How to move data from FC drives to slower drives

Hello.

Are moving VMDK files?

Sorry, I should’ve been clearer…yes, I’m moving VMDK files as well as ‘shares’ that my users access from their Windows clients.

I just finished migrating a bunch of shares from a MSCS on Clariions to NetApps CIFS using PowerShell and Robocopy.  The new Robocopy is multithreaded (win7 & 2k8r2 I believe), so that worked well doing regularly scheduled differential copies up to the cut-over date to minimize downtime for users.  The VMDKs you should just sVmotion via vCenter.

Here is an example of 1 of the scripts I scheduled to run every 3 hrs or so, depending on how long the differentials took to complete, per volume.

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Set-Location 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Resource Kits\Tools'

.\robocopy.exe \\MyServer\MyShare \\MyNewShare\Location /SEC /MIR /MT:8 /NP /Z /R:01 /W:01 /XF "Thumbs.db" /XF ".DS_Store" /XF "._*" /XF "~$*.*" /XD ".TemporaryItems" /XD ".Trashes" /XD "~snapshot" /XD "System Volume Information" /XD "RECYCLER" >>C:\Scripts\results\SomeName-copy_report.txt

Set-Location C:\Scripts

.\results\SomeName-copy_report.txt

################

Let me know if I can help out with the script and good luck!

Best,

- @dboftlp

Here's a link to robocopy switches

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/07/robocopy-syntax-command-line-switches-and-examples/

I had to move my files recently in a VIC 2.0 / ESX 3.0.2 environment.

I was able to use the VMware Converter to accomplish this.  I will link below to the VMware KB article I found.

VMware KB 900

Guys - there are several, very easy ways to do this....

For EMC block devices, you could simply do a Virtual LUN action, which allows any LUN to change it's disk configuration or disk type non-disruptively.  It's cake, and has been in FLARE for a while.

For EMC NAS devices, there are several choices.  You can use FMA (which comes as a virtual appliance), which can migrate files automatically driven by policy and leave stubs in the original filesystem (good choice for file-level action), or you can use Celerra Replicator to replicate the filesystem to another disk pool (i.e. from a FC pool to an ATA-based pool).

Both are are simple, non-disruptive (and "included for free" in the storage subsystem!)

Of course if using VI3.5 or later, Storage VMotion is another simple and easy choice.

OK…I have an EMC Celerra NS20 and you’re telling me there’s a ‘Celerra Replicator’ utility that shipped w/ my Celerra? If so, how do I access this? Once I move the files from FC to ATA drives will I have to delete the data from original location?

Can anyone tell me where I can find the Celerra Replicator utility for my NS20?  I want to move data from my  (fast) FC drives to my (slow) SATA drives.