Users Guide

17. To view the progress of ongoing import sessions, under Migration, select Imports.
18. To view the progress details of a specific ongoing import session, click the state of that import session.
The Import Session Progress Details slide out for that import session appears.
Manage agentless import sessions
About this task
An import session runs as a background job and establishes an end-to-end path for an import operation between a source and
destination. The data follows the path as it moves from source to destination.
Steps
1. Under Migration, select Imports.
The Import External Storage page appears and lists information about the existing import sessions.
2. Perform one of the following import actions:
NOTE: The import actions that can be performed on an import session depend on the current state of the import
session.
Action Description
Cancel
NOTE: For volume, Cancel can be performed only when the import processing state is Queued,
Scheduled, Ready To Enable Destination Volume, Ready to Start Copy, Copy-In-Progress, Paused,
Ready for Cutover, or Cancel Required and the host application that is accessing the volume has been
shutdown and reconfigured to access the source volume. For volume group, Cancel can be performed
only when the import processing state is Queued, Scheduled, In-Progress, Paused, Ready for Cutover,
Import-Cutover-Incomplete, Cancel Required, Cancel-Failed, Failed and the host application that is
accessing the volume has been shutdown. Before cancelling an agentless import session, reconfigure
the host application that is accessing the import's destination volume back to the source volume. This
is applicable when the import session is being cancelled after the host application has been
reconfigured to use the destination volume in PowerStore.
Select an import session and under Import Actions, click Cancel. The cancel operation sets the state of
the import session to CANCELLED and disables access to the destination volume. It also deletes the
destination volume or volume group associated with the import session.
NOTE: When all the volumes in a volume group are cancelled successfully, the state of the import
session is set to CANCELLED. However, since the status of the volume group is dependent on the
final status of the member volumes, if one or more of the member volumes are in a state other than
CANCELLED, the status of the volume group is set to Cancel_Failed. You must repeat the cancel
operation again until it succeeds and the status for the volume group becomes CANCELLED.
NOTE: Import sessions are not deleted. If you want to delete the import session, use the delete
operation that is available only through the REST API. Manual intervention is required to reconfigure
the host to access the source volumes again.
NOTE: A Force Stop option is not available for Cancel during an agentless import.
Cutover Select an import session and under Import Actions, click Cutover to commit an import session. You can
cut over an import session that is in the Ready-For-Cutover state.
NOTE: When all the volumes in a consistency group are cut over successfully, the state of the import
session is set to Import Complete. However, since the status of the consistency group is
dependent on the final status of the member volumes, if one or more of the member volumes are in a
state other than Import Complete, the status of the consistency group is set to
Cutover_Failed. You must remove all the failed volumes from the consistency group and try the
import again.
40 Configuring and managing import