Migrate Data from Celerra to NetApp FAS

[katama777]

I am looking to migrate data at the file system and/or quota->qtree level from EMC Celerra to a NetApp FAS. The back end of the Celerra is 3 CX700s, and the NetApp is a FAS 3070 with built-in disk shelves.

The Celerra has 3 nas_pools, one per CX, at about 15TB each, 45TB total. The Celerra is in one data center, and the FAS is in another data center about 2000 feet away, with a 10GB networking pipe between the two datacenters, but there is no fibre infrastructure between the two, so no ndmpcopy. I do not need to migrate all the data at once, but gradually want to move off the Celerra. Right now we are mounting exports from both NAS boxes on an admin host and using rsync to move the data over, but rsync is very inefficient.

Does anyone have any ideas? I am pretty sure we have access to SAN Copy, but I have only heard of that moving data at the LUN level, which I do not want. I was thinking about NetApp VFM, but someone shot that idea down, not sure why as I don't know much about that product.

Thanks ahead,
Katama

 

[xmsre]

but there is no fibre infrastructure between the two, so no ndmpcopy"

On the netapp side, you can do ndmpcopy over tcp/ip. Is that a celerra limitation?

 

[katama777]

I am not sure, will have to research that with EMC. Thanks, I will post back when I find out more.