Abstract: Migrating a source volume from a source appliance to a destination appliance, wherein the source volume is assigned to an asymmetric namespace access (ANA) group and initially exposed to a host computer as accessible at the source appliance, includes creating a destination volume on the destination appliance and expanding the ANA group to include the destination volume, with the ANA group initially exposing the destination volume as inaccessible to the host computer at the destination appliance. Subsequently, the destination volume is synchronized to the source volume and then a cutover is performed that includes (i) copying volume metadata including host reservations from the source volume to the destination volume, and (ii) changing the ANA group to expose the source volume as inaccessible at the source appliance and the destination volume as accessible at the destination appliance.