When to avoid block-level migration

Storage Subsystem Administration Guide for Hitachi NAS Platform

Version
14.9.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-92HNAS012-30

For optimal performance, a span should have a single stripeset (it should never have been expanded). The stripeset should contain a large number of system drives, and it should reside on a thinly provisioned HDP pool. The more a span differs from this ideal configuration, the poorer the performance, even after migration to new storage.

The worst case is a span for which the span-list -s command shows a large number of stripesets of one or two SDs each and also where the span-space-distribution command shows that the filesystems are not evenly spread across those stripesets.

A second configuration that cannot be helped by migration is a filesystem that is much smaller than the current maximum size, but which, according to the filesystem-scalability command, cannot expand because it has used up most or all of the available chunk runs.

For these configurations, use Object Replication or Universal Migrator.