Creating Lift and Shift Source and Target Nodes

Lift and Shift™ is but a part of the SoftNAS dSphere™ 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 dSphere stack is unlocked via license key. However, it will first be made available as a beta in the current release (3.6). As dSphere 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.

To create your VMware (on-premise) instance:

• Creating Your Instance: VMware vSphere

If creating an AWS instance:

• Creating Your Instance: Amazon Web Services

If creating an Azure instance or instances:

• Creating Your Instance: Microsoft Azure

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 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 would be in Azure. The following minimum requirements should be kept in mind when configuring your instances for Lift and Shift™: