SAN Storage Migration with Hyper-V 2008 R2 CSV

Dears
Our customer has configured 2 node Hyper-V Cluster with CSV connected to an Old SAN Storage The Host Operating System is Windows 2008 R2.
We are planning to migrate the data from the old storage to the new storage. ( Both Storage boxes are connected via Fiber)
With regard to the Migration can we do the below if so please provide some guidelines related to the Hyper-V queries.
(We are trying to avoid the Storage based migration)
- Connect the new storage to the servers
- Create the LUN same as in the old storage and assign it to the servers
- Create a new CSV and point it to the new luns in the Failover Cluster Manager
- Use the export/import function to move the VM's from the new storage to the old storage
- Once all the vm's are moved create a new LUN for the quorum and re-configure the cluster to use the new quorum
Are the above steps will perform a error-free migration if so
- Can we delete the old CSV and dismount the old storage at this stage.
Also these VM's (Exchange and SQL) has seperate LUN's assigned for the Exchange and SQL data , Does these data will be exported when we use the export/import feature of the Hyper-V to migrate the virtual machine
Your Valuable response in this regard is highly appreciated.
Regards
Muralee

Dear All
Thanks for your valuable reply.
And I was able to successfully migrate the cluster and below are the steps i performed
* Initialized the SAN storage and assigned the LUN to both servers.
* Logged in to the server which is the current owner of the csv's and disks
* Initialized the disks as GPT and formatted the LUN without a drive letter.
* Added to the Hyper-V Cluster as disks
* Added to the CSV
* Exported the VM to the new disks
* Deleted the VM from Hyper-V console(Which will not delete any VM files)
* Imported the VM (chosed the default settings in the wizard)
* Added the VM as a service Failover Cluster Manager.
* After completely moving the VM's created a new LUN for the quorrum and changed the quorrum configuration to the new disk.
* Removed the Old Storage and restarted the cluster checked for the VM's functionality everything was fine.
NOTE1 :- I faced a difficulty in multipathing software as he was using the EMC Powerpath and I had to remove it and enable Widows MPIO .
Anybody who are facing a similar scenario please send a note I would be glad to share the experience.
NOTE2 :- I tried all the SAN migration options from the storage Vendor but this method was able to do the migration in a much easier and confident manner.
Regards

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