Storage Data Migration flow
If you recently purchased new storage hardware and need to migrate servers over then we can help. We have developed a set of scripts that can gather a list of active servers from either the array or the SAN logs. Then if the servers are accessible the script captures the data required from the list of servers. The output of the script is a clear excel document with necessary information required for the migration such as Compatibility with new arrays/What needs to be updated before we can start the migrations and for servers that are ready to move it gives the current storage/volume group information. Since all the data is in one place its easy for project managers to group the servers and assign them to appropriate resources.
When the data migration is scheduled the script takes in the server details and creates the target zones, storage disks on the arrays and provisions the target disks. This in turn kicks off another script that does all the necessary validations like server load/multi pathing configuration/compatibility with target arrays. Once validation is good the script will proceed with the migration. After the data has been migrated the script halts and waits for the user to validate everything is good.
Once validated the user executes the next script that does the clean up of old storage from the server, removes the old zones and finishes off by removing the zones on switches and schedules the storage disk deletion after 1 Week.
As an example below is the screen capture of the script in action performing the initial zoning on a Cisco switch.