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The following comparison matrix shows basic functionality of different tools that can be used for migration of unstructured data.

Supported Azure services

Microsoft Datadobi Data Dynamics Komprise Atempo
Solution name Azure File Sync DobiMigrate Data Mobility and Migration Elastic Data Migration Miria
Support provided by Microsoft Datadobi1 Data Dynamics1 Komprise1 Atempo1
Azure Files support (all tiers) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Azure NetApp Files support No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Azure Blob Hot / Cool support No Yes (via NFS ) Yes Yes Yes
Azure Blob Archive tier support No No No Yes Yes
Azure Data Lake Storage support No No Yes Yes No
Supported Sources Windows Server 2012 R2 and up NAS & cloud file systems Any NAS, and S3 Any NAS, Cloud File Storage, or S3 Any NAS, S3, PFS, and Swift

Supported protocols (source / destination)

Microsoft Datadobi Data Dynamics Komprise Atempo
Solution name Azure File Sync DobiMigrate Data Mobility and Migration Elastic Data Migration Atempo
SMB 2.1 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SMB 3.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SMB 3.1 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
NFS v3 No Yes Yes Yes Yes
NFS v4.1 No Yes No Yes Yes
Blob REST API No No Yes Yes Yes
S3 No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Extended features

Microsoft Datadobi Data Dynamics Komprise Atempo
Solution name Azure File Sync DobiMigrate Data Mobility and Migration Elastic Data Migration Atempo
UID / SID remapping No Yes Yes No No
Protocol ACL remapping No No No No No
DFS Support Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Throttling support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
File pattern exclusions No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Support for selective file attributes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Delete propagations Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Follow NTFS junctions No Yes No Yes Yes
Override SMB Owner and Group Owner Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Chain of custody reporting No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Support for alternate data streams No Yes Yes No Yes
Scheduling for migration No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Preserving ACL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DACL support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SACL support Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Preserving access time Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Preserving modified time Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Preserving creation time Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Azure Data Box support Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Migration of snapshots No Manual Yes No No
Symbolic link support No Yes No Yes Yes
Hard link support No Migrated as separate files Yes Yes Yes
Support for open / locked files Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Incremental migration Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Switchover support No Yes Yes No (manual only) Yes
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Assessment and reporting

Microsoft Datadobi Data Dynamics Komprise Atempo
Solution name Azure File Sync DobiMigrate Data Mobility and Migration Elastic Data Migration Atempo
Capacity No Yes Yes Yes Yes
# of files / folders No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Age distribution over time No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Access time No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Modified time No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Creation time No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Per file / object report status Partial Yes Yes Yes Yes

Licensing

Microsoft Datadobi Data Dynamics Komprise Atempo
Solution name Azure File Sync DobiMigrate Data Mobility and Migration Elastic Data Migration Atempo
BYOL N / A Yes Yes Yes Yes
Azure Commitment Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Other features

Azure File Sync

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Tip

Azure File Sync can be utilized for migrating data to Azure Files, even if you don't intend to use a hybrid solution for on-premises caching or syncing. This migration process is efficient and causes no downtime. To use Azure File Sync as a migration tool, simply deploy it and, after the migration is finished, remove the server endpoint.

Datadobi DobiMigrate

  • Migration pre checks
  • Migration Planning
  • Dry Run for cut over testing
  • Detect and alert on target side user activity prior to cut over
  • Policy driven migrations
  • Scheduled copy iterations
  • Configurable options for handling root directory security
  • On-demand verification runs
  • Data read back verification on source and destination
  • Graphical, interactive error handling workflow
  • Ability to restrict certain operations from propagating like deletes and updates
  • Ability to preserve access time on the source (in addition to destination)
  • Ability to execute rollback to source during migration switchover
  • Ability to migrate selected SMB file attributes
  • Ability to clean NTFS security descriptors
  • Ability to override NFSv3 permissions and write new mode bits to target
  • Ability to convert NFSv3 POSIX draft ACLS to NFSv4 ACLS
  • SMB 1 (CIFS)
  • Browser-based access
  • REST API support for configuration, and migration management
  • Support 24 x 7 x 365

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

Atempo Miria

  • Custom metadata management
  • Automation through API
  • Petabyte-scale data movements
  • Hash validation

Note

List was last verified on February, 21st 2022.

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