Solution brief

HP Data Migration Services

End-to-end consulting services for a safe, efficient data move

A proven process that delivers

rapid results
When you engage HP Technology Consulting for your data migration,
the first step is assigning an HP project manager to oversee the
project and engage the proper expert delivery consultants. Our
delivery consultants then meet with your designated storage
administrator to perform an initial assessment of your environment
and business needs to determine the fastest, safest, and most costeffective method to get your information moved where you need it,
when you need it.
From there, well collaborate with you to create implementation
plans. Once the strategy and plans are in place, well perform
the migration, verify data accessibility, create clear and concise
documentation outlining your new configuration, and conduct a brief
operational forum to familiarize you and your staff with the new
data layout.

Ease the pain of storage consolidation and migration

Leveraging advanced automation technologies, HP uses a softwareled solution to dramatically reduce project timeline, errors, and
financial costsall while significantly cutting back on the personnel
needed to implement your project.

Migrate your data quickly and easily, and

leave the worries behind

This results in quicker discovery and allows for initial as well

as dynamic continuous planning. We understand your business
requirements can change at any time during the migrationand
we recognize that continuous planning is key for successful data
migration efforts.

Migrating your companys critical business data to new storage

technology or a new location can be a complex, time-consuming,
and risky undertaking. You know you have to avoid interrupting
the companys day-to-day business operations at all costs. At the
same time, you find yourself dealing with an enormous volume of
information, a disparity between the layout of your new storage
platforms versus your old ones, and a sense of confusion as to which
of the many migration methods will be the safest and most costeffective for your IT infrastructure.

During remediation discovery and analysis, consultants on the

HP Technology Consulting team collect and correlate data that is
then compiled into a comprehensive, transparent report of your
current SAN infrastructure. This report not only includes details on
all switches, bus adaptors, drivers, and hosts, but it also validates
this information against both the vendors support matrix and your
companys internal storage support matrix. The net result is an
extensive, customized report that identifies potential reclamation
opportunities, thereby keeping data current and accurate.

If your company is dealing with data migrationwhether its

relocating your operations, consolidating, tiering, or simply moving
information to a different storage platform, HP can help.

Orchestrate the complete data migration process

HP Data Migration Services take the burden of migration off your

shoulders and puts it in the capable hands of expert HP storage
migration consultants. HP has migrated petabytes of data worldwide
ranging from storage area network (SAN), network attached storage
(NAS), and file systems, to open systems and mainframes. Plus
we have the experience and proven methodologies to deal with
whatever complexities your particular migration may present.

As part of HP Data Migration Services, we offer an automated

end-to-end solution that is completely customizable to any
organizations SAN or NAS environment. Using innovative software
solutions, HP can:
Automate your SAN assessment by collecting information on your
storage infrastructure and servers to quickly generate information
for decision-making and planning
Analyze discovery results and plan for the migration
Establish the methodology for process standardization
and consistency
Perform knowledge transfer throughout the project

 Automate and orchestrate the data migration

Audit the SAN environment to ensure that source and target
layouts are in compliance with customer-based or industry-based
SAN migration best practices
Create work files (scripts) for each of the processes to execute on
the migration

By engaging HP to complete your data migration, you wind up

with an updated, more efficient data layoutand gain substantial
benefits in the areas of performance and agility. Also, for HP storage
products supporting thin provisioning, our services can optionally
improve overall storage capacity utilization by reclaiming wasted
space in allocated but unused storage.

Trigger the activation of your companys selected data movers

Generate cleanup files to optimize space in the source and target
environments

Maintain consistent data availability during the

transfer process
Techniques employed by HP Data Migration Services are unique
even among professional IT vendorsin that they can be
accelerated and decelerated as needed to accommodate variations
in user demand on the system. This is a differentiator for HP and a
benefit that few other vendorsif any can provide.

Know the benefits of engaging HP Data

Migration Services
Our online methods provide complete user read-and-write access to
the data during the migration process, so there is no need to update
data after the migration is done. Our approach is storage hardware
independentwith no additional hardware required. With our help,
you can:
Transport critical business data safely with minimal impact to
your operations

A variety of migration methods to suit your

infrastructure needs

Count on absolute control of the migration process, which can be

throttled to avoid performance impacts to production platforms

Are you concerned about interoperability problems between

vendors? Dont be. HP migration methods are platform agnostic and
extremely flexible. We can move data online, offline, across a data
center, or around the globe via Fibre Channel, FCIP, iSCSI, LAN, WAN,
mirroring technologies, or an extensive variety of other tested and
proven technologies and processes. We provide this service for block
level storage, NAS (NFS/CIFS), open systems, Z/OS mainframe, and
mixed computing environments.

Move information in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the

costs of other solutions

An opportunity to re-architect your

data layout
Data migration gives an important opportunity to re-architect
your companys data layout to increase performance and maintain
uptime. It provides the opportunity to take full advantage of your
new storage platform capabilities in the process.
Like many companies, you may avoid changing your data layout
even if it has become outdated and inefficientsimply because
it requires more effort, time, and risk to business continuity if
something were to go wrong.

Were ready when you are

The next time you need to migrate data for any reason, consider
HP Data Migration Services. Well deploy our experienced strategic
consultants to migrate your data safely and quicklywithout
interruption to your day-to-day business operations.
The result will be an updated, more responsive storage system that
is ready to meet your business objectives and support the service
levels that you expect. And you can count on an overall greater
return on investment with your storage investment.
When it comes to data migration, only HP brings together the deep
expertise, proven methodology, and multivendor know-howplus a
strong partner network. Because when your technology works, your
business works.
To learn more how the HP Storage Data Migration Service helps
to improve your storage environment, reduce storage costs, and
streamline storage management, visit:
hp.com/services/storage

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