Non-disruptive Data Migration

Move files at will, without downtime and without impacting users

Faced with a major NAS platform hardware or software upgrade? A DAS to NAS migration project? A lease rollover or vendor switch? The need to move data in order to re-balance capacity?

All of these tasks involve the movement of data, which translates into costly business disruptions, complex manual reconfiguration and service outages.

F5 Acopia intelligent file virtualization solutions allow data migration tasks to take place without incurring downtime and without requiring administrators to manually re-configure client systems and applications. Data migrations that were disruptive and time consuming can now take place automatically and online - without disrupting the business.   

"We are managing resources supporting multiple business groups on a 24 x 7 basis. Application downtime is business downtime, which is not an option for us. Acopia virtualization products allowed us to perform a multi-terabyte data migration, on-line, with out disrupting our user's access to data, in a fraction of the time and cost to do it manually."

- Leon Roberge, Director of Information Systems, Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc.

The Acopia non-disruptive data migration solution provides many unique benefits:

• Movement of data without interrupting user or application access
• Movement of CIFS, NFS and multi-protocol data
• Movement of data between multiple vendors' NAS or file server devices or between different platforms from the same vendor
• Movement of data at the file, directory, or file system level
• Movement of data is automated to streamline the migration process and eliminate the operational overhead associated with moving data
• Movement of data is scheduled to occur during appropriate times
• Movement of data on even the most massive scale across enterprise class storage environments
• Movement of data while maintaining the original copy of the data for data protection purposes
• Movement of data without the use of stubs, pointers, or log files which pose an availability risk and add complexity to backup and restore workflow
• Multiple migrations can be executed in parallel to accelerate the transition time and migrate more data simultaneously

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For more technical information, download the ESG Lab Review Using Acopia for Data Migrations. Visit the products page or learn more about other Acopia applications.