SAN migration

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Good morning Edugeekers....

 

I have a question for you and I’m hoping that others may have come across a similar problem and found a workable solution.

 

I’m in the process of decommissioning an Equallogic and a HP LeftHand SAN and need to move the date from both these to a new HPE Nimble.

 

Now, normally, I would use the Migration in Hyper-V if they were vhdx disks on the SANs, however this is not the case; they are iSCSI direct attached LUNs on the SAN that are presented as disks. These disks are attached to a File Server cluster

 

We have thought about utilising our backup solution as a restore to the new volume, cut over to the new volume and then run a final backup/restore to get the files up to date.

 

Whilst this method works, it’s very time consuming.

 

I was wondering if anyone had come across and used any 3rd party software that would allow for storage level replications between the SANs?

 

Ironically, the migration between SANs was easy as the replication was in place and I just needed to handover to the new SAN!

 

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