SoftNAS Cloud Performance Best Practices
The following sections provide a high-level overview of the concepts to understand before getting started with any SoftNAS Cloud® installation and configuration.
Performance Best Practices
The tradeoffs between cost and performance can be significant, so understanding actual, initial performance needs, plus contingency plans to address growth in those needs over time, is important when designing a SoftNAS Cloud® solution.
Disk Management & Network Best Practices
SoftNAS Cloud® supports a broad range of data disk formats based on supported platform vendor. For on-premise installations, the following data disk formats are supported:
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Virtual hard disks (VMDK), as well as all VMware-supported datastores including local disks, fiber-channel SAN, iSCSI SAN, and dual path disks.
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SSD, SATA/SAS, HDD disk devices, including Hybrid Storage Pools
For cloud-based offerings, SoftNAS Cloud® supports the following disk formats:
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EBS disks from Amazon EC2
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