Administrator Guide

Chapter 6: Volume expansion....................................................................................................... 31
Overview.............................................................................................................................................................................. 31
Additional documentation...........................................................................................................................................31
Volume expansion method............................................................................................................................................... 31
List expansion-method attribute using CLI............................................................................................................31
List expansion-method attribute using Unisphere...............................................................................................32
Expand the virtual volume...............................................................................................................................................33
Storage-volume expansion method........................................................................................................................ 33
Limitations.....................................................................................................................................................................35
Chapter 7: Data migration............................................................................................................37
About data migrations...................................................................................................................................................... 37
One time migrations.................................................................................................................................................... 37
Limitations..................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Batch migrations..........................................................................................................................................................37
General procedure to perform data migration......................................................................................................38
Migrating thin-capable storage......................................................................................................................................38
About rebuilds.................................................................................................................................................................... 42
Rebuilds for thin provisioned storage..................................................................................................................... 42
Performance considerations..................................................................................................................................... 43
One-time data migrations................................................................................................................................................43
Starting a one-time device migration..................................................................................................................... 43
Monitoring a migration’s progress...........................................................................................................................44
Pausing/resuming a migration (optional).............................................................................................................. 45
Canceling a migration (optional)..............................................................................................................................45
Committing a completed migration.........................................................................................................................45
Cleaning a migration................................................................................................................................................... 46
Removing migration records.....................................................................................................................................46
Batch migrations............................................................................................................................................................... 46
Prerequisites................................................................................................................................................................. 47
Creating a batch migration plan............................................................................................................................... 47
Checking a batch migration plan..............................................................................................................................47
Modifying a batch migration file.............................................................................................................................. 48
Starting a batch migration........................................................................................................................................ 48
Pausing/resuming a batch migration (optional).................................................................................................. 49
Canceling a batch migration (optional)..................................................................................................................49
Monitoring a batch migration’s progress...............................................................................................................49
Viewing a batch migration’s status.........................................................................................................................50
Committing a batch migration..................................................................................................................................50
Cleaning a batch migration........................................................................................................................................ 51
Removing batch migration records..........................................................................................................................51
Chapter 8: Configure the WAN Network...................................................................................... 52
Metro node hardware and WAN ports.........................................................................................................................52
Metro over IP WAN port configuration rules............................................................................................................. 52
Port groups................................................................................................................................................................... 52
CLI contexts....................................................................................................................................................................... 52
port-groups context................................................................................................................................................... 53
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