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December 21st, 2022 14:00

Migrate from Physical Server from NetAPP to Virtual on Unity

Hi,

I have a few physical servers with SAN storage from NetApp. I need to migrate these over to virtual. The P2V tool won't work. Just checking on what I can use to successfully migrate these over to Unity. Any help would greatly be appreated.

Thanks,

  • DellEMCSupport

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    Posted December 21st, 2022 22:00

    As far as I know, there is no easy instant way to migrate physical NetApp SAN storage to virtual Unity (Unity VSA)..

     

    Probably, one of the easiest ways is

     

    1. Deploy a Unity VSA
    2. Use SANCopy pull from the Unity VSA to migrate NetApp SAN storage (LUNs)

     

    [FYI]
    Dell EMC Unity: Migration Technologies A Detailed Review P.14 3.4 Sell EMC Unity SAN Copy PULL section explains how it works.

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    Posted July 12th, 2023 03:00

    Here are a few options that you can use to migrate your physical servers with SAN storage from NetApp to Unity:

    • SAN Copy Pull. This is a feature of Dell EMC Unity that allows you to migrate block data from a supported storage system to a Dell EMC Unity system. This is a good option if you want to migrate your data without having to take your physical servers offline.
    • VMware Storage vMotion. This is a feature of VMware vSphere that allows you to migrate virtual machines between hosts. You can use Storage vMotion to migrate your virtual machines from your physical servers to a Dell EMC Unity system.
    • Datadobi DobiMigrate. This is a third-party tool that can be used to migrate physical servers and virtual machines to Dell EMC Unity. DobiMigrate is a good option if you need to migrate your data to Unity, but you don't want to use SAN Copy Pull or Storage vMotion.