Re: SBS 2003 Server Hardware upgrade - keeping RAID 5 data drive array
- From: "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 22:28:37 -0700
Tricky. I'm going to assume for the moment that your external arrays are off
of a standalone RAID controller that will be moving to the new machine. So,
my suggestion would be to do a swing migration to the new machine. At the
point where you first boot up into Windows Server, before you do any thing
else on the new machine, you need to do some careful drive letter alignment.
If you don't, you'll have problems, I suspect. Once you have the drive
letters assigned, then you can complete the swing. Your new RAID array
should end up with the same drive assignments if at all possible - anything
else could be a problem.
Oh, and the usual caveats - backup, backup, backup. And remember what the
old and wise system administrator once said: No backup is worth a d*** until
it has been verified. And the only verification that means anything at all
is a restore.
--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64
Chuckak wrote:
Need to upgrade server hardware due to performance issues.
Have Mirrored OS (drive F: - not sure why it was built as F:) in the
server on one raid controller. All the data drives are on two more raid
controllers and in external raid arrays. I plan on moving all of these
on to the new server. The new OS mirror is larger capacity on a new
built in RAID controller and are the only new drives in the system.
Exchange and user data is also on the external drives. Should I use
backup or should I just ghost those drives also. If I use drive image or
ghost will the drive letter difference be an issue?
Not sure how to build new server, build from scratch and plug in the raid
controllers and drive arrays. Would I lose the data and have to restore
it to the arrays from ghost image or backup set? Or will the array show
on the new system?
.
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