File_System_Migration

Site Preparation
❑ Migrate data
❑ Add the Data Mover to the network.
❑ Prepare file systems for migration.
❑ Prepare source file servers for migration.
❑ Connect source file servers to the VNX.
❑ Export the file systems so clients can access them on the VNX.
❑ Run the server_cdms -start command to complete data
migration.
❑ Postmigration
❑ Ensure that all remaining source data is migrated to the VNX.
❑ Verify that migration has completed.
❑ Convert the migrated file system to a UxFS.
❑ Document the migration.
❑ Verify completion to customer acceptance criteria.
❑ Obtain customer acceptance.
❑ Close the EMC Customer Service call.
CIFS ❑ Planning
❑ Summarize installed hardware.
❑ Evaluate migration issues.
❑ Perform analysis and detailed planning of the data migration.
❑ Premigration setup
❑ Install Perl scripts, Microsoft Word, and Excel 2000 on a
Windows client.
❑ Copy the EMC premigration utilities onto the Windows client.
❑ Evaluate the source file server directory structure for files and
directories that might be excluded from the migration.
❑ Identify any high-priority files on all drives from the source
file server, and create the optional include file.
❑ Back up the source file server.
48 VNX File System Migration Version 2.0 for NFS and CIFS User Guide 7.1