Creating Lift and Shift Source and Target Virtual Machines (Instances)
Lift and Shift™ is but a part of the SoftNAS® 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, 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:
The following best performance minimum requirements should be kept in mind when configuring your instances for Lift and Shift™:
| Memory | CPU | Network | Instance Size Recommendations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |