As you plan the physical move of equipment in your data center, you must also plan to move the data. But if this process is not managed carefully, you can experience downtime, data loss or corruption, and overall application performance problems.
Data center relocations/consolidations may involve combining or converting:
Direct-attached storage devices into a larger direct-attached storage device or larger storage area network (SAN)
SAN-attached devices into a larger SAN-attached device
Multiple smaller MODs to fewer, larger MODs.
And with IBM Data Mobility Services and Softek™ TDMF™ (Transparent Data Migration Facility), you can:
Move data between multivendor storage arrays without an application outage
Direct input/output (I/O) automatically to a new location after data replication is complete
Perform data migration over distances with virtually any storage hardware
Capitalize on new storage without having to wait for planned windows of downtime
