text: **7.8.16 Migrating a volume**
  
  You might want to migrate volumes from one set of MDisks to another set of MDisks to 
  decommission an old disk subsystem to better distribute load across your virtualized 
  environment, or to migrate data into the IBM Spectrum Virtualize environment by using image 
  mode. For more information about migration, see Chapter 9, “Storage migration” on 
  page 385. 
  
  **Important:**After migration is started, it continues until completion unless it is stopped or 
  suspended by an error condition or the volume that is being migrated is deleted. 
  
  As you can see from the parameters that are shown in Example 7-29, before you can migrate 
  your volume, you must determine the name of the volume that you want to migrate and the 
  name of the storage pool to which you want to migrate it. To list the names of volumes and 
  storage pools, run the**lsvdisk**and**lsmdiskgrp**commands. 
  
  The command that is shown in Example 7-29 moves volume_C to the storage pool named 
  STGPool_DS5000-1. 
  
  Example 7-29 The migratevdisk command 
  
  IBM_2145:ITSO_CLUSTER:superuser>migratevdisk -mdiskgrp STGPool_DS5000-1 -vdisk volume_C 