SBS 2003 storage upgrade
This is for our church so budget is really tight right now. We have a 2003 sbs system, running exchange, quickbooks and a power church app. Drive d holds the exchange database, all the user file shares and is almost full. Currently the server has one 80gig drive partitioned as C: 20 gig, D: the rest. Here is my plan to upgrade it. Do you think it will work or are there better/simpler options. I have a cheapio IDE raid card and 2 larger drives. I plan to shutdown the system, install the card and drives, boot and run the bios on the card to set up the two new drive as raid 1. Then boot into windows so that the OS can find the new card and install the drivers. I'll then set all the exchange services to manual or disabled, disable starting of the qb and power church software. Shut down the system and then boot with my copy of UBCD, use one of the tools to copy the existing D partition to the new raid 1 array I've just created, resizing in the process. When that is done, reboot the machine into windows, use disk manager to swap the existing D drive to the new larger one, make sure the shares are correct and then restart exchange, QB and power church. This would leave C on the original drive, and d on the new larger array. Not my first choice, but the two drives are free, they but aren't large enough to hold C and D and still have much room to grow. Or second scenario. Same server, but I also have cheapio sata card and 2 even larger hard drives. I'd like to clone the entire server to these two larger hard drives, expanding the c and d partitions and only end up with two drives in the system. I know I can use the UBCD to clone and resize the drives, but I'm doubting windows would boot from the new controller and drives. Any ideas or tried and true solutions would be appreciated. Glen. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: SBS 2003 storage upgrade
I vote for plan three, it seems simpler. Add the new drives and leave the old D drive in place and move user files or the exchange stores to that drive. Whichever is the largest. If it is the user files just robocopy them over then delete the old ones from the D drive leaving the new free space for the exchange stores. If it is the exchange stores you want to movemake new stores on the new drive and move the mailboxes over and delete the old stores after you are done. You can schedule the mailbox move at 2 am. It will do it while everyone, including you are asleep. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 8:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS 2003 storage upgrade This is for our church so budget is really tight right now. We have a 2003 sbs system, running exchange, quickbooks and a power church app. Drive d holds the exchange database, all the user file shares and is almost full. Currently the server has one 80gig drive partitioned as C: 20 gig, D: the rest. Here is my plan to upgrade it. Do you think it will work or are there better/simpler options. I have a cheapio IDE raid card and 2 larger drives. I plan to shutdown the system, install the card and drives, boot and run the bios on the card to set up the two new drive as raid 1. Then boot into windows so that the OS can find the new card and install the drivers. I'll then set all the exchange services to manual or disabled, disable starting of the qb and power church software. Shut down the system and then boot with my copy of UBCD, use one of the tools to copy the existing D partition to the new raid 1 array I've just created, resizing in the process. When that is done, reboot the machine into windows, use disk manager to swap the existing D drive to the new larger one, make sure the shares are correct and then restart exchange, QB and power church. This would leave C on the original drive, and d on the new larger array. Not my first choice, but the two drives are free, they but aren't large enough to hold C and D and still have much room to grow. Or second scenario. Same server, but I also have cheapio sata card and 2 even larger hard drives. I'd like to clone the entire server to these two larger hard drives, expanding the c and d partitions and only end up with two drives in the system. I know I can use the UBCD to clone and resize the drives, but I'm doubting windows would boot from the new controller and drives. Any ideas or tried and true solutions would be appreciated. Glen. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: SBS 2003 storage upgrade
On your 2nd scenario, I would install the drivers, first, so when you get everything transfered Windows will see your card. On Nov 1, 2010 8:47 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: This is for our church so budget is really tight right now. We have a 2003 sbs system, running exchange, quickbooks and a power church app. Drive d holds the exchange database, all the user file shares and is almost full. Currently the server has one 80gig drive partitioned as C: 20 gig, D: the rest. Here is my plan to upgrade it. Do you think it will work or are there better/simpler options. I have a cheapio IDE raid card and 2 larger drives. I plan to shutdown the system, install the card and drives, boot and run the bios on the card to set up the two new drive as raid 1. Then boot into windows so that the OS can find the new card and install the drivers. I’ll then set all the exchange services to manual or disabled, disable starting of the qb and power church software. Shut down the system and then boot with my copy of UBCD, use one of the tools to copy the existing D partition to the new raid 1 array I’ve just created, resizing in the process. When that is done, reboot the machine into windows, use disk manager to swap the existing D drive to the new larger one, make sure the shares are correct and then restart exchange, QB and power church. This would leave C on the original drive, and d on the new larger array. Not my first choice, but the two drives are free, they but aren’t large enough to hold C and D and still have much room to grow. Or second scenario. Same server, but I also have cheapio sata card and 2 even larger hard drives. I’d like to clone the entire server to these two larger hard drives, expanding the c and d partitions and only end up with two drives in the system. I know I can use the UBCD to clone and resize the drives, but I’m doubting windows would boot from the new controller and drives. Any ideas or tried and true solutions would be appreciated. Glen. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: SBS 2003 storage upgrade
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: I’ll then set all the exchange services to manual or disabled, disable starting of the qb and power church software. Shut down the system and then boot with my copy of UBCD, use one of the tools to copy the existing D partition to the new raid 1 array I’ve just created, resizing in the process. As long as all services are stopped, you should be able to do the file copy from Windows. Just ROBOCOPY from D:\ to x:\, then use Device Manager to swap the drive letters. I know I can use the UBCD to clone and resize the drives, but I’m doubting windows would boot from the new controller and drives. There's a way to install and enable additional boot-time drivers, so you can migrate to a new storage controller. You have to do it in advance of the change. I know SYSPREP can do it, but that's not what you want here. Maybe someone else can chime in on this one. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: SBS 2003 storage upgrade
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Daniel Rodriguez drod...@gmail.com wrote: On your 2nd scenario, I would install the drivers, first, so when you get everything transfered Windows will see your card. IIRC, you have to do something special to tell Windows to load the drivers at boot time. It's not enough to just install them. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
