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	Any virtual machine selected must have a minimum of 4 vCPUs.
Small Workloads	D8v3	Limited performance and functions. Advanced capabilities such as SnapReplicate and SNAP HA^TM 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 HA^TM
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.

	SoftNAS® Capacity	Configuration Note
Offers
SoftNAS®	16 PB	Available as Azure subscription and BYOL from SoftNAS.
Memory
RAM Cache	16 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/16PB	16 TB - Maximum usable block storage capacity on Azure Marketplace, contingent on instance type. 16PB - Can be extended up to 16 petabytes by leveraging multiple Azure Blob storage accounts.
Number of Storage Pools	Unlimited
Number of Volumes	Unlimited
Number of Snapshots	Unlimited
Number 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
Firewalld	on by default	Firewall ports required may vary by use case. Lift and Shift deployments will require additional configuration, as will deployments using NFSv3, for example. For more information see Managing Firewall.