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Notice that the WIN2KAPPL (H: disk) comes from the 2105-800 (ESS_800) machine.
6) The first task is to find the newly attached LUN from the ESS_800. So under My Work we click on
WORK WITH MANAGED DISKS and click on MANAGED DISKS and the following panel is
displayed:
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Notice that there are 3 pages of Managed Disks. We look for the new LUN and dont find it, so we continue
with step 7.
8) A good practice we recommend is to rename the disks so they make more sense to your installation, in our
example, MDISK5 will be renamed using the function RENAME AN MDISK. The new name is
WIN2K_IMAGE.
NOTE: ALL MANAGED DISKS HAVE TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH A MANAGED DISK GROUP,
BUT WE SUGGEST THAT YOU CREATE AN MDG WITHOUT ANY DISKS AND NAME IT
MY_IMAGES_GROUP OR ANY OTHER NAME THAT MAKES SENSE IN YOUR
ENVIRONMENT.
See Appendix item 5 (COMMENTS ON MDG FOR IMAGE MODE VDISKS)
for a step-by-step process to create this Managed Disk Group.
MOST PEOPLE ALREADY HAVE MANAGED DISK GROUPS DEFINED, IN
THAT CASE, PROCEED WITH THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS.
The flag Let the system choose a preferred node and I/O group should be checked (that is the default).
In our case, the defaults were used, which are the correct choice in most cases.
The field SELECT THE MANAGED DISK GROUP will allow us to associate the vDisk we are
creating with a specific managed disk group. In our lab we already had several Managed Disk Groups,
so we selected from them the ESS800_GROUP,and clicked Next.
NOTE: When creating an IMAGE MODE vDisk, we dont use storage from the selected MDG, but just
pick the extent size associated with that pool (Managed Disk Group). The extent size will be important
when our IMAGE disk is migrated to a totally virtualized vDisk.
SEE APPENDIX ITEM 4 (COMMENTS ON EXTENT SIZE REQUIERMENTS ON VDISK MIGRATION).
Notice that the type of virtual disk is Image, and that the number of vDisks is already selected with a
value of 1. We click NEXT to continue.
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We chose the name WIN2K_DISK for the Virtual Disk. We click NEXT.
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The panel above shows that the Image-Mode vDisk will be created from the WIN2K_IMAGE Mdisk,
which was originally attached from the ESS_800 to the Win2K Server. We click NEXT.
The panel above is a summary of the process to create our Image disk.
We click finish to create the WIN2K_DISK.
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At this time, we should start the SAN340_1 host (remember it was shutdown to allow the storage
change, from ESS_800 to SVC).
NOTE: Once the SAN340_1 is up and running, it will have the Virtual Disk WIN2K_DISK attached
and any additional SVC migration, disk expansion, etc. will NOT require the Win2K Server to be down.
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In our example, notice the original H: disk is back, but now instead of being provided by the ESS_800, it
comes from 2145 (SVC machine number).
NOTE: In some cases with Windows, the disk (in our case Disk 3), will appear offline. If that is the case,
right click on area labeled Disk 3, and select REACTIVATE DISK. This will bring the disk online will all
the appropriate attributes.
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We find our vDisk called WIN2K_DISK, select it and issue the MIGRATE VDISK function, as seen
above, notice the type is IMAGE, and the Mdisk Group Name that is associated with is ESS800_GROUP.
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Note: the Mdisk Candidates in this panel, pointed by the blue arrows. We DO NOT add any of them
to our group, as that would make a pool, and destroy the data in those disks. We just want an empty
Group. We click Next> to continue
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We click finish to create the Managed Disk Group, notice there are ZERO managed disks in this
group.
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Notice on the Disk2 Properties that the 15 gig LUN came from DS4300 (1722-600).
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The first step we take to virtualize the LUN is to create an Image Mode disk, to preserve all the data
that was available in the Windows Z: disk called SVC21_MIGR.
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To set the attributes of the new virtual image mode vDisk, we select to keep the same name as the
Original Windows disk, because it is the first Image Mode vDisk that we handle, we accept the
default of Create an Empty Managed Disk Group (remember the only attribute we take from the
MDG is the extent size). The panel below also shows that the Mdisk SVC21_MIG_MDISK is the
base for our Image Mode vDisk
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We select 64MB as the extent size, as we decided this is a good value for our environment, we
decided to have ALL Managed Disk Groups with this extent value, so we can move and migrate
among all of them.
We keep all the defaults and select as highlighted below the MIGRATION_GROUP MDG.
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Now we only need to map the Image Mode vDisk to SAN340_1 as shown on Figure 3
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Mapping the Image Mode vDisk to the Windows 2000 host is accomplished with the following
command:
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We click right button to get the following properties, so we can Reactivate Disk to allow
access to Windows. You see in the panel below, that the Windows disk kept all the attributes,
like Drive letter (Z:), name (SVC21_MIGR) and the 15 GIG size.
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We will start using the new SVC 2.1 function called Migrate to an Image Mode vDisk, so
we select our SVC21_MIGR vDisk as the source. During the migration, the Win2K host will
be able to access information without any impact of the major changes happening under the
SVC control. We will move the data from DS4300 to FastT200 totally transparent to the
Win2K Host.
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This panel shows that the Image Mode vDisk is now running on storage provided by the
SVC21_MIG_F200 Managed Disk, and the supporting storage come from the FastT200
Controller.
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1) Shutdown the SAN340_1 host. We are going to change the storage source for the
SVC21_MIGR disk, so we need to do that with the operating system down.
2) Unmap the SVC21_MIGR vDisk from the SAN340_1 Host, using the SVC Console.
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4) Unmap the SVC21_MIG_F200 Mdisk from the SVC using the FastT Management
tool (SM8), and map it to SAN340_1.
5) Power on the SAN340_1 Host, access disk management to see the status of the disk.
The SVC21_MIGR disk might be offline, like show below, in that case, we reactivate the
Windows dynamic disk.
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In the SAN340_1 disk, we format the disk (Y :) and give it the name SVC21_STRIP, we add
Data so we use 679 Meg.
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Our Target disk for the image will be 1 GIG LUN, called IMAGE_STR_TGT, this Mdisk
comes from the DS4300.
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We assign 4 threads to speed up the migration, verify all our parameters, and execute the
migration.
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