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STACKIT File Storage provides managed NFS network file shares for multi-instance data sharing.

Service Overview

Section titled “Service Overview”
  • Shared Data Access: Concurrent high-performance read-write access for multiple VM instances.
  • Kubernetes RWX Support: Native ReadWriteMany (RWX) volume support for STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE).
  • Snapshot Protection: Integrated file share snapshot routines for fast file-level recovery.

Technical Details

Section titled “Technical Details”
  • Access Control: IP-based export rules with Read-Write (RW) or Read-Only (RO) permissions.

Limits

Section titled “Limits”

The values below come from the STACKIT documentation and update themselves.

From the STACKIT docsLimits › General limitsSource updated 22.04.2026 · copied 05.10.2026
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Limit:Value:Note:
Min. Capacity Resource Pool500 GBMin. Size of a single Resource Pool
Max. Capacity Resource Pool20 TBMax. Size of a single Resource Pool
Supported NFS-VersionsNFSv3, NFSv4.1, NFSv4.2Supported unencrypted versions of NFS protocol
Max. share export policies200Max. number of share export policies per Project
Max. rules per share export policy10Max. rules per export policy
Max. shares per Resource Pool200Max. number of shares per Resource Pool
Expected latency< 2 msExpected storage backend latency depending on the workload. Does not include network latency
Max. snapshots (manually)100Max. amount of snapshots of a Resource Pool that are created manually
Max. snapshots in schedule100Max. amount of snapshots of a Resource Pool that are created via a schedule
Max. Retention for Snapshot Immutability30 daysMax. time that can be set to lock Snapshots
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Limitations & Constraints

Section titled “Limitations & Constraints”
  • No Native SMB/CIFS: Windows file share protocols (SMB/CIFS) and Active Directory joins are currently unsupported.
  • No iSCSI LUNs: Delivers file-level NFS exports only; block-level iSCSI LUN provisioning is unavailable.
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