Downloading SoftNAS for Hyper-V
1. In order to download SoftNAS and avail its services, you need to sign up and become a member of the SoftNAS community.
Signing up and downloading SoftNAS are very easy. Simply follow the steps given below.
1. Open your browser and enter the SoftNAS website link https://www.softnas.com/ in the Address bar.
The SoftNAS home page will be displayed.
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3. Click on Purchase>Downloads.
The SoftNAS Download Registration page will be displayed. Enter your first and last name, company name and email address to proceed with the download.
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Press the Download button to register and download.
The Customer Downloads page will be displayed.
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10. In the SoftNAS for Microsoft Hyper-V section, click the Download Now button for the requied SoftNAS version based on either Hyper-V 2012 or Hyper-V 2008 R2. version. In the above example, the SoftNAS for Hyper-V 2012 is being downloaded.
The SoftNAS for the selected platform starts downloading. The standard Save dialog will be displayed.
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4. Save the SoftNAS-HyperV2012 zip file to your computer.
SoftNAS for Hyper-V is delivered as an exported VM Import virtual machine image for Hyper-V.
5. After the zip file is completely downloaded, extract the files to the server's hard drive.
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The extracted files are shown below.
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