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Christian_Akess's avatar
10 years ago

Migrating to a new SAN

We're in the process of moving to new datacenters. All servers will be moved over but the SAN won't. The SAN will be replicated to a new SAN in the new datacenters by our SAN admins. That means, the ...
  • mikebounds's avatar
    10 years ago

    What you are planning should work  but there will be some additional steps and the issue will not be that the target numbers are different, but that the UDID in the private region will not be the same as the UDID of the new luns and therefore your new LUNS will show up as uuid mismatch or clone devices.  

    This issue is easily overcome by running  vxdisk updateudid and vxdisk set clone=off before importing diskgroups - see http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH204069 

    Mike