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April 17th, 2012 10:00

Migrate device to smaller device on same VMAX

Is there a way to migrate a device (LUN) to a smaller device (LUN) on the same VMAX? I looked at Open replicator which allows migration to smaller device with the -force_copy option but it will only work between storage systems (we only have the one VMAX locally) and PPME will not allow migrating to a smaller device at all.

Basically I created a 2TB TDEV device and used PPME to migrate a 1.5TB drive to it, then extended the partition to 1750GB (the application group only needed 250GB more for now, and I left the remaining space available for later expansion). This device is also migrated via Recoverpoint, but unfortunately the remote splitters do not work with any device over 2TB (hardware limit) - which I didnt find out until AFTER the migration was committed. Apparently the device I created was a few blocks too large! So now I need to move the data to a smaller device (LUN) with minimal downtime so I can get it replicated via Recoverpoint.

Any suggestions??