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July 17th, 2013 08:00
Migrating from Storage Foundation to Windows
We are in need to migrate off one of our current Storage Foundation system disks to Windows disks. We are building a brand new Windows 2008 R2 failover cluster and will not be using storage foundation with this cluster. The plan is to just migrate the disk from the current server to the new server on the SAN side of things. Does anyone have a good method for doing this?
Our preference is to do this at the block level if it can be done and not the file level. I was just wondering if anyone has had past experiences with migrating from Storage Foundation to Windows disks and what methods they might have used that were successful.
We are using Veritas Storage Foundation HA 5.0 Rollup Path 1A.
dynamox
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July 17th, 2013 09:00
i am not sure you can do that using block tools because right now everything is encapsulated inside of Vertias, might have to robocopy it over.
Maliboo74
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July 17th, 2013 10:00
I agree. Using a block level migration will ensure your target disks are Veritas disks. You may also want to consider Open Migrator so long as your source disks aren't Veritas Dynamic disks in a Microsoft cluster.
maj1683
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July 17th, 2013 14:00
Okay I know my co-worker swears he did it before somehow through the Veritas software using mirroring without writing a signature to the disk. I have yet to find out how he would have done this, but I'm pretty sure that is how I remember him migrating the disk to a new server without Veritas SF installed.