How to migrate data from EMC disk to HP disk?
Requirements:
- Upgrade firmware level for HBA card (Reboot required)
- Install MPxIO driver for HP disk array (Reboot required)
Procedure:
- List all the EMC disk that is being used by the volume group.
- Request new HP disk which has equal or bigger size with the EMC disk.
- Assign new HP disk to AIX server
- Check the newly assigned HP disk with the correct size.
- Attached all HP disk to the volume group according to total disk size required.
- Run mirrorvg for each volume group and mirrored to HP disk
- Make sure all logical volumes are synchronized and completed
- Run unmirrorvg for each volume group to detach EMC disk
- Remove the device name for EMC disk
- Unmap the EMC disk from the AIX server
- Reboot the AIX server for the clean assigned disk and filesystem.
Requirements:
- Upgrade firmware level for HBA card (Reboot required)
- Install MPxIO driver for HP disk array (Reboot required)
Procedure:
- List all the EMC disk that is being used by the volume group.
- Request new HP disk which has equal or bigger size with the EMC disk.
- Assign new HP disk to AIX server
- Check the newly assigned HP disk with the correct size.
- Attached all HP disk to the volume group according to total disk size required.
- Run mirrorvg for each volume group and mirrored to HP disk
- Make sure all logical volumes are synchronized and completed
- Run unmirrorvg for each volume group to detach EMC disk
- Remove the device name for EMC disk
- Unmap the EMC disk from the AIX server
- Reboot the AIX server for the clean assigned disk and filesystem.