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This white paper provides an overview of technologies that are used to migrate to the Dell PowerStore platform.
Migration requires moving data and changing host connectivity from one storage device to another. The type of data varies—between file, block, or both—which is critical when deciding which tools to use for the migration.
This paper describes the native import feature that you can use to move storage resources into PowerStore from other Dell or third-party storage systems. A new feature called Universal Import feature was added to PowerStore with the PowerStoreOS 4.0 release. It allows agentless import for a wide range of block storage systems. The paper additionally provides an overview of other tools for migrating to PowerStore. These tools are described in the following sections (grouped by the purpose of the tools):
Migrate block data:
Migrate file data:
Migrate virtualized environments: