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Enable data access from SAN hosts to your ASA r2 storage system

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To set up data access, you should ensure that specific parameters and settings on your SAN client that are critical for proper operation with ONTAP are configured correctly. If you are using VMware, you should migrate your virtual machines.

Set up data access from SAN hosts

The configuration necessary to set up data access to your ASA r2 system from your SAN hosts varies depending on the host operating system and the protocol. Correct configuration is important for best performance and successful failover.

See the ONTAP SAN host documentation for VMware vSphere SCSI clients, VMware vSphere NVMe clients and other SAN clients to properly configure your hosts to connect to your ASA r2 system.

Migrate VMware virtual machines

If you need to migrate your VM workload from an ASA storage system to an ASA r2 storage system, NetApp recommends that you use VMware vSphere vMotion to perform a live, non-disruptive migration of your data.

What's next?

You are ready to provision storage to enable your SAN hosts to read and write data to storage units.