InfoScale™ Operations Manager 9.0 Add-ons User's Guide
- Section I. Storage Provisioning and Enclosure Migration Add-on 9.0
- Provisioning storage
- Creating a storage template using VxFS file systems
- Migrating volumes
- Provisioning storage
- Section II. Application Migration Add-on
- Introduction to Application Migration Add-on
- Creating and managing an application migration plan
- Understanding application migration operations
Migrating volumes by host
You can migrate volumes that reside on an enclosure to one or more other enclosures. This topic covers migration by host. You can also migrate by enclosure or disk group. Disk group migration is available only on the UNIX/Linux hosts.
To perform this task, your user group must be assigned the Admin role on the host or the Server perspective. The permission on the host may be explicitly assigned or inherited from a parent Organization.
Before you migrate volumes, review the planning information in the following:
In addition, verify the following:
If volumes have been set up for creating snapshots, unprepare those volumes.
Ensure that disks are provisioned on the new enclosures and are added to the disk group.
Ensure that the enclosures are added to Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager.
To migrate volumes by host
- In the Management Server console, go to the Server perspective, expand Solutions in the left pane, and click Storage Migration.
- In the Actions pane, click Migrate Volumes By Host.
- In the Migrate Volumes By Host wizard, specify a name and description for the migration task so that you can track the task status. Click Next.
- Select the host and then select the source enclosure. Click Next.
- Select one or more enclosures as the targets to which you want to migrate the volumes.
Under Select LUN Characteristics, specify the LUN requirements.
See Select LUN Characteristics options.
Click Next.
- Select the volumes to migrate. Verify the source and target layout. If you want to change the target layout, double-click the volume and select the new layout on the Change Layout window.
You can also choose from the following options:
Keep the same number of paths to the volume (the default) or set a minimum number of paths.
Optionally, select the check box to delete the original volumes after successfully migrating the volumes to the target enclosure.
Click Next.
- Choose one of the following:
Schedule the time of the migration.
To run immediately, select Run now.
Warning:
Review the information under Migration Summary before starting the migration. For more information, click Impact Analysis. A separate window opens to display impact analysis information regarding affected objects.
- When done reviewing the Migration Summary and Impact Analysis, click Previous if you want to go back and change anything. Otherwise, click Finish and close the confirmation window.
Scheduled migrations are listed on the Migration Status (By Schedule) tab. You can check on the status of a specific volume on the Migration Status (By Volume) tab.