Using virtualization to simplify data migration and tech refresh
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008With the economy being what it is, and all the consolidation going on in very large US business, the ability to provide complete data mobility is becoming a very interesting topic for many a CIO these days. I ran across an interesting article on searchstorage.com as an example of how virtualization can actually make data migrations as easy as “flipping a switch”!
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/tips/28011-Eight-data-migration-tips
an excerpt:
“Future Electronics’ Falsafi says the host-based virtualisation provided by the FalconStor software made the actual migration painless. “We zoned the XP with a Fibre Channel switch so [it] came up as another set of hard disks to the IPStor. We created a mirrored LUN on the HP StorageWorks XP24000 array and did synchronisation. Once the primary array and the backup LUNs were synchronised … all we did was flip the switch from the primary to the backup, and the backup became the primary,” he says.”
The actual IPStor solution used was not host based, it was fabric based, but i guess the author didn’t understand the technology being used. Even so, it’s an interesting read.�