Owner's manual

Gen 5 Fibre Channel Helps Close the Storage Migraon Window
A process known as Live Storage Migraon allows for a non-disrupve migraon of running VM disk les
between two dierent physical storage devices. This process allows for the VM to remain running with no
need to take its workload oine to move the VM’s les to a dierent physical storage device. Addional use
cases for Live Storage Migraon include migraon of data to new storage arrays or larger capacity, beer
performing LUNs. NPIV zoning and LUN masking must be properly congured to ensure the VM and host
server connue to have access to the storage aer the migraon is completed. Live Storage Migraon across
a Gen 5 Fibre Channel link can nish in half the me it takes with an 8Gb Fibre Channel link. All paths related
to Live Storage Migraon should be supported by high-performance networks to reduce the me it takes to
evacuate storage safely to a new desnaon and resume normal operaons. Addionally, 10GbE links can
replace 1GbE links to ensure proper bandwidth exists for Live Storage Migraon in Ethernet environments.
Live Storage Migraon
A single-port QLE2670 Gen 5 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter can double throughput for a live storage migraon.
Storage Live Migraon at Gen 5
This bandwidth-intensive operaon now enables VMs and
associated VHDX les to be migrated between clusters that
do not have a common set of storage.
Live Storage
Migraon
QLE2670 Gen 5 Fibre
Channel Host Bus Adapters
QLE3240 10GbE
Intelligent Ethernet
Adapters