What is the best way to migrate shares from Windows Cluster Server to Cohesity?

Dear All,

Any use cases where dfs and non-dfs shares are migrated to Cohesity Data Platform with near zero downtime?

I feel below solutions are feasible:

1. Use Robocopy, pl

2. dfs replication provided windows OS supports the functionality

3. Backup and Restore.

4. Build a VM out of Cohesity and use VMware native tool to migrate everything.

If you any other methods, please share your views.

Shivanand Hadapad

Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Helped 892,678 peers since 2012

1 Answer

Last answered Nov 16, 2020

Russell Rothstein

CEO at PeerSpot

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Nov 16, 2020

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