Data Mobility Service Templates; Allocate Volumes From Virtual Storage Machine: Service Details - HPE XP7 Automation Director User Manual

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Data mobility service templates

The following Automation Director Data Mobility service templates are provided with the software and are
preconfigured.
Allocate Volumes from Virtual Storage Machine
Allocates new volumes from a Virtual Storage Machine and reserves the same LDEV IDs on other
storage systems for data migration.
Export Virtual Storage Machine Configuration Across Sites
Provides a report showing configuration details of the Virtual Storage Machine across sites including
information regarding the High Availability pair for Data Mobility Services.
Create High Availability Pair for Migration
Creates a High Availability pair from a Virtual Storage Machine between two storage systems for data
migration.
Migrate Data Using High Availability Pair
Enables online data migration using a High Availability pair between two storage systems from a
Virtual Storage Machine.
Supported platforms
XP7 Storage supports Fibre Channel and iSCSI as the interface between the host and storage system.

Allocate Volumes from Virtual Storage Machine: Service details

This service enables the creation and allocation of volumes from a Virtual Storage Machine (VSM) while
reserving the same LDEV IDs on other storage systems.
The following service template details apply to the Allocate Volumes from Virtual Storage Machine service
template.
NOTE: Data Mobility service performance is affected by the XP7 Configuration Manager storage access
mode setting. We recommend that you use the "fcConnectionMode" setting to obtain higher performance.
For details, see "Appendix A. Changing the communication mode of the REST API server" in the HPE
XP7 Configuration Manager REST API Reference Guide.
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Virtual LDEV ID Starts From
Resource Group
Description
Specify where to search available
virtual LDEV IDs from the
specified virtual LDEV ID.
Specify where to search LDEV
IDs from the specified resource
group. If you don't specify a
resource group, the LDEV ID is
searched from the same resource
group as the source volume.
Specifying the resource group is
only supported for XP7.
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