Comparison Matrix for Azure File Migration Program participants
The following comparison matrix shows basic functionality, and comparison of migration tools that participate in Azure File Migration Program.
Supported Azure services
| Data Dynamics | Komprise | |
|---|---|---|
| Solution name | Data Mobility and Migration | Elastic Data Migration |
| Support provided by | Data Dynamics1 | Komprise1 |
| Azure Files support (all tiers) | Yes | Yes |
| Azure NetApp Files support | Yes | Yes |
| Azure Blob Hot / Cool support | Yes | Yes |
| Azure Blob Archive tier support | No | Yes |
| Azure Data Lake Storage support | Yes | Yes |
| Supported Sources | Any NAS, and S3 | Any NAS, Cloud File Storage, or S3 |
Supported protocols (source / destination)
| Data Dynamics | Komprise | |
|---|---|---|
| Solution name | Data Mobility and Migration | Elastic Data Migration |
| SMB 2.1 | Yes | Yes |
| SMB 3.0 | Yes | Yes |
| SMB 3.1 | Yes | Yes |
| NFS v3 | Yes | Yes |
| NFS v4.1 | No | Yes |
| Blob REST API | Yes | Yes |
| S3 | Yes | Yes |
Extended features
| Data Dynamics | Komprise | |
|---|---|---|
| Solution name | Data Mobility and Migration | Elastic Data Migration |
| UID / SID remapping | Yes | No |
| Protocol ACL remapping | No | No |
| DFS Support | Yes | Yes |
| Throttling support | Yes | Yes |
| File pattern exclusions | Yes | Yes |
| Support for selective file attributes | Yes | Yes |
| Delete propagations | Yes | Yes |
| Follow NTFS junctions | No | Yes |
| Override SMB Owner and Group Owner | Yes | No |
| Chain of custody reporting | Yes | Yes |
| Support for alternate data streams | Yes | No |
| Scheduling for migration | Yes | Yes |
| Preserving ACL | Yes | Yes |
| DACL support | Yes | Yes |
| SACL support | Yes | No |
| Preserving access time | Yes | Yes |
| Preserving modified time | Yes | Yes |
| Preserving creation time | Yes | Yes |
| Azure Data Box support | Yes | No |
| Migration of snapshots | Yes | No |
| Symbolic link support | No | Yes |
| Hard link support | Yes | Yes |
| Support for open / locked files | Yes | Yes |
| Incremental migration | Yes | Yes |
| Switchover support | Yes | No (manual only) |
| Other features | Link | Link |
Assessment and reporting
| Data Dynamics | Komprise | |
|---|---|---|
| Solution name | Data Mobility and Migration | Elastic Data Migration |
| Capacity | Yes | Yes |
| # of files / folders | Yes | Yes |
| Age distribution over time | Yes | Yes |
| Access time | Yes | Yes |
| Modified time | Yes | Yes |
| Creation time | Yes | Yes |
| Per file / object report status | Yes | Yes |
Licensing
| Data Dynamics | Komprise | |
|---|---|---|
| Solution name | Data Mobility and Migration | Elastic Data Migration |
| BYOL | Yes | Yes |
| Azure Commitment | Yes | Yes |
Other features
Data Dynamics Data Mobility and Migration
- Hash validation
Komprise Elastic Data Migration
- Project/directory based migrations
- Migration pre-checks with analytics
- Migration planning with analytics
- Assessment / reporting: File types, file size, project based
- Assessment / reporting: Custom metadata-based searches
- Simple UI migration management
- API access to automate large migration jobs
- Automatic retry of failures
- Access time-based analytics for Azure Blob Storage, and S3
- Tagging support
- Support 24 x 7 x 365
- In-product support via chat built-in
- Hash validation
Note
List was last verified on February, 21st 2022.
Next steps
- Azure File Migration Program
- Storage migration overview
- Choose an Azure solution for data transfer
- Migrate to Azure file shares
- Migrate to Data Lake Storage with WANdisco LiveData Platform for Azure
- Copy or move data to Azure Storage with AzCopy
- Migrate large datasets to Azure Blob Storage with AzReplicate (sample application)
Important
1 Support provided by ISV, not Microsoft
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