Hi,  Given the arrays you mentioned above, the XIV is on the support matrix to be put behind the VPLEX for encapsulation, but the DS6000 isn't. With that being said you have 2 migration options available if you goal is to migrate to the VNX and remove the XIV/DS arrays completely from your infrastructure:  1. Encapsulation of existing volumes being used today on the XIV.      - This will require a brief outage to the host so that the native volumes being utilized today can be taken away from the host, presented and claimed by the VPLEX, and then provisioned out through the VPLEX in a storage view.      - This is a brief outage because it is essentially a zoning and masking change to point the host from the XIV to the newly encapsulated LUNs on the VPLEX.      - The encapsulation/claiming of the volumes do not alter data and all data stays perfectly in-tact.      - Some of these steps can be pre-staged or scripted to make the outage even quicker      - Once the volumes are encapsulated and re-presented to the host for data validation and to get the application up, the migration part of this will essentially require you to perform a VPLEX Data Mobility job to the brand new VNX LUNs behind the VPLEX and that migration (maintaining a 1:1 encapsulation of devices throughout) will be transparent to the user and result in the virtual volume initially encapsulated on the XIV to now be sitting on a VNX volume under the covers      - Migration is complete  2. Host-base Mirroring/Migration to new VNX target LUN that has already been claimed by the VPLEX and presented to the host as a VPLEX volume.      - With this strategy you simply present the VNX LUN to the VPLEX, claim it, and present it to the host as a new LUN. In this example the host would see the DS6000 LUN natively and now a new VPLEX LUN.      - From here you simply ensure the LUN is discovered and operating properly on the OS and perform whatever flavor of host-based/LVM migration there is to hopefully have it be an online migration:        - Perform the cutover as needed and validate the data/application running on the new VPLEX LUN      - Migration complete  This is a high-level process to answer the question. Let me know if you have any more questions and Solve can also be used for some of the official encapsulation procedures if going that route and that will provide you with the documentation for encapsulation at the host-level as well as how to claim third-party arrays.  HTH  -Keith
Hello, we are looking to migrate IBM XIV and DS6000's to VNX with VPLEX metro with. Also, we have Recoverpoint. Please point me to any documentation that is needed for non EMC arrays. Thank you!
How do you migrate non EMC arrays to VNX with VPLEX?