Sonarr automates the monitoring, downloading, and renaming of episodic television content. It operates on the Acquisition Server (VM-A) and listens on TCP Port 8989.

Install Sonarr natively into `/opt/Sonarr` and configure its systemd unit.

Once active, navigate to Settings → General and locate the API Key. Note: You must copy this 32-character hex string and paste it into Prowlarr and Overseerr to establish inter-app communication.

Sonarr must be able to instruct qBittorrent to download a file, and then instantly “move” that file to the final media folder without duplicating the data on the disk.

Navigate to Settings → Media Management:

1. Show Advanced Settings: Enabled.
2. Use Hardlinks instead of Copy: Check this box (CRITICAL).
3. Root Folder: Add `/mnt/data/media/tv/`.

Architectural Guardrail: Hardlinks only work if the source file (in `/torrents/`) and the destination file (in `/media/tv/`) reside on the exact same underlying file system. This is why we enforced the single `/volume1/data` root in the nfs_fabric blueprint.

To prevent a single television series featuring hundreds of episodes from exhausting your storage array, we enforce strict resolution and bitrate caps.

Navigate to Settings → Profiles:

1. Delete all default profiles except Any.
2. Rename Any to Standard 1080p/720p.
3. Edit the profile to explicitly Disable all 2160p (4K), RAW-HD, and Remux qualities.
4. Arrange the priority order: `1080p WEB-DL` > `1080p HDTV` > `720p WEB-DL` > `720p HDTV`.

Navigate to Settings → Download Clients:

1. Add qBittorrent.
2. Host: `localhost`
3. Port: `8023`
4. Category: `tv-sonarr` (This tags the torrent in qBittorrent so Cleanuparr knows which application owns the file lifecycle).

Next Step: Deploy the movie equivalent in Radarr (Movie Acquisition).