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Process Permissions on FIle Servers

ianclarke
over 5 years ago

Hi All

I have not been involved in a migration for the past 3 years.  Now we are migrating between forests for users/groups, workstations and email. Which is all good.

We have a question around the File Server Migration process and whether it can be streamlined?  I am looking to find out

1. Can we run an initial Vmover command and start to process permissions. Even if all users and groups are not migrated? And then run a delta to permission new folders and also add missing users and groups?

2. On data this is dedupe'd - Does this have any effect when running VMover?

Thanks 

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  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Thanks for the replies.  So more stats around the file servers - in prep for the Vmover taks.  Is there any loose formula or ball park figure that can be used to say, re-permission around 100,000 files?

     I guess that there are many factors, but a ball park figure would be ideal.

    Is it all on the item count or does file sizes become a factor?

    Thanks

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to ianclarke

    File sizes don't matter - whether a file is big or small, it only has one ACL.  It's all about the number of files and folders.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to JohnnyQuest

    Thanks 

    I am glad it is purely file items. From experience, do you have any idea to say if there are x number of files then it will take around x hours to complete the process?

    Thanks

  • +1 over 5 years ago in reply to ianclarke

    X per hour depends on the host being processed. It is also files and folder for this count of X. I have seen it in the 1M and 100K ranges. Again it is all about the hosts. 

  • +1 over 5 years ago in reply to Jeff Shahan

    Again to elaborate on Jeff's point - it's the classic "it depends, so benchmark in your environment" situation.

    Influencing factors:

    • Processor speed
    • Disk responsiveness
    • General VM tuning (if file server host is a VM)
    • Loading of physical VM host server (again, if your servers are virtual)

    PS I did some checking on stats from my last project and we saw processing speeds in the range of 300 to 500K files / hour.  Your mileage may vary.  

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  • +1 over 5 years ago in reply to Jeff Shahan

    Again to elaborate on Jeff's point - it's the classic "it depends, so benchmark in your environment" situation.

    Influencing factors:

    • Processor speed
    • Disk responsiveness
    • General VM tuning (if file server host is a VM)
    • Loading of physical VM host server (again, if your servers are virtual)

    PS I did some checking on stats from my last project and we saw processing speeds in the range of 300 to 500K files / hour.  Your mileage may vary.  

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