SoftNAS has partnered with CenturyLink, allowing SoftNAS ® instances to be deployed on CenturyLink cloud storage. CenturyLink is a widely respected player in the internet, cloud services and data management industries, with clients all over North America, from residential to enterprise. SoftNAS has provided a Virtual Appliance - what CenturyLink calls a Partner Template - that can be deployed to your CenturyLink Cloud account via a Service Task.

This deployment process for Partner Templates currently requires manual interaction via the Service Task process, but will be further automated in future releases of the CenturyLink Cloud Platform.
See "Setting up SoftNAS on CenturyLink" for more detailed instructions on setting up your CenturyLink with SoftNAS instance.

SoftNAS ® System Requirements

Listed below is a table to assist with the setup decisions during the configuration required to accomplish various tasks and goals.

	Recommended
Compute
Regular Tier	Under 15000 iOPS
Hyper-scale	Over 15000 iOPS
Memory
Configurable	1GB -128 GB
Storage
Boot Disk	30 GB Hard disk for Linux boot and system disk
Data Disks	Native Storage Devices 1Gb to 1 Terabyte volumes, up to 4 Terabytes per instance (4x1 terabyte volumes). Also compatible with S3 storage spots.
Software RAID	Recommended to configure EBS disks using SoftNAS software RAID for increased performance and data durability.
Networking
High Speed Connectivity	All CenturyLink VMs operate at 10 GbE inter-connectivity.
HA Networking	Supported on same 10 GbE interfaces
HA Host Failover	Configure multiple redundant SoftNAS ® instances in separate availablity zones or different geographic regions.

Note: Refer to CenturyLink's documentation for storage tiering SSD performance metrics.

SoftNAS ® System Capacities

Listed below is a table representing the capabilities of the SoftNAS ® for CenturyLink.

	SoftNAS ® Capacity	Configuration Note
Editions
SoftNAS ® Express	1 TB
SoftNAS ® Standard	20 TB
SoftNAS ® Enterprise	16 TB
Memory
RAM Cache	1 GB to 100 GB	Defaults to 50% total RAM for read cache
SSD Cache	low-speed level 2 cache	Optional
Ephemeral Cache	low-speed level 2 cache	Optional for read cache
Storage
Maximum Storage	16 TB	Maximum usable storage capacity with SoftNAS ®, contingent on instance type.
of Storage Pools	Unlimited
of Volumes	Unlimited
of Snapshots	Unlimited
of Snapshot Clones	Unlimited
SnapReplicate	Unlimited Pools & Volumes
SnapReplicate Throttle	56Kb/sec to Unlimited bandwidth
Active Directory	Kerberos Integration
Files and Directories	Unlimited
Network
Schedules	Unlimited
NFS Exports:	Linux Default
iSCSI Targets	Linux Default
CIFS Shares	Linux Default
Firewall Ports:	22 (ssh), 443 (https)	Plus NFS, iSCSI, and CIFS as required by network
IP Tables Firewall	Off by default	May be configured, but is not required. Use an alternative method to set Security Groups unless added firewall protection on SoftNAS ® instance is required.

SoftNAS ® for CenturyLink Installation Options

SoftNAS ® provides the following applicable products:

SoftNAS ® Express (1TB of storage)
SoftNAS ® Standard (20TB of storage)
SoftNAS ® Enterprise (up to 16 PB of storage)

Product	Storage	Purchase	License
SoftNAS ® Express	1 TB	Purchased from SoftNAS.	Monthly and Annual Options
SoftNAS ® Standard	20 TB	Purchased from SoftNAS.	Monthly and Annual Options
SoftNAS ® Enterprise	16 PB	Purchased from SoftNAS.	Monthly and Annual Options

SoftNAS SNAP HA^TM included with each product.

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