Patent ID: 8341251

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored thereon, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to: perform a snapshot of a current configuration of an old storage area network (SAN) component that is to be replaced; retrieve configuration rules for configuring a new SAN component for replacement of the old SAN component based on an identification of the old SAN component and the new SAN component; present, via a graphical display, guidance to a user for replacing the old SAN component with the new SAN component based on the retrieved configuration roles; obtain an initial configuration of the new SAN component, wherein the initial configuration of the new SAN component is different from the current configuration of the old SAN component; present, via the graphical display, a comparison of the snapshot of the current configuration of the old SAN component with the initial configuration of the new SAN component to the user, wherein the comparison identifies a set of differences in configuration between the current configuration of the old SAN component and the initial configuration of the new SAN component; receive from the user a user selection of at least one configuration item in the set of differences in configuration to be replicated from the old SAN component to the new SAN component; and re-configure the new SAN component with the at least one configuration item in response to the user selection of the at least one configuration item in the set of differences in configuration to replicate to the new SAN component.