{
  "id": "quickstart",
  "title": "Flex and Auto Tiering quick start",
  "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/8.0/databases/flash/quickstart/",
  "summary": "Get started with Flex and Auto Tiering quickly, creating a cluster and database using flash storage.",
  "content": "\n\nThis article includes a quick start for Flex and its predecessor Auto Tiering. For more detailed information about Flex, see the dedicated [Flex databases](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/flex) section instead.\n\n\nThis page guides you through a quick setup of [Flex and Auto Tiering](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/databases/flash) with a single node for testing and demo purposes.\n\nFor production environments, you can find more detailed installation instructions in the [install and setup](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/installing-upgrading) section.\n\nThe steps to set up a Redis Software cluster using Flex\nwith a single node are:\n\n1. Install Redis Software or run it in a Docker\n    container.\n1. Set up a Redis Software cluster with Flex.\n1. Create a new database with Flex enabled.\n1. Connect to your new database.\n\n## Install Redis Software\n\n### Bare metal, VM, Cloud instance\n\nTo install on bare metal, a virtual machine, or an instance:\n\n1. Download the binaries from the [Redis Software download center](https://cloud.redis.io/#/sign-up/software?direct=true).\n\n1. Upload the binaries to a Linux-based operating system.\n\n1. Extract the image:\n\n    ```sh\n    tar -vxf \u003cdownloaded tar file name\u003e\n    ```\n\n1. After the `tar` command completes, you can find a new `install.sh` script in the current directory:\n\n    ```sh\n    sudo ./install.sh -y\n    ```\n\n### Docker-based installation {#dockerbased-installation}\n\nFor testing purposes, you can run a Redis Software\nDocker container on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.\n\n```sh\ndocker run -d --cap-add sys_resource --name rp -p 8443:8443 -p 12000:12000 redislabs/redis:latest\n```\n\n## Prepare and format flash memory\n\nAfter you [install Redis Software](#install-redis-enterprise-software), use the `prepare_flash` script to prepare and format flash memory:\n\n```sh\nsudo /opt/redislabs/sbin/prepare_flash.sh\n```\n\nThis script finds unformatted disks and mounts them as RAID partitions in `/var/opt/redislabs/flash`.\n\nTo verify the disk configuration, run:\n\n```sh\nsudo lsblk\n```\n\n## Set up a cluster and enable Flex\n\n1. Direct your browser to `https://localhost:8443` on the host machine to\nsee the Redis Software Cluster Manager UI.\n\n    \nDepending on your browser, you may see a certificate error.\nChoose \"continue to the website\" to go to the setup screen.\n    \n\n1. Select **Create new cluster**.\n\n1. Set up account credentials for a cluster administrator, then select **Next** to proceed to cluster setup.\n\n1. Enter your cluster license key if you have one. Otherwise, the cluster uses the trial version.\n\n1. Provide a cluster FQDN such as `mycluster.local`, then select **Next**.\n\n1. In the **Storage configuration** section, turn on the **Enable flash storage** toggle.\n\n1. Select **Create cluster**.\n\n1. Select **OK** to confirm that you are aware of the replacement of the HTTPS TLS\ncertificate on the node, and proceed through the browser warning.\n\n## Create a database\n\nOn the **Databases** screen:\n\n1. Select **Quick database**.\n\n1. Verify **Flash** is selected for **Runs on**.\n\n    ![images/rs/screenshots/databases/quick-db-flash-7-8-2.png](https://redis.io/docs/latest/images/rs/screenshots/databases/quick-db-flash-7-8-2.png)\n\n1. Enter `12000` for the endpoint **Port** number.\n\n1. _(Optional)_ Select **Full options** to see available alerts.\n\n1. Select **Create**.\n\nYou now have a database with Flex enabled!\n\n## Connect to your database\n\nAfter you create the database, you can connect to it and store data. See [Test client connection](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/databases/connect/test-client-connectivity) for connection options and examples.\n\n## Next steps\n\nTo see the true performance and scale of Flex, you must tune your I/O path and set the flash path to the mounted path of SSD or NVMe flash memory as that is what it is designed to run on. For more information, see [Flex and Auto Tiering](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/databases/flash/).\n",
  "tags": ["docs","operate","rs"],
  "last_updated": "2026-07-23T12:05:56-05:00"
}