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:

• Creating Your Instance: VMware vSphere

If creating an AWS instance:

• Creating Your Instance: Amazon Web Services

If creating an Azure Virtual Machine or Virtual Machines:

• Creating Your Instance: Microsoft Azure

The following best performance minimum requirements should be kept in mind when configuring your instances for Lift and Shift™: