In order to create a solution customized to your organization's individual needs, there is a fair bit of information you will need to gather, and a number of decisions that will need to be made. This primer is intended to help you identify the information needed to make informed decisions for your SoftNAS Cloud deployment with Veeam backups to the cloud. To guide you towards the solution that is right for you, the checklist below will help you record the key data required when you start your actual deployment of SoftNAS Cloud in AWS as a repository for Veeam backup data. 

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For each section of the checklist, additional information is provided in a linked section below. These informative articles can be used to help you make deployment decisions or create prerequisite resources that will be needed for your deployment.

Deployment Checklist:

The following document serves as a checklist, and as such is designed so that our users can copy and paste to a separate document (or export), and mark up as necessary. We recommend that the checklist be used to record all data to be used in your deployment for easy reference during both planning and your actual deployment. 

1. Deployment: Determine your deployment type. SoftNAS supports two different deployment types. Select one of the below:
   
   
   • Premise to AWS Cloud
   • AWS Cloud to AWS Cloud
     
     
2. AWS Account: Record your AWS account credentials (how to create an AWS account listed below)
   
   
   • Account ID or Alias:
   • IAM User Name:
   • Password:
     
     
3. AWS Identity and Access Management: Ensure you have set up your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) configuration to use with SoftNAS Cloud and record the IAM Role you will use below:
   
   
   • IAM Policy and Role created:
   • IAM Role Name:
     
     
4. SoftNAS Cloud Offering: Determine what SoftNAS Cloud offering you use for your deployment. Select one of the below SoftNAS Cloud Offerings:
   
   
   • SoftNAS Cloud® Essentials 1TB
   • SoftNAS Cloud® Essentials 10TB
   • SoftNAS Cloud® Essentials 20TB
   • SoftNAS Cloud® Essentials 50TB
   • SoftNAS Cloud® Essentials 1TB+MMS Consumption
   • SoftNAS Cloud® Essentials BYOL
   • Other non-Essentials
   
   
5. Networking: Understand the premise data center firewall or other network changes required to access SoftNAS Cloud in AWS as your Veeam repository:
   
   
   • Data center networking and firewall changes requested and complete
6. AWS Instance Size: Select the AWS instance size for your deployment.
   Select one of the below:
   
   
   • i3.xlarge
   • i3.2xlarge
   • i3.4xlarge
   • i3.8xlarge
   • Other:
   
   
   
7. AWS Storage Selection: Select the type of AWS storage to use for your backup data in AWS
   
   Select one of the below
   • AWS S3 Standard (Recommended for Veeam and SoftNAS Cloud Essentials)
   • Other

1. Add a certification to your SoftNAS Cloud and Veeam deployment:
   
   
   • Add the certification: 
   • Adding/Changing Certifications for your Veeam/SoftNAS Backup Solution

1. AWS VPC: Record the name of the VPC that you will use for your SoftNAS Cloud deployment
   
   
   • VPC Name:

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2. 10.  Data Transfer Protocol and AWS Instance Security Group: You can select to use NFS or CIFs/SMB as the protocol to allow Veeam to transfer backup data to the SoftNAS Cloud repository

• Selected Select one of the below
  • NFS
  • CIFs/SMB

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