What is the process to move from SoftNAS 4 to SoftNAS 5?
- To move from SoftNAS 4 to SoftNAS 5, the first step is to open a ticket with our Buurst Support team to plan and schedule time to have them assist you with your move. The Support team is here to help you ensure a quick and successful move to SoftNAS 5.
- The Buurst Support team has a simple-to-use tool to automate the move to SoftNAS 5 that is based on years of experience with manually performing such migrations to new SoftNAS instances and VMs.
- The process is straight forward using the tool:
- Schedule a maintenance window to ensure all activity to the existing SoftNAS servers is quiesced. The tool we use will also double-check that the system is in a state ready to move to SoftNAS.
- Once the existing SoftNAS 4 systems are quiesced, the disk devices attached to SoftNAS 4 systems will be detached.
- New SoftNAS 5 systems will be started in the cloud and the configuration data from the SoftNAS 4 systems will be moved to the new SoftNAS 5 systems.
- The detached disk devices will be attached to the new SoftNAS 5 systems (no manual copy of the data to new storage devices is required. It is rather a detachment of disk devices from SoftNAS 4 and attachment of the same disk devices to SoftNAS 5.
- If SoftNAS was running in an HA environment, the HA configuration is re-established on the new SoftNAS 5 environment, including moving the virtual IP, so existing NFS and CIFS mount point continuity is maintained with no unmount/remount required by clients.
- All the details of the process will be explained to you by our Buurst Support team to ensure you clearly understand the process in the planning phase of the effort