HP 3PAR Peer Motion Guide

◦ windows2008
◦ mswindows
NOTE: If you selected an OS in the HP 3PAR Management Console (3.1.2 versions and
above) in a drop-down menu, you do not need to change the OS value when using Peer
Motion Utility.
For Read-Only Commands
• Default behavior is to display all details with headings in a readable format.
• If nothing is specified with the commands, the default parameter is –all.
• For any entry that is not known, |unknown| is displayed.
• If no entry found in the data base, an empty list is displayed.
• You can cannot modify the sort order.
• Any argument that follows -showcols depicts field to display (columns). CLI provides o/p with
only those columns that are mentioned in showcols.
• Any argument that follows -<parameter> after a space depicts input for that command.
• Delimiter: Primarily comma (,) is the delimiter used. Semi-colon (;) is the delimiter used within
multiple entries for same field.
• To filter, parameter by column name, use the wildcard entry can be specified with value as
that uses only “*”.
• If the value for an entry is not available, “--NA--” is displayed.
For Write Commands
Any successful execution of write command is displayed as:
NOTE: The following output is an example only. Your system may not reflect the specific examples
used in this guide.
<message> SUCCESS: Added source storage system.
Online Migration
To perform Online migration, follow the steps and execute the commands in the following order:
1. addsource -mgmtip <ipaddress> -user <username> -password <password>
-type 3PAR
2. showsource
3. adddestination -mgmtip <ipaddress> <username> -password <password>
-type 3PAR
4. showdestination
5. showconnection
6. createmigration -sourceuid <sourceuid> -srcvolmap
[{"<volumename>","<destinationprovisioning>","<destinationCPG>"}]
-migtype online
7. showmigration -migrationid <migrationid>
NOTE: In case there is a need to abort the prepared migration, use the removemigration
command for the same: removemigration -migrationid <migrationid>.
Using the HP 3PAR Peer Motion Utility Commands 69