assuming you use Celerra Replicator  1. permissions and ACLs - yes  security style - no but - unlike some other NAS servers our access policy is per file system (and not per qtree) - so just make sure the destination fs is mounted withe the same access policy as the src  2. no - not the CIFS server itself you can replicate the data file systems without VDM and the would need to manually create the CIFS server(s) on the target and replicate config using lgdup/shared up/...  3. forget default CIFS server - it's an old config option that is rarely used these days normal data mover level CIFS servers(s) can VDM based CIFS servers con co-exist just fine  4. for CIFS the easiest way is to migrate the src to using VDMs first - then just replicate the VDM - alternatively look at the EMC utilities manual for NFS just run a server_export -P nfs and recreate them on the target box   Rainer     1) Does Celerra replicate Permissions and Security Styles along with the filesystems?.    2) Is it possible to replicate a CIFS server from Celerra to Celerra without using VDM?    3) VDM doc tells me "A default CIFS server and CIFS servers within a VDM cannot coexist on the same Data Mover.". If i need to move CIFs servers one at a time, how is that possible?, because according to above statement, i must convert all CIFS servers to VDM at once because CIFS server and VDM cannot co-exist at a time on the same Data Mover.    4) We need to migrate the CIFS servers and NFS exports along with the permissions to another Celerra. Please suggest migration strategy/tools. 
Hello, We are planning to remote migrate CIFS + NFS shares from Celerra to Celerra. I would appreciate if you could answer the following questions:  1) Does Celerra replicate Permissions and Security Styles along with the filesystems?.  2) Is it possible to replicate a CIFS server from Celerra to Celerra without using VDM?  3) VDM doc tells me "A default CIFS server and CIFS servers within a VDM cannot coexist on the same Data Mover.". If i need to move  CIFs servers one at a time, how is that possible?, because according to above statement, i must convert all CIFS servers to VDM at once because CIFS server and VDM cannot co-exist at a time on the same Data Mover.  4) We need to migrate the CIFS servers and NFS exports along with the permissions to another Celerra. Please suggest migration strategy/tools.   Thanks a ton
Celerra Replicator migration