- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Revision history
- PowerFlex overview
- System requirements and product limits
- Architecture
- System
- MDM cluster
- Virtual IP addresses
- Storage definitions
- Storage pools
- Acceleration pools
- Data layout
- Volumes
- Naming PowerFlex objects
- NVMe over TCP overview
- PowerFlex file services
- Replication
- Replication peer systems
- Storage data replicator
- Journal
- Replication consistency group
- Replication pairs
- Recovery point objective
- Replication I/O flow
- Replication auto-provision
- Replication initial copy
- Activating or terminating a replication consistency group
- Pause replication
- Using replicated volumes
- Accessing target volumes
- Setting up replication
- Dell APEX Block Storage
- Protection and load balancing
- Cache
- Networking
- SDC connection monitoring
- SMART hardware monitoring
- Snapshots
- Performance
- Migrating volumes
- Implementing PowerFlex
- Additional functions
- Maintenance
- PowerFlex management
- Configure direct attached storage
Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x Technical Overview
Migration to NVMe over TCP
PowerFlex provides the option to migrate workloads from SDC to NVMe over TCP on ESXi:
- Online migration using Storage vMotion (VMFS only)
- The standard way of moving storage is with Storage vMotion. Storage vMotion also supports switching protocols by migrating to a new DataStore. For more information, see the Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x Administration Guide.
- Offline migration (VMFS only)
- There is a new option for converting an existing VMFS datastore from SCSI (SDC) to NVMe over TCP without having all the data over the network. The offline migration steps are covered in the following KB article: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000213232.
NOTE:There are not standard ways to migrate Linux environments, ESXi clusters, and RDMs.
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