Re: Replicating Drives to use for Development Instances
From: Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] (rod_at_die.spam.die.nw-america.com)
Date: 02/02/05
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:02:22 -0600
Download dumpcfg, with the -S you can write a new Disk Signature :)
Cheers,
Rod
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"Theron Daniels" <tdaniels-remove-@penson.com> wrote in message
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>I am trying to design a disaster recovery implementation using Microsoft
> server 2003. The simplified design is to have 2 sites (site A primary and
> site B failover) and a cluster with one node at each site. We will be
> using a
> SAN with realtime replication between the two sites for the cluster drive
> connection. What we would also like to be able to do is this-- On site A
> server have the production resource group, On site B have the failover for
> production and a development instance (non-failover) on the same system.
> So
> far not a problem, just make another Cluster resource for development.
> The problem is this. For Development we want to use a cloned disk from
> the
> production instance to test against. This is done at the SAN appliance
> level
> but the disk is an exact copy of production including the disk signature.
> Since the development instance is sitting on the same system as the
> production failover instance the server will recognize that volume as
> being
> the production volume and not use it. Is it possible to (through
> scripting
> or other means) to change the disk signature or do something that will
> allow
> the import of that volume to use in development?
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