Virtual Disk Migration And Disk Roaming; Disk Migration - Dell POWERVAULT MD3600F Owner's Manual

Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming

Virtual disk migration is moving a virtual disk or a hot spare from one array to
another by detaching the physical disks and re-attaching them to the new
array. Disk roaming is moving a physical disk from one slot to another on the
same array.

Disk Migration

You can move virtual disks from one array to another without taking the
target array offline. However, the disk group being migrated must be offline
before your perform disk migration. If the disk group is not offline prior to
migration, the source array holding the physical and virtual disks within the
disk group marks them as missing. However, the disk groups themselves
migrate to the target array.
An array can import a virtual disk only if it is in an optimal state. You can
move virtual disks that are part of a disk group only if all members of the disk
group are being migrated. The virtual disks automatically become available
after the target array has finished importing all the disks in the disk group.
When you migrate a physical disk or a disk group from one MD3600f array to
another, the MD3600f array you migrate to, recognizes any data structures
and/or metadata you had in place on the migrating MD3600f array. However,
if you are migrating from any device other than a MD3600f Series storage
array, the MD3600f array does not recognize the migrating metadata and that
data is lost. In this case, the MD3600f array initializes the physical disks and
marks them as unconfigured capacity.
NOTE:
Only disk groups and associated virtual disks with all member physical disks
present can be migrated from one storage array to another. it is recommended that
you only migrate disk groups that have all their associated member virtual disks in
an optimal state.
NOTE:
The number of physical disks and virtual disks that a storage array supports
limits the scope of the migration.
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