Moving SAN BOOT Volume from one storage to another

[hareshn]

Hello,

We are planning to replace our netapp FAS6200 to new one FAS6200 storage (same model but bigger capacity). Question is our Vmware host bootvolume is kept on the old Storage, and that will also get moved or migrated to the new storage server.

Netapp suggested to use Vol move command for all the luns and Datastore cluster. As they said it will not affect anything on our production host and it does not required any down time. is anybody has done this kind of migration ?

what precaution we should take or any problem we may see during this activity ?

Thanks in advance.

haresh n

[rachelsg]

Hi

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https://communities.vmware.com/thread/473043.

[markdjones82]

Haresh,

  I am not familiar with Vol move, but whenever we have had to do frame migrations on EMC we always chose to have new data luns presented and storage vmotion over.  It takes a little longer, but you don't have to worry about any downtime from a guest perspective.

As far as boot luns, you can evacuate a host, copy the boot lun to the new frame, and then re-present the lun.  This would take care of that.

I am not sure how netapp would have no downtime for the guests with a backend copy over, but maybe it is possible.