If you do it that way, I would make sure
you’ve got the network cable unplugged when you boot it after
imaging. Depending on what you are using the server for it could cause
problems. I had a customer follow this path with a
domain controller. He booted the server from the old drives after copying
the image to the new drive set, and then booted it from the new drives.
Active Directory considered this an abnormal USN rollback, and gave him all
kinds of fits. It took me at least an hour getting replication working
again. Don’t plug the network cable back in until you are sure you
have the server ready to go. Kevin From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blair, James James, Have been in a similar
situation on numerous occasions with HP ML350 G3/G4’s. In our case we
installed a firewire card and a Lacie drive or utilised the native USB to
portable HD and Acronis True Image. We imaged the disks and then pulled them
out and put the new ones in and imaged it back, works nicely…This
solution even worked for an Exchange server and if it all fails you can simply
put the old disks back in and be back where you started… James From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Carter Hi, I have a HP ML370 Proliant Server. It currently has 4
x 36GB in a RAID 5 set. I want to upgrade the disk capacity of this server. I
have bought 4 x 300gb disks as replacements. At present I have 4 x 36GB disks in the server. I was
told I could replace one disk in the RAID with a 300GB, let the raid
rebuild and do the next disk. Repeat until all of the disks are 300GB and
then I can look in the ACU and create a second logical drive that sees all that
new space. Can this be done? Anyone know how long it would take
to rebuild? currently there is 90gb used in the current volume. My other alternative is to buy a Tape Drive, backup,
break array, create new array and then restore but this department don't want
any downtime. Anyway shed some light as to which is the best method
to take? thanks James __________________________________________________ |
- [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk array expansion James Carter
- RE: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk array expansion Blair, James
- RE: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk array expansion Derek Harris
- RE: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk array expansion Kevin Brunson
- RE: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk array expansion David Cliffe
- RE: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk array expansion Ed Buford
- RE: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk array expansion neil.ruston
- Re: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk array expansion Matt Hargraves
- RE: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk array expansion Ed Buford