My experience... although the help documentation that comes with Win2kPro
suggests that it can handle mirroring, In reality, we had to upgrade a
particular box to Win2kServer in order to accomplish software mirroring,
as well as "upgrading" the disks to dynamic. BTW, This was not partition
mirroring, but entire disk mirroring.
Russ Braaten, MCSE, MCP+I
> Windows 2000 Advanced server is NOT required to do this. Win2k Server
> "Standard edition" handles software disk mirroring just fine. (Win2k Pro
> does as well)
> However, I believe you will need to:
> - break the existing mirror before upgrading the OS
> - upgrade the OS to Win2k
> - upgrade the disks to "Dynamic"
> - then re-establish the mirror.
>
>
> _____________________
> Phil Pettifer
> Systems Administration
> Open Text Corporation
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 4:47 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Mirro Set Query
>
>
> I posted this elsewhere with no replies - maybe someone knows? Thanks
>
> A user wrote (Windows 2000 /May 2001 pg. 21) that "If your Windows NT
> Server 4.0 systems have mirrored drives, be aware of the following
> upgrade gotcha. We have several servers running NT Server 4.0, and we
> want to upgrade them to Windows 2000 Server. However, each server has at
> least one pair of mirrored drives, and Win2K Server doesn't support this
> configuration. To maintain our infrastructure, we must migrate to Win2K
> Advanced Server at several times the price of the migration to Win2K
> Server."
> I can not find any mention of this at MS site or product doc. We want to
> set up our W2K Servers with 2 mirror sets (i.e. 4 drives total one set
> using 2 drives for "C" and one set using 2 drives for "d". Can this be
> done with W2K Server or do we need advanced server? Thanks!
>
>
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