CAS MIGRATION DATASHEET
DobiMiner® is the CAS Storage Migration Software of Choice for
Hundreds of Companies Around the World.
DobiMiner delivers best-in-class CAS migration whether it be to another CAS
platform or to NAS storage. DobiMiner’s powerful functionality enables you to
migrate to a new platform quickly, easily, cost effectively, and efficiently.
OVERVIEW
When faced with the pain of a long, labor-intensive, skillsabsorbing, and error-prone migration process, DobiMiner is the
fix. DobiMiner brings automation, advanced engineering, and
embedded intelligence that will completely revolutionize your
platform migrations:
• BUILT-IN DISCOVERY - DobiMiner extracts the metadata from
your storage platform and gives you powerful insights — what
is stored, who stored it, when it is accessed, and more — so
you can have a complete, holistic view of your data and users
to intelligently plan your migration.
ESSENTIALS
• Make informed decisions about
project objectives.
• Reduce overall migration times.
• Scale back and use more taskappropriate project staff.
• Reduce the risk inherent in a
complex manual process.
• Minimize disruption to daily
business.
• Adapt easily to changing
business priorities.
• Facilitate communication
throughout your business.
SUPPORTED STORAGE
PLATFORMS
• BUILT TO SCALE – DobiMiner can handle any size of CAS
storage environment from a few Terabytes to multiple
clusters distributed globally. Multiple instances with advanced
throttling can be deployed quickly and easily to maximize
network throughput and minimize disruptions to the users.
Source Platforms
• EMC® Centera®
• EMC Atmos®
Target Platforms
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EMC Centera
EMC Data Domain®
EMC ECS®
EMC Isilon®
EMC ViPR CAS
EMC VNX®
Most other NAS storage platforms
Please inquire if your storage
platform is not listed.
CAS MIGRATION DATASHEET
• WORKFLOW BASED – DobiMiner will inform you about
ongoing activities and clearly indicate when your input is
needed. You can track all the migration steps in real-time from
a high level view down to a granular detailed report.
• SIMPLE & INTUITIVE INTERFACE – DobiMiner allows you to
centrally manage your project via a simple, easy-to-use web
interface. You can also monitor progress remotely via the
‘Email Home’ feature.
• LOW TOUCH PLANNING – DobiMiner can help you plan and
execute your switch over windows for a smooth transfer of users and applications to your new storage platform. It allows
you to deal with last minute changes swiftly in a low-touch
manner.
DOBIMINER KEY BENEFITS
DobiMiner is an end-to-end platform migration solution that helps
reduce effort, cost, and duration:
• EASY TO DEPLOY – DobiMiner can be up and running within
an hour through easy-to-use installers and virtual instances as a
software-only solution.
• REDUCE YOUR EFFORT – DobiMiner takes away the repetitive
work and allows you to focus on what matters: to manage by
exception and resolve issues highlighted to you by DobiMiner.
• SHORTER DURATION – DobiMiner’s flexible planning support
helps you to optimize the planning for redirecting your users
and applications to the new storage system.
• FLEXIBILITY – DobiMiner will support you in absorbing any last
minute business, infrastructure, network, or operational restrictions that would impact the migration project and team.
• DEAL WITH COMPLEXITY – DobiMiner takes away the complexity that comes with an increase in the number of clusters, users,
applications, and data to be migrated because you can group
and track servers together with their own planning, progress reporting, and issue tracking.
• NON-INTRUSIVE – DobiMiner allows you to run the migration
project as transparently and non-intrusively as possible to ongoing business operations. Multi-threading, throttling, and scheduling gives you the options you need to seamlessly blend into
your infrastructure.
• MAINTAIN CONTROL - DobiMiner allows you to take control
over the migration activities as they progress. This includes prioritization within the planning, migration granularity, and network usage. At any point in time during the activities, accurate
ETAs, and durations help you set expectations with your stakeholders.
CAS MIGRATION DATASHEET
FEATURE MATRIX
CAS MIGRATION FEATURES IN DOBIMINER 3.0
Easy deployment
Deploy
Deploy multiple instances for optimized network performance
Deploy multiple instances for large scale/global migrations
Meta-data based discovery of your data
Discover
Full discovery of source environment attributes
Top down reporting across multiple systems
Group and track multiple systems simultaneously
Plan and Scope
Plan and organize switch-over windows based on ETAs
Perform selected & partial migrations
Control
Interactive support for full planning and execution flexibility
Throttling and scheduling of server load
Consolidate multiple systems simultaneously
Supports all CAS platforms as source
Migrate
Iterative approach with auto tracking of changes to be migrated
Automatic creation of Pools and Profiles
Automatic transfer of retention settings
Workflow oriented views
Monitoring and
Reporting
Accurate and real-time progress reporting via GUI
Report on migration result for each processed file
Automated daily email reporting for remote follow-up
Switchover &
Validate
Built-in source and target hash checking
Automated or 'handshake' application database update
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