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  • 1.  Migration from V9000 to FlashSystem

    Posted Tue May 28, 2024 05:50 AM

    Hello,

    My customer is looking to migrate frem V9000 to an FS system.

    Obviously V9K has SVC so the most obvious way to migrate seems to be:

    • Ensure FS is set to Storage layer
    • Zone FS to V9K
    • Volume copy existing volumes from V9K to FS
    • Remove FS zoning from from V9K
    • Zone and map hosts to FS

    I've had issues in the past where IBM wouldn't support certain SVC configs or features as it's a V9000 and not just an SVC with Flash storage. So, is this a supported approach for V9000?

    I recall using the migratetoimage command  when V7000 first came out when migrating a customer from SVC to V7000. Any thoughts on this approach?



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    Glenn Robinson
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  • 2.  RE: Migration from V9000 to FlashSystem

    IBM Champion
    Posted Tue May 28, 2024 06:30 AM

    I prefer to use "non-disruptive volume migration" instead.

    what is the codelevel of your v9k?



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    Nezih Boyacioglu
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  • 3.  RE: Migration from V9000 to FlashSystem

    Posted Tue May 28, 2024 08:22 AM

    V9Ks are on 8.2.1.6 which is the highest available for the 9848-AE2s.



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    Glenn Robinson
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  • 4.  RE: Migration from V9000 to FlashSystem

    IBM Champion
    Posted Tue May 28, 2024 08:33 AM
    Edited by Nezih Boyacioglu Tue May 28, 2024 08:33 AM

    8.2 does not support the non-disruptive volume migration method :/

    what is the operation system on the hosts?



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    Nezih Boyacioglu
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  • 5.  RE: Migration from V9000 to FlashSystem

    Posted Tue May 28, 2024 08:38 AM
    SLES.

    If we have to take the LPARs down then that's fine.

    Glenn Robinson
    IBM Power Systems and Storage Specialist
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