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  • 1.  Migration form Storwize V5000 to FlashSystem 5030 & FlashCopy

    Posted Thu June 10, 2021 10:34 AM

    Hi,

     

    We are migrating from Storwize V5000 to FlashSystem 5030 and want it to be non-disruptive so going to use LCM disk mirroring.

     

    ·        Prod at site A

    ·        DR & test at site B

    ·        Cross site SAN & Network

    ·        Currently Prod data has FlashCopy to target volumes on Test system at opposite site (So same model at both sites)

     

    We will migrate Test first, then DR and then test to FlashSystem 5030's sitting in same rack as their Storwize counterpart.

     

    My questions are:

    ·        When we migrate the data from V5000 to new FS5030 can we change the V5000 FlashCopy target from a V5000 to the FS5030 so we don't have to cut-over all systems at same time.  I plan to add it to our pre-migration testing, but wanted to know if any gotchas or if it won't work even.

    ·        Also we need to demonstrate the FS5030 will provide the same or greater performance, are there any free tools that will help, we are using AIX LPARS, we thought a simple DD copy with small and then large block size.

     

    Any thoughts welcome

     

     

    John Higgins

    Customer Solutions Architect

    Cloud Transformation and Development

    Application & Multi-Cloud Services

    Mobile:   +44 (0)7824 343588

     

     

     

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  • 2.  RE: Migration form Storwize V5000 to FlashSystem 5030 & FlashCopy

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu June 10, 2021 10:54 AM
    As you are using AIX LPARs, the best alternative to make it transparently is use LVM mirroring in the partitions.

    Regards,
    Claiton

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    Claiton Zanella
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  • 3.  RE: Migration form Storwize V5000 to FlashSystem 5030 & FlashCopy

    Posted Fri June 11, 2021 03:12 AM
    Hi John,

    regarding your question:
    ... can we change the V5000 FlashCopy target from a V5000 to the FS5030 ...

    It won't work this way, since FlashCopy mappings between a source and a target vdisk only can exist within the same system ("cluster").
    For your new FlashSystem 5030 (5035, maybe?) most likely will be configured as an independent new system, FlashCopy mappings will have to be recreated.
    Also, if the currently used FlashCopy targets in the V5000 are being refreshed regularly, there would not be much use of migrating the FC target vdisks to the new system.
    As Claiton mentioned, a host based migration using AIX LVM mirror should be a good choice.
    Using the Spectrum Virtualize migration feature would impose at least a brief interruption when switching the host attachment over from old V5000 to new FS5035.

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    Christian Schroeder
    IBM SpecV Storage Support with Passion
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  • 4.  RE: Migration form Storwize V5000 to FlashSystem 5030 & FlashCopy

    Posted Fri June 11, 2021 03:47 AM

    Hi,

     

    I did mention at start we are going to use LVM mirroring so we have zero downtime for migrations.

    I did miss FlashCopy relationship re-creation for new system, so thanks for pointing that out.

     

    We also going form SSD/SAS/SATA and multiple disk groups to a single DRAID6 (13 SSD 10+P+Q) all flash,  so was wondering if need some tuning around queue depth or turning it off altogether for SSD.

     

     

     

    John

     

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  • 5.  RE: Migration form Storwize V5000 to FlashSystem 5030 & FlashCopy

    Posted Mon June 14, 2021 10:30 AM
    Hi 

    John, according to your initial statement,i agree with you in this case is better use LVM to migrate LUNs. Less downtime.
    The Christian mail is clear about FC. 
    In addition, I can only remember you that if you are using SDDPCM driver in your hosts, in Spectrum Virtualize V8.4 it is withdrawn. You must migrate all the hosts to AIXPCM. In the IBM Support site there is a properly guide to implemented this migration.

    Best Regards

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    Humberto Sosa
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  • 6.  RE: Migration form Storwize V5000 to FlashSystem 5030 & FlashCopy

    Posted Tue June 15, 2021 02:40 AM
    for possible migration options guidance, see Redbook "Block Storage Migration in Open Environments"

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