Skip to main content
NetApp Data Migrator

NetApp Data Migrator support for features, file servers, and protocols

Contributors netapp-pcarriga netapp-mj39955
PDFs

NetApp Data Migrator supports certain features, file servers, and protocols.

Supported and unsupported features

NetApp Data Migrator supports a range of features for NFS and SMB migrations. Some features are not supported.

Supported features

Description Supported feature

Permissions and audit handling

  • Chain of custody reporting

  • Discretionary Access Control List (DACL)

  • Preserve Access Control List (ACL)

  • User Identifier (UID) and Security Identifier (SID) remapping

File system objects and links

  • Hard link handling

    NetApp Data Migrator migrates objects and links as separate files.

  • Symbolic links

    Note: Supported for NFS migrations

File metadata preservation

  • Preserve access time

  • Preserve creation time

  • Preserve modified time

  • Preserve permissions

Migration behavior and data consistency

  • Delete propagation

  • Incremental migration

  • Support for open files

  • Switchover support

Migration control and execution

  • File pattern exclusions

  • Scheduling for migration

Unsupported features

Description Unsupported feature

Permissions and audit handling

System Access Control List (SACL)

Note: Unsupported for SMB migrations

File system objects and links

  • Follow NTFS junctions

  • Symbolic links

    Note: Unsupported for SMB migrations

  • Alternate data streams

    NetApp Data Migrator can discover but not migrate alternate data streams.

File metadata preservation

Selective file attributes

Migration behavior and data consistency

Migration of snapshots

Supported file servers

NetApp Data Migrator supports certain file servers as source and destination for data migration.

Description Supported file server

Source

Any NAS server, for example, Dell Isilon, ONTAP, Vanilla Linux, Windows, Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Destination

All service levels of Azure NetApp Files (ANF), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV), Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN), Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Supported NFS and SMB migration protocols

NetApp Data Migrator supports certain NFS and SMB protocol versions for data migration.

Protocol Supported versions

NFS

4.1, 3.0

SMB

3.1, 3.0, 2.0