Lift and Shift™ is but a part of the SoftNAS® Platinum stack, and as such, is part of an integrated whole. Creating an instance of SoftNAS® provides the basis for not only Lift and Shift™ functionality, but also for UltraFast™ and the remaining components. The same processes outlined in the below documentation apply to the instances or VMs designated for a Lift and Shift use case.
To create your VMware (on-premise) instance:
If creating an AWS instance:
If creating an Azure Virtual Machine or Virtual Machines:
Note:
Depending on the intended source and target for your data, your Lift and Shift™ implementation could be any combination of the above instances. If shifting your data from on-premise to the SoftNAS®, (the most common scenario) a VMware SoftNAS® instance would be connected to a SoftNAS instance on the platform of your choice (AWS or Azure). If shifting large amounts of data to another AWS region, you might create a SoftNAS® instance in each region. If migrating from AWS to Azure, your target SoftNAS Virtual Machine would be in Azure. Below are some of the supported configurations:
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Supported Target Node Storage
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VMware
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AWS
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EBS, S3
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VMware
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Azure
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Premium & Standard Disks
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AWS
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AWS
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EBS, S3
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AWS
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Azure
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Premium & Standard Disks
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Azure
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AWS
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EBS, S3
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Azure
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Azure
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Premium & Standard Disks
The following best performance minimum requirements should be kept in mind when configuring your instances for Lift and Shift™:
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AWS | 32 GB | 8 vCPU | High | m42.xlarge, c3.4xlarge, etc |
Azure | 28 GB | 8 cores | High | DS4v2, DS14v2, etc |
VMware | 32 GB | 8 vCPU | 1GBe minimum recommended | NA |
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