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.
 
Performance Considerations
RAID Considerations
 
Common Performance Use Cases
 
S3 Cloud Disk Best Practices
 

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:
 
  • Virtual hard disks (VMDK), as well as all VMware-supported datastores including local disks, fiber-channel SAN, iSCSI SAN, and dual path disks.
     
  • SSD, SATA/SAS, HDD disk devices, including Hybrid Storage Pools
 
For cloud-based offerings, SoftNAS Cloud® supports the following disk formats:
 
 
Networking Best Practices
 
Security Best Practices