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Chapter
3
Data Migration
In this chapter
•Upgrading the license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
•Supported migration paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
•Pre-migration requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
•Migrating data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
•Cross flavor migration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
•Migration rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Upgrading the license

The quickest and simplest method of moving from one package to another is to enter the new
license information on the Network Advisor License dialog box. The following tables list the
available upgrade paths:
TABLE 10 SAN upgrade paths
Current software release To software release
SAN Professional SAN Professional Plus or Licensed version
SAN Enterprise Trial or Licensed version
SAN + IP Professional Plus Licensed version
SAN + IP Enterprise Licensed version
SAN Professional Plus Licensed version SAN Enterprise Licensed version
SAN + IP Professional Plus Licensed version
SAN + IP Enterprise Licensed version
SAN Enterprise Trial SAN Enterprise Licensed version
SAN + IP Enterprise Trial or Licensed version
SAN Enterprise Licensed version SAN + IP Enterprise Licensed version