Techniques for performing data migration may include: receiving host information regarding hosts registered on a source data storage system; issuing registration commands from a host to a target data storage system; determining, at the target data storage system in accordance with the registration commands, a host registration table including a corresponding entry for the host, the corresponding entry denoting a host name for the host and initiators of the host that sent the registration commands; and determining a masking view for the host on the target data storage system, the masking view including an initiator group of the initiators of the host that sent the registration commands to the target data storage system, wherein the masking view is used by the target data storage system to determine whether to service received I/O operations.