Nimble HF-40 along existing EMC storage

[Joey-taps]

hi all

I have 3 HPE DL380 hosts connected to an old EMC VNX via iSCSI. We recently acquired an HF-40 and I connected it to the 3 hosts via iSCSI also. We plan to do storage migration to move the VMs to the new storage before decommissioning the VNX.

I have the Nimble integration with vCenter working and I can use the plugin to create VMFS/VVols. However I don't have NCM or Nimble PSP installed on the hosts, can those be installed on the hosts even though they are still connected to another brand storage?

thanks

[Kevin Skinner_2 · Accepted solution]

Yes.

We just setup our new HF20 and tech support during the setup  and knowledge transfer had us install the tools on each host while still connected to our old Tegile box.

[Joey-taps]

are you still running both boxes?

thanks!

[Kevin Skinner_2]

Yes we are. We are just starting to migrate VM's to the new Nimble this week.

[Joey-taps]

cool!