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Migrating CIFS via VPLEX
Currently I have a VNX5700 connected to a VPLEX local. I will be adding a new VNX7600 to the same VPLEX local and performe a migration of the data. My question is can CIFS be migrated using VPLEX data mobility without any impact to production? Block level can.
ThomDaleyPPI
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May 22nd, 2016 23:00
To my knowledge no because VPLEX works only on a block level.
wshah2
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May 23rd, 2016 15:00
Yes just found out that only way you can do it using VPLEX is if the shares are presented off a server. But if the cifs server is on a datamover than you cannot. For this the best solution is to use VNX Replicator, may need about 30mins of downtime to cutover.