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One of the obstacles in migrating volumes from legacy systems to new systems is the long application downtime while the volumes are being copied to the new system. IBM XIV offers a powerful data migration feature that migrates volumes while preventing downtime. Data migration to the XIV system is simple because;
• The XIV system acts as a host, gaining access to the volume on the legacy system
• The XIV system is placed between the Servers and the legacy storage array
• The migration process transfers the thick volumes to thin provisioned volumes
• It enables an online data migration from other storage arrays
• New hardware can also be added in this way
The most important benefits from this ease of migration are; • No down time
• No host configuration
• Little administration effort The innovative data migration feature allows the migration of volumes from legacy systems to the IBM XIV system with practically no downtime, performing copying of the information while applications are in production.
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