SoftNAS™  operates as a Virtual Machine, like any other VM's running in your VMware environment today. The difference is that SoftNAS turns VMware into a NAS server.

 

Important SoftNAS Models include

 

 

Premise-based Computing Infrastructure - VMware and Hyper-V

 

SoftNAS installs from an OVF and VMDK as a virtual server appliance.  You can run a single SoftNAS VM or as many instances as you need.

 

 

For more information, refer to the following section.

 

Installing and Configuring SoftNAS for VMware

 

Installing and Configuring SoftNAS for Microsoft Hyper-V

 

 

Cloud Computing  - Amazon EC2

 

In an Amazon EC2 or other cloud computing environment, SoftNAS provides the network storage backbone needed for business critical cloud applications.

 

SoftNAS for EC2 leverages EBS (Elastic Block Storage) as its underlying block storage devices.  Multiple EBS devices are then organized into RAID configurations, increasing performance and throughput, and providing the ability to recover from underlying physical disk failures that can occur with EBS.  SoftNAS provides the most durable, highest performance NAS solution available for Amazon EC2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information, refer to the following section

 

Amazon EC2 Installation and Configuration