Moving containers to new storage

[ivandem]

Hey Guys,

We are adding a new SAN to SP and need to move the old data to the new SAN. I know one way to do it is as follows.

1. Define the storage to windows and create new directories
2. Define the new directories to the storage pool
3. Set the old directories as read only
4. run the "move container" command for every container within the directory.

And 4 is where the problem lays., that would be a huge undertaking to complete. Is there a better way to move the containers? Does anybody know how to script this?

Windows server. SP 8.1.4.

Thanks,
John

 

[RecoveryOne]

Take a peek at my post from a while ago:
https://adsm.org/forum/index.php?threads/move-container.32083/#post-132867
Note its a very very quick and dirty script but worked for my needs.

Fire up a *nix vm and put the admin client on it, install ksh93 and export your container volumes to a text file and let it run.

Sorry, my powershell/batch scripting is worse than my ksh

 

[Trident]

Make new directories available, put old directories to READONLY. All new data will be written to new directories, and the old ones will expire slowly. After a week or longer, then run for each container
move container XXXX defrag=yes (this will move only the active data in each container).

-= Trident =-

 

[RecoveryOne]

Looks like defrag=yes is a new option with 8.1.4. Very nice! Sorry ivandem, my TSM is still on 7.1.7, so posted what I know worked in the past

 

[ivandem]

Thanks for all of the responses, guys. I appreciate the input.