About using SmartMove to migrate to Thin Storage

If you have existing data on a thick LUN, the SmartMove feature enables you to migrate the data to a thin LUN. The migration process copies only the blocks in use by the Veritas File System (VxFS) to the thin LUN. The SmartMove feature leverages the Veritas File System (VxFS) information about which blocks in a Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) volume contain data. Therefore, the migration functionality is available only when a VxVM volume is on a mounted VxFS file system.

To migrate the data to the thin LUN, follow the recommended procedure.

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