Prerequisites for SMB data migration

This topic describes the prerequisites that must be met before you go ahead with SMB data migration

The recommended tool for migration is Robocopy, which should be running from one or more Windows client machines. The data is read through the SMB protocol from the source machine and written through the SMB protocol to IBM Storage Scale file system.

The prerequisites are the following:
  • Authentication method has to be Active Directory with the source SMB server and target IBM Storage Scale cluster using the same Active Directory environment.
  • Windows client machines for the data migration can access the source SMB server and the IBM Storage Scale cluster
  • A user ID used for the migration needs to be defined and that user must have permissions to read all data from the source SMB server.
  • SID history needs to be removed or converted on the source data.