HP EVA P6000 Bedienungsanleitung

Technical white paper HP EVA P6000 to HP 3PAR StoreServ Online Import Best Practices Data migration from HP EVA P6000 to HP 3PAR StoreServ systems

10 Figure 6. Validation of the destination HP 3PAR StoreServ system After the selection of the vdisks, one has to determine the characteristics of

11 Figure 7. Selection of the provisioning type and the CPG for each destination volume When done, the “Next” button moves the administrator to a s

12 Figure 8. Summary screen for the minimally disruptive migration of two vdisks presented to a Windows host When the migration is submitted, the w

13 Figure 9. The Online Import migration is paused for a SAN zoning operation Step four in the migration sequence differs for Windows and non-Windo

14 Figure 10. Zoning before the actual data transfer starts from the EVA P6000 to the HP 3PAR StoreServ system The migration wizard continues by cl

15 Figure 11. Clicking the “Start” button initiates the data transfer from the EVA P6000 to the HP 3PAR StoreServ system Once the data migration ha

16 The progress of the data transfer can also be monitored from within the HP 3PAR Management Console. Graphical historical information about the th

17 Figure 14. Numerical output for the throughput of the Peer links When the data migration is finished, the bar graphs in Figure 12 show 100% whil

18 check with the networking staff that TCP ports 2386, 5781, and 5783 or the custom ones can be opened on the firewalls in use. HP 3PAR Online Impo

19 two ports on the HP 3PAR StoreServ system. HP recommends uninstalling the HP MPIO DSM for EVA P6000 after all vdisks are migrated from the host a

2 Introduction Storage systems evolve rapidly these days on features and capacity. Adaptation to this technical evolution forces IT managers to mi

3 Use cases Online Import has a number of use cases that illustrate its business value. The most important use cases include: Zero downtime technolo

4 Figure 1. Migration options tree diagram for Online Import An Online Import migration is assisted by a software wizard. The wizard presents a seq

5 migrations on Windows and non-Windows systems, no zone changes and no reboots are required. After the required zone changes, if any, were made, th

6 Online Import supports thin and full-provisioned vdisks on the EVA P6000 as source volumes. Vdisks larger than 16 TB cannot be migrated since thi

7 In a second step, the source and destination systems are selected in the “Configuration” pane of the “Settings” section in P6000 Command View. Th

8 Figure 4. The wizard screen for picking a vdisk for migration By clicking the “Next” button, the wizard will run the rules engine for adding any

9 Figure 5. Addition of one vdisk by implicit selection By clicking the “Next” button, the wizard enters a screen where it does some more checking.