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 the critical parameters and settings on your SAN client for proper operation with ONTAP are configured correctly. If you are providing storage for your VMware environment, you should install OTV 10.3 to simply the management of your ASA r2 storage.
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.
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Learn more about the advantanges of using ONTAP for vSphere.
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Learn about VMware Live Site Recovery with ONTAP.
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Learn about continuous availability solutions for vSphere environments.
Migrate data from a third-party storage system
Beginning with ONTAP 9.17.1, you can use Foreign LUN Import (FLI) to migrate data from a LUN on a third-party storage system to an ASA r2 system. Using FLI for your data migration can help you mitigate the risk of data loss and downtime during the migration process.
FLI supports both online and offline migrations. In an online migration, the client system stays online while data is copied from the third-party storage system to the ONTAP storage system. Online migrations are supported by Windows, Linux, and ESXi host operating systems. In an offline migration, the client system is taken offline, the LUN data is copied from the third-party storage system to the ONTAP storage system, and then the client system is brought back online.
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Learn how to perform an FLI offline migration.
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Learn how to perform an FLI online migrations.
Configure your ASA r2 system as a storage provider in your VMware environment
You can use ONTAP tools for VMware to easily enable your ASA r2 system as a storage provider in your VMware environment.
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere is a set of tools that work in conjunction with VMware vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) for easy management of virtual machines on your VMware ESXi hosts.
ASA r2 systems are supported by ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.3 and later.
Learn how to Deploy ONTAP tools for VMware and then use it to do the following:
You are ready to provision storage to enable your SAN hosts to read and write data to storage units.