topic Data Migration - IBM to NetApp in EF & E-Series, SANtricity, and Related Plug-ins

Data Migration - IBM to NetApp

AsifGanai — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:15:12 GMT

Hi Team,

My name is Asif Ali, and I am from a partner based in Bahrain. We have a client looking at the possibility of replacing their existing IBM with NetApp E-2824. Their IBM serves data to production which includes few VM’s and Physical Servers like Domain Controller, Exchange, MySQL, Oracle etc. running Windows 2008 and later OS.

I need to know what migration tools can be used here, if any.

Please note their IBM is ISCSI based.

Regards

Asif Ali

Re: Data Migration - IBM to NetApp

ahmadm — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 12:38:06 GMT

Hi Asif Ali,

Starting with 11.70.1 (supported on E2824), E-Series introduced remote storage volumes feature. This feature is designed to allow users to import data from an existing remote storage device onto an E-Series volume with minimal downtime. It works by establishing an iSCSI connection between the existing remote storage and the new E-Series storage array.

For more details about this feature, please check out below resources:

https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/28697-tr-4893-deploy.pdf&v=20216101739

https://docs.netapp.com/ess-11/topic/com.netapp.doc.ssm-sys-remote/home.html

Re: Data Migration - IBM to NetApp

elementx — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:18:35 GMT

In addition to Remote Storage Volumes, I'd consider vMotion (Storage) for the VMs.

Re: Data Migration - IBM to NetApp

AsifGanai — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:08:05 GMT

Thank you.