topic Re: migration from SAN to NAS in Network and Storage Protocols

migration from SAN to NAS

netappnasadmin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:20:53 GMT

Hello folks,

can you please answer to this question:

i have filer fas2020 in SAN enviornment(iscsi) with 5 volumes in which LUN's are carved in each respective volume & now i want to move these 5 volumes to NAS environment on fas3020 & i want create the shares & NFS for the respective volumes.

can this be accomplished using vol copy..?

can you please answer & correct me.

Thanks in advance...

Re: migration from SAN to NAS

adamfox — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:02:07 GMT

No. You will need to do a host based migration. If you vol copy the volume you will just get another volume with LUNs.

-- Adam Fox

Re: migration from SAN to NAS

BrendonHiggins — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:04:50 GMT

The filer does not know what is inside the LUN as it is managed by the host. Have a look at robocopy or xcopy to move the files and keep permissions.

Bren

Re: migration from SAN to NAS

radek_kubka — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:53:55 GMT

I've got a strange feeling we may be looking here at VMware environment & moving iSCSI VMFS to NFS share.

IF that's the case then Storage VMotion may help (can be done even online), but arguably it will be another form of host-based migration (IO goes via ESX node).

Regards,
Radek

Re: migration from SAN to NAS

netappnasadmin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:36:24 GMT

Thanks Fox,brenda & radek I go with Host based migration.

Thanks