celerra

After seeing my Perl scripts for migrating from EMC Celerra to Isilon a few people have asked me how I moved my actually data from the source Celerra to my target Isilon. The answer is pretty simple: EMCOPY. EMCOPY is basically a fast version of robycopy used for moving data while maintain ACLs and permissions.. It’s CIFS/SMB centric and very easy to use. You run it from a windows machine with access to both shares and it copies data. I wrote a quick script to generate my EMCOPY commands based on my previous ones. Wanted to share that with everyone.     [box]Now it’s time for a short note and small disclaimer. This script works for me in my environment. Do your homework and make this work for you. While I have tried to make this robust and fully functional, it’s important to note “stuff happens”, this is still provides “as is” with no warranty whatsoever. UseRead More →

I’ve been working on a massive migration from an EMC Celerra to our new shiny Isilon. We’ve got a ton of file systems, CIFS, and NFS shares which I don’t want to re-create manually. “Work Smarter, Not Harder” is what Scrooge McDuck always said, right? So I created a few simple Perl scripts to export information from the Celerra Control Station and created a shell script to run on Isilon to migrate the directories and shares. I’ve only tested with with 6.5 – not sure of the change in syntax in 7.x. This doesn’t actually move the data or the permissions, as that is a whole different project. It simply parses a “nas_fs” query to make directories, create a hard quota to mimic sizes, and then created the NFS and SMB share. It’s a set of three scripts that can be run as needed. [box]Now it’s time for a short note and small disclaimer. This script worksRead More →