Any one have experience in migrating celerra to NetApp

why would somebody want to migrate from Celerra to an inferior platform like NetApp . You will need to rely on host based tools (emcopy/robocopy for windoz and rsync for *nix)

If you're on 5.6 code or later, you can consider using NDMPcopy, which is supported by both EMC and NetApp.  Basically, you run an NDMP copy from the Celerra to the NetApp filer, and rely on NDMP processes to "backup" and "restore' file permissions on each side.  I would not rely on this to for iSCSI volumes or to restore Windows permissions - I'd only use it for NFS-only filesystems, either with local UID/GID or with NIS, etc.

Search the forums and you'll see a couple of informative posts on it.

Karl

Thanks Dynamo and Carl both.

Yeah thats strangn why they would want to go to NetApp  -  some in Financial industry are so loyal to NetApp for NAS  even though  they are primary an EMC shop when it comes to  SAN.

Well we got to do what we got to ( told to  ) do .

Hi Karl,

while the NDMP protocol itself is a standard the data format of the backup it uses is not.

Every company uses its own (native) format there - NetApp dump, EMC PAX, ...

So you cannot just restore a NDMP backup from a different architecture or ndmpcopy between.

For ndmpcopy NetApp -> Celerra EMC has a utility that converts the data stream online - but not for the other direction.

regards

Rainer

What is the utility that EMC uses to convert the datastream online?

I want to use NDMPCopy to migrate from a NetApp to a Celerra.

It is part of CTA (Cloud Tiering Appliance)