AWS Getting Started - Create Second SoftNAS Instance for High Availability (HA)

To create your second SoftNAS instance for High Availability, please follow the instructions presented on AWS Getting Started - Create your SoftNAS Instances.
The difference here will be your Availability Zone. In the Network settings section, you need to ensure that you pick a subnet that is located in a different Availability Zone than what your first instance is in.
FOR EXAMPLE: If the first SoftNAS instance you created was assigned a subnet that was located in us-east-2a, your second SoftNAS instance would need an assigned subnet that was located in us-east-2b or us-east-2c.

Do NOT create a column on the second instance. The storage pool on the second instance serves as a landing strip for the volume in a failover situation.

The Availability Zone for the currently selected subnet is identified in the Subnet selection box.

More information regarding VPC and Subnet creation can be found here.

Don't forget to add a secondary network interface to this instance as well. Instructions can be found here.

SoftNAS Documentation

AWS Getting Started - Create Second SoftNAS Instance for High Availability (HA)

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