Transferring storage, Part I

There are a number of things that need to be considered before making this move.

Figure around 60GB per hour for the migration. Your mileage may vary depending on the host bus adapters used, operating system and system platforms involved. The setup is pretty straightforward on Solaris, especially with the VERITAS file system. NT and Win2k are a bit different due to the signatures on the disk. This is even more important if you are using MSCS clusters on NT or Win2k.

Here is a sample procedure to migrate NT Cluster data between different storage vendors? arrays. This procedure assumes the LUNs are pre-configured in the new array, and set to the same size and raid type for the new array. Also, any SAN zoning has to take into account the new WWN of the HBA used for the move.

This procedure is useful for migrating data in an MSCS environment. In a two-node cluster, nodeB acts as the migration server for moving the data to the new storage array.

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