SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING A MIGRATION PLAN FOR MIGRATING A FILE SYSTEM

摘要

A migration plan is used to create a namespace for the destination file system based at least in part on a namespace of the source file system. The migration plan is also used to determine a destination collection of policies for implementation on the destination file system. At least one of the namespace or the collection of destination policies include an operator-specific configuration that is specified by the one or more rules or parameters of the operator input.

主权项

1. A method for implementing a file system migration as between a source file system and a destination file system, the method being implemented by one or more processors and comprising:
determining a migration plan for the file system migration, the migration plan mapping each of (i) a set of file system objects from the source file system to a corresponding set of file system objects at the destination file system, and (ii) a source policy collection for the set of file system objects to a destination policy collection for the corresponding set of file system objects as the destination file system, wherein the migration plan includes a set of parameters that are based at least in part on an operator input; and implementing the migration of the file system objects using the migration plan, the migration plan specifying, for at least a first object container of the corresponding set of file system objects at the destination file system, at least one of a file contextual path, type, or policy implementation relating to the first object container, that is different as compared to a file path, type or policy implementation of a corresponding source object container of the set of file system objects of the source file system.