Migrating a volume

A volume can be migrated through the Migration Plan window.

Prerequisites

• You must have the Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role to perform this task.

• The volumes meet all requirements as source and target volume candidates.

To migrate a volume:

1. Open the Migrate Volumes window in one of the following methods.

When you use Command Suite:

• Expand the Storage System tree in the Resource tab. Right-click Volume under the local storage system, and then select System GUI. Click Other Tasks > Migration Volumes in the LDEV tab.

When you use Storage Navigator:

• Select Logical Devices from the Storage Systems tree. Click More Actions > Migrate Volumes in the LDEVs tab.

• Click Actions > Logical Device > Migration > Migrate Volumes.

2. In the Selected Source Volume table, click Select.

3. In the window, select the radio button of the migration volumes.

4. Click OK.

The selected volume is displayed in Selected Source Volume table.

5. From Available Target Volumes table, select the radio button of the target volume.

6. Click Add.

The information for the created migration plan is displayed in Selected Migration Plans table.

7. Click Finish.

8. In the Confirmation window, enter the Task Name.

9. Click Apply.

If Go to tasks window for status is checked when you click Apply, the task window appears.

 If any of the following operations is performed on a Volume Migration source volume during migration, the volume migration process stops:

• ShadowImage operation that changes the volume status to COPY(SP)/COPY or PSUS(SP)/PSUS.

• Universal Replicator operation that changes the volume status to something other than PSUS

• TrueCopy operation that changes the volume status to something other than PSUS/PSUE/PAIR