InfoScale™ Operations Manager 9.0 Add-ons User's Guide
- Section I. Storage Provisioning and Enclosure Migration Add-on 9.0
- Provisioning storage
- About storage provisioning
- About creating a storage template
- Creating a storage template using VxFS file systems
- Creating a storage template using NTFS file systems
- Creating a storage template using volumes
- Updating a storage template
- Provisioning storage
- Uploading storage templates
- Downloading storage templates
- Deleting storage templates
- Locking storage templates
- Unlocking storage templates
- Migrating volumes
- Provisioning storage
- Section II. Application Migration Add-on
- Introduction to Application Migration Add-on
- Creating and managing an application migration plan
- Supported versions and platforms
- User privileges
- Prerequisites for creating an application migration plan
- Prerequisites for migration to AWS
- VVR Replication: Environment variables used in application migration
- Creating an application migration plan
- Understanding user-defined tasks
- Understanding application migration operations
- Understanding the cleanup operation
- Understanding the tasks executed in each operation
- Validations performed before migration plan execution
- Executing the application migration plan
- Editing an application migration plan
- Deleting application migration plan(s)
- Exporting application migration plan(s)
- Importing application migration plan(s)
- Viewing historical runs
- Viewing properties of an application migration plan
- Application migration logs
- Index
About volume migration
Enterprises frequently need to move (migrate) storage volumes to new disk enclosures. Volume migration can be time-consuming and complex. Storage Provisioning and Enclosure Migration Add-on simplifies the complexities so that you can easily migrate volumes between disk enclosures.
Using the Management Server console, you can migrate volumes in the following ways.
See Migrating volumes by host.
See Migrating volumes by enclosure.
See Migrating volumes by disk group.
Note:
Volume migration is supported for managed hosts that run Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager (VRTSsfmh package) 5.x and later.
Before migrating volumes from one enclosure to the target disks in another enclosure, consider the following factors:
The volumes to be migrated
Storage Provisioning and Enclosure Migration Add-on migrates only the Storage Foundation-managed volumes.
A storage array might contain volumes that are managed by a different volume manager than Storage Foundation. It might also contain disks directly used by the hosts. The add-on cannot migrate such volumes and will ignore them.
The target enclosure
Ensure that the target enclosure is connected to the host to which the source volumes are connected. Both the disks that contain the volumes to be migrated and the target disks must be accessible from the same host.
The target disks where you want to migrate the volumes
The size and layout of selected volumes determine the number of target disks you need. Ensure that the size and number of the target disks are adequate to migrate the selected volumes. Ensure that you add the disks to the disk group. If you use the disk group migration wizard, you can add the disks using the migration wizard.
Volume migration stops if the host shuts down while migrating the selected volumes to the specified target disks. However, it does not result in loss of data. You can start a new volume migration case to migrate the remaining volumes.
Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager lets the storage administrator define LUN classifications. LUN classifications can specify the LUN characteristics, such as RAID levels and replication, that match the SLAs for the applications that are using the volumes. If LUN classifications are defined, you can use them to determine the target LUNs when you set up storage migration.