Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to IO initiator aware data migration. A set of statistical metrics for a replica of a data block on a first node of a plurality of nodes is obtained. The first set of statistical metrics is associated with read operations on the replica. The read operations are operations initiated by a second node of the plurality of nodes. If it is determined that a first statistical metric in the set of statistical metrics exceeds a predefined threshold, the replica is migrated from the first node to the second node.