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

[NAYABSK]

Hi Experts,

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

[parisi · Accepted solution]

To migrate SAN from EMC to NetApp (congrats on making the correct decision ), 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

[parisi]

One addition to this.

For NAS, we now have XCP to do rapid migrations:

https://xcp.netapp.com/

https://whyistheinternetbroken.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/xcp-ludicrous-speed/

https://whyistheinternetbroken.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/xcp-smbcifs-support-available/