Storage change - storage partition move of closed partition

Hi there,

We´ve to demount an old storage, where the active storagepartition is located.

As the EV-storage is an old direct attached (SCIS) MSA - shared via fileserver to the EV, there´s no possibility to "Migrate" data to the new FC-Storage.

So i´ve to copy all the data (~4TB) via the host to host :( .

My Question:

What would be the best practise:

open an new store on new storage -> modify archiving to the new store

close the old store and robocopy it to new location (TECH35742)

or are there any (better) ideas?

Environment:

EV11.0.1 on ESX 5.1

partition stored via Netshare ( \\fileser\share ) on MSA60

please advise, brgds manuel