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February 15, 2022

PowerStore Intra-Cluster Migration

A powerful feature of Dell Technologies' PowerStore array is the ability to non-disruptively move data from one appliance to another within a cluster. The primary volumes as well as any snapshots will move as part of the migration. This video demonstrates the intra-cluster migration functionality and a snapshot restore once on the target system.

This demo will show off PowerStore's intra-cluster data migration functionality and snapshot portability. The environment consists of:

  • PowerStore cluster
    • PowerStore 5000T
    • PowerStore 500T
  • Two ESXi hosts
    • One Windows Server 2016 VM with two 75GB drives presented by PowerStore
    • fio workload generation utility running against the migrating LUNs
  • Two MDS-9706 Fibre Channel directors

It walks through creating a demo snapshot, migrating the data from the 5000T to the 500T, and a snapshot restore on the target array, the PowerStore 500T.  

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