For SharePoint Migration management
of file shares to SharePoint server, SharePointMigrator makes
the process easy by automating numerous key components of best
practices for SharePoint migration. From a central console of
SharePointMigrator, these best practices could be implemented
and monitored as follows.
Discovery - one click operation for discovery of
all file shares from all accessible file servers.
Storage optimization - A file share may contain many
unused files that has accumulated over years without
significantly impacting the related storage cost. The
SharePoint repository is database storage and much more
expensive than file share storage. This calls for putting
only the files that are recently used in the SharePoint
repository. With one click, collect, analyze and prepare
space usage reports of all discovered file shares based on
file age, file access, file size, file types, duplicates
and Owners.
Migration pre-staging - Provide a cut-off time globally
or on per share basis based on which recently created
and/or accessed files from the file shares will be
moved/copied to a staging area for migration to the
SharePoint repository.
Filtering file types - Specify global filter or filter
on per share basis to screen-out the files that are not
recommended to be placed in the SharePoint repository.
Filename translation - SharePoint does not allow
specific characters in the repository object names that
are allowed in the file names in file shares. Also there
is constraint on the length of the SharePoint object
names. Automatically translate the not allowed file name
characters and shorten the names based on rules. Get an
exception report of the offending file names and rename
them manually if desired.
Archive file shares - After taking the recently used
files for migration, compress-encrypt-archive the old
unused files from the file shares or move/delete the files
to lower storage tier from a centralized console.
Future functionalities:
Direct interface to SharePoint - Move the files from the
staging area to SharePoint along with all the file related
metadata without using the explorer interface of
SharePoint.
Metadata creation from the directory structure in file
shares - In file shares, the subdirectory structure
describes the metadata of a file - the subdirectory names
could be extracted and used as metadata in
SharePoint.
Lazy migration - Maintain synchronized file share and
repository to ease in user migration. Most of the time,
all users can not be trained and migrated to use the
SharePoint repository overnight. Let users use the
familiar file shares environment and migrate gradually to
SharePoint repository. In the enterprise version,
SharePointMigrator can find out what has changed in file
shares after initial migration in an ongoing basis and
migrate the changes in file shares automatically to the
repository. If desired, it can take new objects out of the
repository and make them available as file in the file
shares. SharePointMigrator allows for coexistence of file
share along with its SharePoint repository.
Centralized database for tracking and monitoring - In
the enterprise version of the SharePointMigrator, all data
movement is captured and maintained through a centralize
database. From this database, ongoing use of migrated file
shares by users are monitored and then the file shares are
de-commissioned at appropriate time.
From the migration pre-staging area, files could be
migrated to SharePoint using freely available tools that
puts the entire content of the file shares in the
SharePoint repository. In the enterprise version of
SharePointMigrator, invocation of these migration programs
could be integrated under the console.
To manage migration in enterprise environment with
thousands of file shares in hundreds of file servers, multiple
SharePointMigrator could be deployed as necessary and there
operational information could be consolidated in a central
database.
SharePointMigrator is available in
a pay as you go model that is suitable for both SMBs and enterprises.
SharePointMigrator
Price
How to buy
SharePointMigrator-Free
The free version of the software provides migration
preparation for up to 5000 files.
For processing additional files, purchase various
size usage packs based on your need.
Free
Registration required.
SharePointMigrator
50K Pack
A 50K pack provides migration preparation of an additional 50K
files from one or more file shares in the network.
To process more files, you can buy additional packs
as needed. For larger
environments, larger size packs are available at
relatively cheaper price as follows.
$150
Quantity:
SharePointMigrator
250K Pack
A 250K pack provides migration preparation of an additional 250K
files from file shares in the network.
$500
SharePointMigrator
500K Pack
A 500K pack provides migration preparation of additional 500K files from
file share in the network.
$900
SharePointMigrator
1M Pack
A 1M pack provides migration preparation of additional one million
files from the file shares in the network.
$1500
SharePointMigrator
5M Pack
A 5M pack provides migration preparation of additional
five million files from
the file shares in the network.
$6000
SharePointMigrator-Enterprise
Enterprises may have numerous file servers that requires
migration of file shares to SharePoint repository! You
can have multiple installations of SharePointMigrator,
each supporting a number of servers, but the information produced by the
individual installations are not centralized. BlueSAN
provides server components through which information
from individual SharePointMigrator
is maintained in a
centralized database. Apart from the centralization, in
enterprise environment, for various requirements, it may
be necessary to maintain file objects simultaneously
both in the file shares and SharePoint repository. The
enterprise version keeps the parallel environments
synchronized.
Please contact us for pricing for deployment in this
centralized environment.
