Re: SBS 2003 Upgrade Options
- From: "Larry Struckmeyer [SBS-MVP]" <lstruckmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:30:45 -0400
Hi Scott:
Regarding the licenses. It depends if they are OEM or something else. If OEM, you may not legally transfer them to new hardware, except under the exception of a failed mobo where the source is out of business or unable to provide a replacement.
The age of the hardware is not as important as how well it has been treated. If on clean power, ups and surge protected and shows no errors you should be as good as the day you first turned it on. That is, at some point a critical component on the mobo will fail, we just don't know when. <g>
Power supplies, hard drives are easier and cheaper to replace than entire servers.
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Larry
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"Scott Rymer" <tsrymer/at/hotmail/dot/com> wrote in message news:926CC7C0-547E-43BA-B220-790545F58D65@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Allen... the 5GB is currently holding the pagefile and ClientApps. I could easily move those and use diskpart to extend the partition and put them back. I was confused as to whether or not you could extend a system partition.
Should I be worried about the age of my current hardware?
They've been rock solid since the day I put them in (Dec. 2005)... only had to rebuild a disk a couple times.
"AllenM" <NoReply@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uOD5kqpRKHA.5108@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx1 and 2 are a good approach. For option 1 and depending on what you have on the free 5GB on RAID1 you can delete that partiton and use "diskpart" utility to reclaim the unallocated portion to extend to one 18GB partition.
"Scott Rymer" <tsrymer/at/hotmail/dot/com> wrote in message news:78D9213B-3A40-4BD9-99DE-1A807936CD02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxWe are in need of expanding the storage on our SBS 2003 server (Dell PowerEdge 2800). The RAID 1 C: drive (2x18GB) which Dell kindly partitioned to 12GB+5GB is running on less than 2GB of free space and the RAID 5 D: drive (3x36GB) is getting there also with about 15GB of free space. My options are:
1) Image C: drive, reinit the array at 18GB and apply the image back to an 18GB partition.
2) Image D: drive, remove 3x36GB, add 3 new 146GB drives, reinit array, apply image to 292GB partition.
3) Buy a new server which opens up a whole other can of worms.
While 1) and 2) are the cheapest route, is it the safest?
The hardware is getting old and is no longer under warranty. Since this is our main server at our facility, we cannot afford downtime. We currently have 40 CALs which I assume are non-transferrable as well as a second SQL box which is covered by the 40 SBS CALs but also has 26 CALs for SQL Server 2005 Standard. The licensing will also be a major expense if we are to upgrade the hardware...
Any suggestions?
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