What type of storage drives are compatible to use as data folders for Qlik Replicate and Qlik Enterprise Manager?

[Steve_Nguyen]

What types of storage drives can be used for the Qlik Replicate and Qlik Enterprise Manager data folder?

Using unsupported storage types can lead to issues such as:

• Cannot stop or kill defunct tasks, even if services are restarted and tasks are manually stopped
• Log files cannot be accessed
• SQLite general error. Code <5>, Message <database is locked>

Environment

• Qlik Replicate 
• Qlik Enterprise Manager

Qlik recommends using a block device (physical, virtual or iSCSI-based) for the Qlik Replicate and Qlik Enterprise Manager data folder.

• Using NFS or SMB-based storage is not supported due to the associated latency which could greatly degrade the data transfer performance, as well as due to reduced reliability and compatibility issues.
• Using of UNC path is not supported, such as \\mymapdrive\qlik\data
• Qlik Replicate also does not support EFS due to its reliance on SQLite to store configuration information. See Qlik Replicate: Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) not supported for Linux Deployments.