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Nasuni Edge Appliance
Initial Configuration Guide
Version 8.3
February 2019
Last modified: February 26, 2019
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Initial Configuration Guide
Version 8.3
February 2019
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
What’s in this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Text Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Product Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Electronic Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Release Notes for Nasuni Documentation Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 1: Configuring the Nasuni Edge Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Nasuni Cloud File Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Nasuni Edge Appliance Web-based interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Nasuni Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Nasuni Edge Appliance Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
General Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Supported Web Browsers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Supported Windows Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Supported macOS Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Supported Virtual Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Virtual Machine Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Initial, Recommended, and Minimum Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Maximum Cache Size by Virtual Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Maximum CPU Processors by Virtual Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Maximum RAM by Virtual Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting with the Nasuni Edge Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SSL Security Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Example using Mozilla Firefox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Example using Google Chrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Example using Microsoft Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Network Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Traffic Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Configure Network Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Setting Up Your Nasuni Edge Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Nasuni Edge Appliance Home Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 2: Accessing Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Cloud Credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Viewing cloud credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Adding or editing cloud credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Deleting cloud credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Folder and File Access Permissions in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Mapping a Windows Network Drive to a CIFS Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Accessing an iSCSI Volume in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Disconnecting from the iSCSI volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Accessing data using the FTP protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Mounting a CIFS Share in Linux or UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Defining NFS datastores using VMware client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Mounting an NFS Export in Linux or UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Web Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Nasuni Mobile Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Folder-Level Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
File Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
File Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Folder-Level Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Administrative Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Nasuni Desktop Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Nasuni Desktop Client controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Using files or folders from the Nasuni Edge Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Adding files or folders to the Nasuni Edge Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Appendix A: IP Address Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Using console commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Changing network device and system parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Changing static IP address and other network parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Enabling DHCP Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Viewing the MAC Address for the Nasuni Edge Appliance Hardware Appliance 100

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Appendix B: Moving a VM to Another Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Appendix C: Nasuni Terms of Service and License Agreement . . . . . . . . 106
Nasuni Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Appendix D: Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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Preface
Audience
This guide is intended for the IT administrator or person responsible for configuring and deploying the
Nasuni Edge Appliance on a corporate network, after the initial installation of the hardware appliance or
virtual machine. To set up a Nasuni Edge Appliance hardware appliance, see the Hardware Getting
Started Guide for the specific hardware appliance. To set up a Nasuni Edge Appliance on the Microsoft
Azure or Amazon EC2 cloud platforms, see the installation guide for the specific platform. For
installation instructions for a virtual machine platform, see the Installing on Virtual Platforms document.
See “Product Documentation” on page 8.
What’s in this Book
This guide contains the following chapters:
•Chapter 1, “Configuring the Nasuni Edge Appliance,” on page 11 explains how to continue the
installation of the Nasuni Edge Appliance on your network using a supported platform.
•Chapter 2, “Accessing Volumes,” on page 43 explains how to start using the Nasuni Edge
Appliance to access CIFS shares, NFS exports, FTP directories, and iSCSI volumes.
•Appendix A, “IP Address Configuration,” on page 90 explains how to change the IP address at
the console.
•Appendix C, “Nasuni Terms of Service and License Agreement,” on page 106 provides the Web
URL for accessing the Nasuni Edge Appliance end user license agreement.

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Preface What’s in this Book
Text Conventions
The following text conventions are used in this document:
Convention Description
1. Number Used to indicate a step in a task.
•Bullet Used for items in a list without any particular order.
Bold Used to give emphasis to a word. Also used for named
graphical elements.
Italics Used to represent options or parameters.
Underline Used for hyperlinks, such as links to Web sites.
Monospace Used to indicate pathnames, filenames, folder names,
typed information, and code.

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Product Documentation
Electronic Publications
Extensive documentation is available for all aspects of installing, configuring, and operating the Nasuni
Edge Appliance (Filer). The latest version of each of the following documents is available in PDF format
at https://nasunisuccess.force.com/Support/s/support-documents.
•Hardware Getting Started Guides: To set up a Nasuni Edge Appliance on a Nasuni hardware
appliance:
•NF-60 Hardware Appliance Getting Started Guide.
•NF-200 Hardware Appliance Getting Started Guide.
•NF-400 Hardware Appliance Getting Started Guide.
•NF-440 Hardware Appliance Getting Started Guide.
•NF-600 Hardware Appliance Getting Started Guide.
•N2040 Hardware Appliance Getting Started Guide.
•N4040 Hardware Appliance Getting Started Guide.
• Installing on Virtual Machines: For installing the Nasuni Edge Appliance on a virtual machine:
•Installing the Nasuni Edge Appliance on Virtual Platforms: For installing the Nasuni Edge
Appliance on a virtual machine within a corporate network.
•Installing the Nasuni Edge Appliance on the Azure Platform: For installing the Nasuni Edge
Appliance on the Microsoft Azure cloud virtual machine.
•Installing the Nasuni Edge Appliance on the EC2 Platform: For installing the Nasuni Edge
Appliance on the Amazon EC2 cloud virtual machine.
•Initial Configuration Guide: For configuring and deploying the Nasuni Edge Appliance after the
initial installation on the hardware appliance or virtual machine.
•Nasuni Edge Appliance Administration Guide: Managing storage with a Nasuni Edge Appliance.
•Nasuni Management Console Guide: For managing multiple Nasuni Edge Appliances.

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Product Documentation Release Notes for Nasuni Documentation Set
•Nasuni Management Console Quick Start Guide: To quickly get started using the Nasuni
Management Console to manage multiple Nasuni Edge Appliances.
•Using Multiple Protocols: Discusses scenarios requiring particular access to data, and how
different combinations of protocols can help provide the access that clients need.
•Third-Party Licensing Guide: Listing of third-party software used in the Nasuni Edge Appliance.
Release Notes for Nasuni Documentation Set
Date (As Of) Changes
2019-02-26 Added details to Nutanix procedure, in Installing on Virtual.
For Azure users, added suggestion to keep port 443 open to
*.blob.core.windows.net for the Azure Linux Agent (WALinuxAgent),
in Firewall Best Practices and other documents.
Added details to Varonis Best Practices.
Added details about Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) to Best
Practices, Initial Configuration Guide, and Administration Guide.
2019-02-04 Added warnings against using disallowed characters in the name of an
Edge Appliance, in NMC Guide, Administration Guide, and other
documents.
2019-01-15 Clarified that an Administrative User is necessary to view hidden .nasuni
directory, in NMC Guide, Administration Guide, and other
documents.
2018-12-20 Added suggestion to use security provided by cloud service providers, in
many documents.
Added details about volume permissions policies, in Mobile Access Guide,
NMC Guide, FTP Best Practices Guide, and Administration Guide.
2018-11-15 Added 4,000-byte limit to path name, in many documents.
Warned that creating CIFS shares on Advanced Global Locking directory
disconnects users and disrupts reads and writes, in NMC Guide and
Administration Guide.
Added FIPS 140-2 support, in Compatibility and Support.
Added new hostname, in Firewall Best Practices.
Expanded material on Apple Open Directory, Oracle DS, and FreeIPA, in
LDAP Best Practices.

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Product Documentation Release Notes for Nasuni Documentation Set
2018-10-29 Clarified the maximum supported number of cores, amount of RAM, and
cache size, in many documents.
Clarified that Mobile Access must be enabled in the customer license
before Mobile Access or Web Access can be used, in many
documents.
Clarified that NTFS permissions policies are not available for LDAP Edge
Appliances, in Mobile Access Guide, NMC Guide, FTP Best
Practices Guide, and Administration Guide.
2018-10-26 Clarified LDAP procedures and information, in Administration Guide.
Updated supported virtual platforms, supported Windows operating
systems, maximum CPUs, maximum RAM, and maximum cache size
in Suggestions for VM Installation Guide, Recovery Guide, NMC
Quick Start Guide, Installing on Virtual Guide, Initial Configuration
Guide, and Administration Guide.
Added details about Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) to Best
Practices, Initial Configuration Guide, and Administration Guide.
2018-09-26 Specified that the maximum amount of memory that can be configured is
128 GiB, in many documents.
2018-09-07 Clarified that users might not receive helpful information about global file
lock conflicts from platforms and applications, in Administration
Guide and Global Locking Guide.
Added details to DNS procedure, in Configuring DNS for Mobile Access
Service Discovery.
Added references to the NMC API, in NMC Guide.
2018-08-14 Added warning about how Windows clients might deal with the case-
sensitivity of file names, in Administration Guide, Best Practices
Guide, and NMC Guide.
Added procedure for specifying local user names, in Administration Guide
and NMC Guide.
2018-08-06 Added stronger warnings to obtain all encryption keys before attempting to
recover a Nasuni Edge Appliance, in Recovery Guide.
Added new explanations and procedures for CIFS User Folders Support,
in Administration Guide.
Added procedure for disabling virtual machine snapshots, in Installing on
Virtual.
Date (As Of) Changes

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Chapter 1: Configuring the Nasuni Edge Appliance
Overview
This chapter explains how to configure the Nasuni Edge Appliance on your network.
Before following the steps in this chapter, ensure that the Nasuni Edge Appliance has been set up by
an IT specialist. To set up a Nasuni Edge Appliance hardware appliance, see the Hardware Getting
Started Guide for the specific hardware appliance. To set up a Nasuni Edge Appliance on the Microsoft
Azure or Amazon EC2 cloud platforms, see the installation guide for the specific platform. For
installation instructions for a virtual machine platform, see the Installing on Virtual Platforms document.
See “Product Documentation” on page 8.
Before you begin, you should have the initial IP address of your Nasuni Edge Appliance from either the
hardware appliance or virtual machine installation.
In this chapter
•“Nasuni Cloud File Services” on page 12
•“Key Terms” on page 14
•“Nasuni Edge Appliance Specifications” on page 15
•“SSL Security Certificate” on page 22
•“Network Settings” on page 26
•“Setting Up Your Nasuni Edge Appliance” on page 37

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Configuring the Nasuni Edge Appliance Nasuni Cloud File Services
Nasuni Cloud File Services
UniFS®
Nasuni®Cloud File Services™ is powered by UniFS®, downloadable software that is the first global file
system designed for modern cloud object storage, and which enables users to access their third-party
file storage providers from any location rapidly, safely, and securely. Using Nasuni Cloud File Services,
organizations can store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on unstructured file data, from actively
used to inactive, across all locations.
Nasuni’s software-defined platform consolidates Network Attached Storage (NAS), distributed file
servers, data protection, instant recovery, file archiving, multi-site file synchronization, and global file
locking in one simple, scalable solution that spans the data center and the cloud.
Nasuni Cloud File Services store all files and metadata in private (on-premises) or public cloud object
storage to provide unlimited primary or archive file storage capacity, then intelligently cache just the
active data on lightweight Nasuni Edge Appliances to provide local, high-performance file access in any
location.
Note: Nasuni Edge Appliances are sometimes referred to by the shorter name “Filers”.
The Nasuni Edge Appliance can be a virtual machine that runs on Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESXi,
Nutanix AHV, Microsoft Azure, or Amazon EC2, or a Nasuni hardware appliance. The Nasuni Edge
Appliance performs two main tasks:
• Securely transmits files to cloud object storage where the authoritative copies of all files are
stored.
• Caches actively used files locally to provide high-performance file access and minimize cloud
egress charges in deployments where Nasuni is backed by public cloud storage.
Just like traditional NAS controllers or file servers, Nasuni Edge Appliances support NFS, CIFS, FTP/
SFTP, iSCSI, and HTTP/ REST protocols. They are also fully integrated with Active Directory, LDAP,
Distributed File System (DFS), and Windows Previous Versions.
Nasuni Continuous File Versioning™
Each appliance includes Nasuni Continuous File Versioning, software that is a high-performance cache
that takes periodic snapshots of the file system. This continuous snapshotting captures file changes as
they occur, and transmits only those changes to the third-party cloud storage system, so that the third-
party cloud storage system always contains the latest version of every customer file. It also provides
highly granular file-level data protection that offers improved recovery points and recovery times
compared to traditional file backup, eliminating the need for backup hardware, software, and
maintenance.
The reach and capacity of Nasuni Edge Appliances far exceed traditional NAS controllers, because the
appliances store only active files, and have the entire back-end capacity of cloud object storage at their
disposal. All data is deduplicated, compressed, and encrypted by the appliances before being
transmitted to object storage.
Nasuni supports the leading third-party object storage services:
• Public cloud storage services Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage and Amazon Simple Storage
Service (Amazon S3).

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Configuring the Nasuni Edge Appliance Nasuni Edge Appliance Web-based interface
• Private cloud (on-premises) storage services IBM Cloud Object Storage, and Dell EMC Elastic
Cloud Storage (ECS).
The choices for the back-end cloud storage component are part of each customer license. Each
volume has only one back-end cloud storage component.
Nasuni Global Volume Manager™
Nasuni Global Volume Manager enables you to ensure that all volumes are uniquely aligned. Nasuni
Global Volume Manager is software that aligns and stores each change as its own unique, immutable
version, transmits the change to your third-party cloud storage system at a high speed, and distributes
that change to every Nasuni Edge Appliance in all locations, so that customers can ensure that all users
in all locations are accessing the latest files from the third-party cloud storage system.
Nasuni Global File Lock™
Nasuni is designed to enable multiple appliances to connect to a single volume, so that users in
different locations can collaborate on the same shared files. Nasuni Global File Lock is software that
works with third-party cloud storage to ensure that only one user can write data at a time, minimizing
the possibility of version conflicts. Nasuni Global File Lock ensures that only one user in the world can
make file changes at any time, by controlling the transmission of data by multiple users to your third-
party cloud storage system does not overlap.
Organizations benefit by having a simple, safe, and secure way to share data across any number of
sites. Nasuni’s multi-site access capabilities include:
• Secure data distribution to remote office/branch office (ROBO).
• Remote offices forwarding data to a central point.
• Two-way synchronized read-write.
Nasuni’s multi-site access also does away with costly and cumbersome replication schemes and slow
WAN optimizers.
Nasuni Edge Appliance Web-based interface
Each Nasuni Edge Appliance offers a Web-based interface that enables you to manage volumes and
performance. To manage many Edge Appliances, you use the Nasuni Management Console.
Nasuni Management Console
The Nasuni Management Console enables you to monitor and manage many Nasuni Edge Appliances
from one central Web-based interface. Using the Nasuni Management Console, you can view the
status of all of your appliances, as well as configure their settings. Using the Nasuni Management
Console, you can also ensure consistent settings by applying changes to all appliances with one
operation.

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Configuring the Nasuni Edge Appliance Key Terms
Key Terms
The following terms are helpful in understanding the Nasuni Edge Appliance:
•Nasuni Edge Appliance (Filer): The virtual or physical appliance in your data center that
integrates with your infrastructure via CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FTP/SFTP, or HTTPS/REST protocols.
The Nasuni Edge Appliance can be mapped as a network drive.
•Nasuni Edge Appliance user interface: The Web-based graphical user interface with which
you configure and manage the Nasuni Edge Appliance. The Nasuni Edge Appliance user
interface is accessible with supported Web browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Internet
Explorer, Safari, and Google Chrome.
•Nasuni Management Console (NMC): The Web-accessible appliance with which you can
configure and manage multiple Nasuni Edge Appliances. The Nasuni Management Console is
accessible with supported Web browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Apple
Safari, and Google Chrome.
•Cloud storage: Internet-based, highly protected, unlimited storage.
•Volume: A set of files and directories (CIFS, NFS, and FTP/SFTP) or blocks of data (iSCSI).
•Share/export: An access point to a folder on a volume that can be shared or exported on your
network. Access to a CIFS share can be customized on a user-level or group-level basis. You
can create many shares or exports on a volume, for different purposes or audiences.
•Cache: The local storage of the Nasuni Edge Appliance. All data and metadata that is accessed
regularly is kept locally in the cache. If requested data is not locally resident, it is staged into the
cache and provided for the request.
•Snapshot: A snapshot is a complete picture of your volume at a specific point in time.
Snapshots offer data protection by enabling you to recover data deleted in error or to restore an
entire file system. After a snapshot has been taken and is sent to cloud storage, it is not
possible to modify that snapshot.

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Nasuni Edge Appliance Specifications
This section contains specifications for configuring the Nasuni Edge Appliance.
General Specifications
The following table lists general specifications for the Nasuni Edge Appliance.
Important: These are general recommendations. Your specific situation might require further
resources.
Note: The maximum amount of memory that can be configured is 128 GiB. Any memory above
the limit of 128 GiB is ignored.
Description Value
Maximum number of owned volumes per Nasuni
Edge Appliance.
8
Maximum number of files in the Nasuni Service. Unlimited
Maximum capacity of files in the Nasuni Service. Unlimited (might be restricted by license)
Default cache size on disk. 250 GB (VM only)
Default copy-on-write (COW) disk size. 62 GiB (VM only)
Default snapshot period. 1 hour (after last snapshot)
Maximum file size. Available cache space at time of write
Number of cache volumes supported. 1
Minimum memory required. 4 GiB (VM only)

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Supported Web Browsers
The Nasuni Edge Appliance supports the following Web browsers:
Supported Windows Operating Systems
The Nasuni Edge Appliance provides file sharing services to the following Windows operating systems:
Server Operating Systems
Desktop Operating Systems
Browser Version
Mozilla Firefox Latest
Internet Explorer Latest two versions
Google Chrome Latest
Apple Safari Latest
Operating System Version Service Packs
Windows Server 2016
(recommended for better performance)
Standard N/A
Windows Server 2012 Standard N/A
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard N/A
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard SP1
Operating System Version Service Packs
Windows 7 Professional 1
Windows 8.1 Professional N/A
Windows 10, version 1709 Professional N/A

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Supported macOS Operating Systems
The Nasuni Edge Appliance provides file sharing services to the macOS operating system versions 10.9
(Mavericks) and 10.10 (Yosemite).
Note: The name of the Macintosh operating system changed from “Mac OS X” to “macOS” with
macOS version 10.12 (Sierra). This document uses “macOS” to refer to both macOS and
Mac OS X.
Supported Virtual Platforms
The Nasuni Edge Appliance runs as a virtual machine within the following virtual server platform
versions:
Operating System Version
Nutanix AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) Version: 20170830.151 and above
VMware ESXi 5.5 and above
(including support for virtual machine disks (VMDKs)
larger than 2 TB
on VMFS-5 or NFS datastores)
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V (recommended for better performance)
2012 Hyper-V (supported )
2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V (supported)

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Virtual Machine Recommendations
The minimum or recommended virtual machine resources for running the Nasuni Edge Appliance are as
follows:
Important: These are general recommendations. Your specific situation might require further
resources.
Important: The maximum number of CPU processors (or virtual CPUs) that can be configured is
40. Any CPU processors (or virtual CPUs) above the limit of 40 are ignored.
Important: The maximum amount of memory that can be configured is 128 GiB. Any memory
above the limit of 128 GiB is ignored.
Limit Value
Minimum free disk space to run the Nasuni Edge
Appliance.
352 GB (328 GiB)
(includes operating system, 250 GB cache,
and cache-on-write (COW) disk)
Recommended memory on a VM host. 8 GiB
Recommended Nasuni Edge Appliance
Virtual Machine minimum memory.
8 GiB
Nasuni Edge Appliance Virtual Machine processors. 4 default, 8 for optimal performance

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Initial, Recommended, and Minimum Memory
The memory allocation for a virtual machine platform (VM) is set and changed in the hypervisor. The
memory allocation that is first set is the "initial memory allocation".
The "recommended memory allocation" is a suggested amount of memory. If the VM has less than the
"recommended memory allocation", an alert informs the customer of the situation.
There is also a "minimum memory allocation". If the VM has less than the "minimum memory
allocation", then the software does not run.
Tip: For both the Nasuni Edge Appliance and the NMC, it might be necessary to increase the
memory allocation above the recommended memory allocation, depending on the
workload.
For the Nasuni Edge Appliance, these values are:
• Initial memory allocation: 8 GiB
• Recommended memory allocation: 8 GiB
• Minimum memory allocation: 4 GiB
Note: The document preview feature of Nasuni Web Access requires a minimum of 8 GiB and
version OS7 of the Nasuni Edge Appliance base operating system.
For the NMC, these values are:
• Initial memory allocation: 6 GiB
• Recommended memory allocation: 6 GiB
• Minimum memory allocation: 2 GiB
Important: These are general recommendations. Your specific situation might require further
resources.
Note: The maximum amount of memory that can be configured is 128 GiB. Any memory above
the limit of 128 GiB is ignored.

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Maximum Cache Size by Virtual Platform
The maximum cache size for the Nasuni Edge Appliance depends on the total usable capacity of the
VM host. The combined cache and COW disks on each Nasuni Edge Appliance should not consume
more than 75 percent of the total capacity of the VM host. The COW disk should be at least 25 percent
of the cache disk.
Nasuni has tested cache sizes up to 36 TB. For a larger cache size, consult Nasuni Product
Management.
Each platform also has its own maximum disk size. However, multiple cache disks can be combined to
form the total cache.
Note: To add cache space by configuring additional cache disks, contact Nasuni Support.
Maximum CPU Processors by Virtual Platform
The maximum number of CPU processors (or virtual CPUs) that can be configured is 40. Any CPU
processors (or virtual CPUs) above the limit of 40 are ignored.
For Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, the limit is 4 CPU processors.
Maximum RAM by Virtual Platform
The maximum amount of RAM that can be configured for supported virtual platforms is 128 GB. Any
RAM above the limit of 128 GB is ignored.
For Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, the limit is 64 GB.