Migrating Petabytes of Data to EMC Isilon with Minimal Disruption at the Cutover
for a Fortune 50 Financial Institution
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Business Need
- Migrating to EMC Isilon as a secondary platform within NAS storage estate.
- Transitioning to Isilon with minimal disruption at the cutover.
- Avoidance of contention during replication.
- Copying security and permissions across platforms without errors.
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Challenges Faced
- Data replication in the background while transitioning to the EMC Isilon as the secondary NAS solution.
- Managing the amount of network bandwidth needed for migration.
- Driving the consistency in deploying the solution across all global data centers.
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Solution Offered
The customer selected, and was supported by the EMC Isilon team, to use StorageX for their migration because it delivered:
- Single pane view across both CIFS and NFS migrations.
- Ability to set QoS during replication to minimize client impact.
- Ability to manage bandwidth utilization as part of the data copying phase.
- Minimal disruption to business for cutover.
- Standardization across global data centers.
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Business Impact
Quality of Service
- Hot” and cold windows for replication with specific bandwidth management criteria.
- Data replication for the initial and incremental replication policy runs while migrating all data.
Reduced Outage Window
- Ensuring data availability for millions of internal and external users.
- Reduced downtime for the final cutover to a fraction of what other solution offers.
Consistency and Single Pane View
- Centralizing the management of the migration to key geographies
- Driving consistency by leveraging the structure regardless of geo-location or protocol.