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Easy and Reliable way to Migrate SAN and NAS from EMC VNX to Netapp C-mode ?

NAYABSK
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Hi Experts,

 

Can suggest which would be the best and reliable way to migrate NAS & SAN form EMC VNX to NETAPP C-Dot

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parisi
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To migrate SAN from EMC to NetApp (congrats on making the correct decision Smiley Wink), consider Foreign LUN import:

 

https://whyistheinternetbroken.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/fli-tr-4442/

 

To migrate NAS data from EMC to NetApp, there are multiple options.

 

For CIFS, Robocopy might make sense:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx

 

For NFS, use rsync (and ask your SE about XCP):

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-rsync-to-sync-local-and-remote-directories-on-a-vps

 

 

Some more to read:

 

http://www.netapp.com/US/MEDIA/TR-4052.PDF

 

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parisi
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To migrate SAN from EMC to NetApp (congrats on making the correct decision Smiley Wink), consider Foreign LUN import:

 

https://whyistheinternetbroken.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/fli-tr-4442/

 

To migrate NAS data from EMC to NetApp, there are multiple options.

 

For CIFS, Robocopy might make sense:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx

 

For NFS, use rsync (and ask your SE about XCP):

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-rsync-to-sync-local-and-remote-directories-on-a-vps

 

 

Some more to read:

 

http://www.netapp.com/US/MEDIA/TR-4052.PDF

 

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