOS/AWS Linux based Client for SoftNAS LDAP Server - show steps to add a SoftNAS deployment to a LDAP Server.

• How To Configure Existing AD (for 2008 and up) with NIS Server to SoftNAS Samba - provides a step-by-step guide to properly configure an existing Windows 2008/2008R2/2012/2012R2/2016 Active Directory with NIS server to sync users/UID and groups/GID to the SoftNAS Samba CIFS shares.

• SoftNAS LDAP Server Configuration - is a short guide that will walk you through configuration of your SoftNAS LDAP integration using 389-DS.

• Using Previous Microsoft Version with SoftNAS - provides an introduction on how to use previous version of Windows and Snapshots.  How to set up a Snapshot policy and managing them using SoftNAS.

• SoftNAS Multi-Protocol Integration with AD using Kerberos Authentication for NFS/CIFS - is a step-by-step guide on how to properly configure a hybrid (Windows and Linux) system to fully integrate with the SoftNAS Samba CIFS shares and NFS exports.

CIFS/SMB Specific

• GOP Policy on Windows Server 2016 - provides a step-by-step process on how to address this using the StorageCenter Administrator Interface.

• How to enable Previous Versions on CIFS with AD integration - shows how to use the StorageCenter Administrative Interface to enable the use of older versions of CIFS/SMB with Active Directory.

• Samba Shares audit logging - provides a step-by-step guide on how to configure a detailed audit of CIFS shares using Samba.

• Samba LDAP Configuration - shows how to configure a SoftNAS deployment as a LDAP Client.

NFS Specific

• Fix to error: nfs-utils "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock " - show how to resolve this on CentOS, RHEL, and Ubuntu.

• Migrating NFS, and upgrading to NFSv4 - provides steps on how to migrate your NFS enabled volumes and storage pools to a new SoftNAS deployment.

• Mounting NFS with /etc/fstab and NFS mount Options - provides guidance on mounting NFS exports from another machine.

• Mount NFS on Linux using /etc/fstab - provides an alternate way to mount NFS exports.

• NFS 'Export To: Everyone' known issue in 3.4.7 and 3.4.7.1 - Workaround steps - shows a workaround to allow you to set your NFS exports to be accessible to "Everyone".

• NFS Common Commands (Cheat Sheet) - is a list of the various NFS commands that are used.

• NFS Common Mount Commands - is a list of the NFS mount commands.

• NFS Manual - is the NFS version 2, 3, and 4.

• NFS Security - outlines the security issues of data transfer over UDP, and how to mitigate those security concerns.

• NFS permissions issues - covers the "Permission Denied" error message when trying to read/write to an NFS export and how to resolve them.

• NFS Stale File Handle error and solution - shows how to get out of the "Stale file Handle" NFS issue.

• Troubleshooting NFS connectivity and server side issues - provides troubleshooting steps for connectivity and config issues with NFS.

iSCSI

• Applying CHAP Authentication to iSCSI ACLs - provides guidance on seeing up ACLs and CHAP authentication specifically for iSCSI volumes being managed.

• SnapReplicate iSCSI Volume Synchronization - shows have to address a SnapReplicate failure with an iSCSI volume.

Amazon Web Services

• HVM Snap Rep/SNAP HA Build Error Related To HwClock - outlines how to save a new SoftNAS deployment from time related issues.

• IAM User for SNAP HA - provides guidance on setting up and using an IAM user with SNAP HA instead of the AWS Master Keys.

AWS S3 Storage Devices

• Changing/Rotating S3 Keys - provides step-by-step instruction on how to switch your S3 keys for a new set.

Century Link

• SoftNAS® on CenturyLink - provides specific requirements and capabilities of SoftNAS for CenturyLink.

• Setting up SoftNAS on CenturyLink - shows how to deploy SoftNAS as a virtual application running the the CenturyLink Cloud.

Microsoft Azure

• Enabling Azure Accelerated Networking for SoftNAS 4.0.3/4.1 - shows how to enable using the Accelerated Networking abilities within Azure for SoftNAS 4.0.3 and 4.1.0.

• Enabling Azure Accelerated Networking for SoftNAS 4.2  - shows how to enable using the Accelerated Networking abilities within Azure for SoftNAS 4.2.

• Manual Azure.xml Import - shows how to download and import publish settings and subscription information.

Authentication

• Deploying Managed AD Domain Services - is a guide on how to integrate SoftNAS into an Azure AD Domain Controller.

• SoftNAS with Azure Active Directory Integration - is a guide geared towards our Azure customers who want to utilize their existing AADDC in Azure to control Authentication/Administration of SoftNAS resources via their existing Users/Groups in AADDC

ZFS on Linux

• Features of the ZFS filesystem - goes over what ZFS is and why you should understand it.

• ZFS atime Configuration - shows how to improve the kernel workload by setting this variable.

• Auditing SoftNAS Shares - shows how to perform an audit and track security-relevant information regarding the storage being managed by SoftNAS.

• NFS Security Levels - describes the different levels of security as it applies to NFS exports.  This includes covering "host", ACLs, and Kerberos level security.

• Responding to the results of a security scan - talks about responding to various security issues identified from performing a security scan.

• VORMETRIC TRANSPARENT ENCRYPTION and SoftNAS Filers - covers the Vormetric Transparent Encryption and SoftNAS.

• Encrypting SoftNAS Root Volume - Show how to create a  SoftNAS AMI on AWS with an Encrypted EBS root volume that can be used to deploy multiple SoftNAS deployments featuring it.

• How to determine if a Private Offer is being used on Azure - provides the details to look for in the SoftNAS deployed on Azure to what type of offer is being run.

• Enumerating available AWS Marketplace AMIs for use in JSON scripts - provides the commands to access a list of available AMI and their IDs from the AWS Marketplace.

• Fixing a degraded pool due to a deleted disk - provides a step-by-step process to resolve accidently deleting a disk that is part of a storage pool that is in a degraded state.

• Opening a Support Case - shows how to open a support case, what the necessary details are needed, and how to submit it using the StorageCenter Administrative Interface Support Tab.

• Running and retrieving support reports without email functionality - provides instructions on how to retrieve support reports (logs) manually from a SoftNAS deployment without a functioning email account.

• Setup of a FTP server - provides ways for customers that cannot automatically send status report logs from a SoftNAS deployment.

• Fixing NVMe Ephemeral Drive issue for AWS i3 Instances - provides a step-by-step process to fixed Ephemeral Drives on an i3 Instance type.

• Installation of 3rd party tools may void support - provides guidance on how to deal with 3rd party tools/agents with SoftNAS.

• Manual Migration Process for AWS Deployments - is a step-by-step guide to perform a manual migration of a single SoftNAS, and HA Pair, instance with block device pools on AWS.

• Manual Migration Process for Azure Deployments - is a step-by-step guide to perform a manual migration of a single SoftNAS, and HA Pair, instance with block device pools on Azure.

• Migrating Instances in AWS using the Migrator Tool - covers the basic required steps and key considerations to migrate a single SoftNAS, or HA pair, on AWS within the same Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

• SA Guideline for Health Check and Scheduling 5.0.1 Upgrade - is the recommended process to perform a "Health Check" on a SoftNAS deployment for general purposes as well as preparing for migrating from a "pre-5.0" SoftNAS to SoftNAS 5.

• Knowledge Base (KB) Template - This is the template to be used for generating new Knowledge Base (KB) articles for publishing.

• Flexera/BYOL Consumption-based Licensing issues - provides a workaround for this type of deployment.

• Installing HA Hotfix - provides the steps to apply a hotfix in order to eliminate the unnecessary failover issue.

• Installing Hotfix for CVE-2015-7547 - provides the steps required to apply the hotfix for this defect.

• Integrate SoftNAS with Active Directory prior to Version 3 - provides details on how to configure SoftNAS with Active Directory prior to SoftNAS Version 3.

• Submitting a Support Report, version 3.4 and prior - how to submit support reports via email for SoftNAS version 3.4 and earlier.

• Removing AFP from SoftNAS - describes how to uninstall the AFT related packages from a SoftNAS deployment.

• Increase root disk device size on "Pre-4.2" Marketplace Images - provides insight on how to increase the default disk size of the SoftNAS OS root drive on Azure and AWS.

• ARM Template not Launching SoftNAS 4.3.0 on Azure Cloud Platform - goes over the different DR setups available to configure on SoftNAS without hurting overall system performance.

• Enabling Azure Accelerated Networking for SoftNAS 4.2 - shows how to take advantage of Accelerated Networking on Azure for SoftNAS version 4.2.

• API Guide - is the old CLI/API guide that was removed from the StorageCenter Administrative Interface.

• Adding an AWS gp3 disk device to a SoftNAS deployment: Best Practice

• Adding ZFS Intent Log/SLOG and L2ARC for SoftNAS Pools

• Adding an AWS gp3 disk device

• How to Create Password Protected CIFS Share using Samba User Only 

• Upgrading Software through a Firewall

• How to gracefully Shutdown a HA Pair / Restart it

• How to automatically Map Users Home Directories to a SoftNAS (CIFS) Share when they login

• Manual Migration Process for Azure Deployments

• Manual Migration Process for AWS Deployments

• Migrating Instances in AWS using the Migrator Tool

• SoftNAS Multi-Protocol Integration with AD using Kerberos Authentication for NFS/CIFS

• Removing Pools, Volumes, and Devices

• Promoting a SnapClone to a Full Volume via CLI

• Creating a new Azure VM from OsDisk snapshot in Azure

• SoftNAS IAM Role For Azure

• Scheduling EBS Snapshots Using Crontab

• Restoring EBS Snapshots Created by the "EBS Backup and Restore" tool

• How to Monitor SmartTiers™ Data Migration Progress

• Enabling Azure Accelerated Networking for SoftNAS 4.2

• SoftNAS guidance on the Spectre/Meltdown CPU Vulnerability

• Recovering from a High Availability Failure

• SoftNAS Specific - Best Practice Recommendations