There are three ways to migrate data from PS to SC.
Not in any order:
1.) Thin Import
2.) XPR Replication (Cross Platform Replication The PS Storage needs to be on 10.0.x firmware)
3.) Storage vMotion.
#3 is one that can be done live. The other two would require some downtime.
Basically you just need an ESXi server that can see both the old and new storage. Then you can migrate VMs to the new SAN. I suspect the new storage is configured for 10GbE so this should be pretty easy to do.
You don't need to interlink the old PS iSCSI SAN and the new iSCSI SAN for SC.
Option 1 and 2 would require access from the PS iSCSI network to the new SC iSCSI network.
You can also open a support case and they will help you with this as well.
Here are some links with info on PS and SC storage together
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Hello,
Are all your volumes on VMFS Datastores?
There are three ways to migrate data from PS to SC.
Not in any order:
1.) Thin Import
2.) XPR Replication (Cross Platform Replication The PS Storage needs to be on 10.0.x firmware)
3.) Storage vMotion.
#3 is one that can be done live. The other two would require some downtime.
Basically you just need an ESXi server that can see both the old and new storage. Then you can migrate VMs to the new SAN. I suspect the new storage is configured for 10GbE so this should be pretty easy to do.
You don't need to interlink the old PS iSCSI SAN and the new iSCSI SAN for SC.
Option 1 and 2 would require access from the PS iSCSI network to the new SC iSCSI network.
You can also open a support case and they will help you with this as well.
Here are some links with info on PS and SC storage together
https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln310094/ps-sc-series-coexistence?lang=en
https://downloads.dell.com/solutions/storage-solution-resources/PS-Series-SC-Series-Sharing-Linux-Host-iSCSI-SAN-Dell-2016-(2032-A-BP-INF).pdf
Regards,
Don