Hi Ken, On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 05:36:39PM -0700, Ken Nishimura wrote:
> I'm halfway through a disk migration to increase space and now want to > poll the group before proceeding... > > OLD: One virtual disk (Virtual Disk 0) comprised of two 146 GB physical drives > in controller slots 0 and 1. This was the system disk. > > WANT: One virtual disk (named Virtual Disk 0) comprised of two 300 GB > physical drives in controller slots 0 and 1. This will be the new system > disk. > > Steps taken so far: > > 1) Inserted two 300 GB physical drives in controller slots 2 and 3 and > created Virtual Disk 1. > > 2) Copied all the info from Virtual Disk 0 to Virtual Disk 1. > > 3) Rebooted into PERC BIOS, and: > > a) Forced offline the two 146 GB drives. This made VD0 disappear > as expected. > > b) Physically removed the two 146 GB drives. > > 4) This worked fine. Machine rebooted and now on a larger virtual disk. > > What I want may seem petty, but I'd like to move the two physical disks > from slots 2 and 3 back into slots 0 and 1, and rename the VD from > Virtual Disk 1 to Virtual Disk 0. > > The rename is trivial, but moving disks scares me. Am I correct in > fearing that if I were to force offline the two drives and move them > from slots 2/3 into slots 0/1, that things would go awry? > > What is the safe way (if any) of moving the disks? Simply power off the machine, pull all disks, insert in desired order. The controller should pick them up - slot position does not matter since config is stored on disk. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
