Supported Storage Types: Azure

Azure Blob Storage Support Change

With the release of SoftNAS 5.2.0, the support of Azure Blob Storage as well as SmartTiers has been changed. No new deployments will be permitted to allocated these storage types however existing deployments will still be able to manage any blob storage or SmartTiers already in place.

 The following storage types are supported for SoftNAS instances on Microsoft Azure. If deploying a SmartTier configurations, please consult the table below to ensure that the storage type selected is supported for SmartTiers Tiers.


Supported?

Can be used as a SmartTier Tier?














Block

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/



P4

Y

Y

P6

Y

Y

P10

Y

Y

P15

Y

Y

P20

Y

Y

P30

Y

Y

P40

Y

Y

P50

Y

Y

 

Redundancy Support per Type

Object

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/



LRS

ZRS

GRS

RA-GRS

Hot

Y

N

X




Cool

Y

N

X




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