Lift and Shift™ is but a part of the SoftNAS Cloud® Platinum Beta stack stack, and as such, is part of an integrated whole. Creating an instance of SoftNAS Cloud® provides the basis for not only Lift and Shift™ functionality, but also for UltraFast™ and the remaining components. Once formally released, the full Platinum stack is unlocked via license key. However, it will first be made available as a beta in the current release (3.6). As Platinum Beta functionality is included with your standard SoftNAS Cloud® image, the installation process will be exactly the same as previously documented according to the relevant platform. 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:
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If creating an Azure instance Virtual Machine or instancesVirtual Machines:
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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 cloud, (the most common scenario) a VMware SoftNAS Cloud® instance would be connected to a SoftNAS Cloud 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 Cloud® instance in each region. If migrating from AWS to Azure, your target SoftNAS Cloud instance Virtual Machine would be in Azure. Below are some of the supported configurations:
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