myrdin wrote:  So I m trying to be more clear: - Is there any particoular drawback to NOT to mount the cifs to a VDM on the SOURCE system and instead replicate the physical datamover, switchover and mount to VDM on the TARGET system afterwards?  thanks!  Sure, you could keep the CIFS server on the physical datamover, but keep in mind there is not a method to "replicate the physical datamover" (using Replicator).  With Replicator as you know, your only choices are: VDM or filesystem.  To accomplish what you want to do, you'd effectively have to treat the source as if it were a traditional (Windows or third-party NAS) fileserver which is of course another perspective but you are (unnecessarily) complicating things as you'd have to do something similiar to the following:  1) Having replicated the filesystems, create a CIFS server on the target "OrigName-NEW"  2) Using Windows migration tools available on PowerLink copy Local Groups (LGDUP.EXE) as necessary  Home > Support > Product and Diagnostic Tools > Celerra Tools > Windows Migration Tools   3) Either recreate shares and apply share permissions manually or run SHAREDUP.EXE  4) Then you'd follow the separate EMC KB article (emc156835) to rename the CIFS server on the SRC to, for instance, "OrigName-OLD" and rename the new CIFS server reusing the original "OrigName".  5) Then you'd follow the above mentioned KB article to move from physical to VDM.   You could save yourself all of this by simply starting the process with the move to VDM which you are going to be running anyways and then replicating the VDM.  Unless I am missing an important reason why this is not an option for you (maybe you can't take the brief outage up-front as required with the initial move to VDM) or I'm not understanding correctly what you are trying to accomplish and I apologize.
Hi guys,    I need a quick advice, following my scenario: - ns120 in production with existing cifs data residing on physical data mover - data has to be moved to a new vnx5300 system as the ns120 will be decomissioned  this is my plan: - replicate the cifs to the physical datamover on the vnx5300 - break the replica and set the destination file system in r/w on the vnx5300. - dismount the file system from the datamover and mount the file system to the virtual data mover on the vnx  the goal is to haave  qucik option to rollback in case something happens, that means i will shutdown the ns120fs1 but i have the option to have it back if needed. Systems have different dns names/ips .  how does it sound? Need some people with experience as EMC guys at support only gives reference to the administrationg guides, they dont have direct exeprience on field. \thanks
moving a dm to vdm different systems