Backup/restore situations are often ones that bite people in the ass when they least expect it to. In this situation, I would not opt to put that to the test unless it was absolutely a neccessity.
-- Espi On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Kent McKinney <[email protected]>wrote: > Even if you swap one drive at a time and get the virtual disk size > increased, the OS partition would also need to be resized. Its time > consuming and will greatly affect server performance. Safest way is to > install the server backup feature, do a system state backup, pull the old > drives out (with existing data intact that you can always roll back to) > create the new array and restore. > > --- Original Message --- > > From: "Maglinger, Paul" <[email protected]> > Sent: April 28, 2014 5:34 PM > To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> > Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: server migration w/new HDs > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > --_000_36DA94300D69184A91500B695547A148481711CCCOMSTAR1scvlcom_ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I just talked with someone about a similar situation. > HP-UX server running 2 72G mirrored drives and had one fail. The vendor > su= > bbed a 146G drive. In this case it would rebuild to only 72G of the 146 > dr= > ive, but the vendor said that if the other 72 drive failed and was > replaced= > with the 146 then I could extend it to the full 146 at that point > . > I have not tested this, and am not sure if it would work, but wondering if > = > you could replace the drives one at a time allowing for the rebuild. I > did= > something similar with a EVA SAN and was successful. It took a long > time,= > but I didn't have to take the system down. I'm not sure I'd risk it on a > = > production system. > Can you do a system level backup/restore? > > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]= > ] On Behalf Of Jesse Rink > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 4:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] server migration w/new HDs > > > Have a Dell T310 server with (4) 1TB sas drives in a RAID5 array, running > W= > indows 2008R2. Need to replace the drives with (4) 2TB sas drives in a > RAI= > D5 array. Server only holds 4 physical HD bays so I can't just add an > ex= > tra array. Curious if anyone has any tricks to speeding up this migration > = > other than rebuilding the OS from scratch on the (4) new 2Tb sas drives > and= > reinstalling all the app > s on the server, etc. > > > > JR > > > > > > > --_000_36DA94300D69184A91500B695547A148481711CCCOMSTAR1scvlcom_ > Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" > xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-micr= > osoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" > = > xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml"; > xmlns=3D"http:= > //www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> > <head> > <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; > charset=3Dus-ascii"= > > > <meta name=3D"Generator" content=3D"Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"> > <style><!-- > /* Font Definitions */ > @font-face > {font-family:Calibri; > panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} > @font-face > {font-family:Tahoma; > panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} > /* Style Definitions */ > p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal > {margin:0in; > margin-bottom:.0001pt; > font-size:12.0pt; > font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} > a:link, span.MsoHyperlink > {mso-style-priority:9 > 9; > color:blue; > text-decoration:underline;} > a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed > {mso-style-priority:99; > color:purple; > text-decoration:underline;} > p > {mso-style-priority:99; > margin:0in; > margin-bottom:.0001pt; > font-size:12.0pt; > font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} > p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate > {mso-style-priority:99; > mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char"; > margin:0in; > margin-bottom:.0001pt; > font-size:8.0pt; > font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} > span.BalloonTextChar > {mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char"; > mso-style-priority:99; > mso-style-link:"Balloon Text"; > font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} > p.msochpdefault, li.msochpdefault, div.msochpdefault > {mso-style-name:msochpdefault; > margin:0in; > margin-bottom:.0001pt; > font-size:10.0pt; > font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} > span.balloontextchar0 > {mso-style-name:balloontextchar; > font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} > span.emailstyle20 > {mso-style-name:emailstyle20; > font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; > > color:#1F497D;} > span.emailstyle21 > {mso-style-name:emailstyle21; > font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; > color:#1F497D;} > span.emailstyle22 > {mso-style-name:emailstyle22; > font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; > color:#1F497D;} > span.emailstyle23 > {mso-style-name:emailstyle23; > font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; > color:#1F497D;} > span.emailstyle24 > {mso-style-name:emailstyle24; > font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; > color:#1F497D;} > span.emailstyle25 > {mso-style-name:emailstyle25; > font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; > color:#1F497D;} > span.emailstyle26 > {mso-style-name:emailstyle26; > font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; > color:#1F497D; > font-weight:normal; > font-style:normal; > text-decoration:none none;} > span.emailstyle27 > {mso-style-name:emailstyle27; > font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; > color:#1F497D;} > span.EmailStyle30 > {mso-style-type:personal-reply; > color:black;} > .MsoChpDefault > {mso-style-type:export-only; > font-size:10.0pt;} > @page WordSection1 > {size:8.5in 11.0in; > margi > n:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;} > div.WordSection1 > {page:WordSection1;} > --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> > <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" /> > </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> > <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> > <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" /> > </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> > </head> > <body lang=3D"EN-US" link=3D"blue" vlink=3D"purple"> > <div class=3D"WordSection1"> > <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color:black">I just talked with > someo= > ne about a similar situation. > <o:p></o:p></span></p> > <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color:black">HP-UX server running 2 > 7= > 2G mirrored drives and had one fail. The vendor subbed a 146G > drive.&= > nbsp; In this case it would rebuild to only 72G of the 146 drive, but the > v= > endor said that if the other 72 drive failed and > was replaced with the 146 then I could extend it to the full 146 at that > p= > oint.<o:p></o:p></span></p> > <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color:black">I have not tested this, > = > and am not sure if > it would work, but wondering if you could replace the dr= > ives one at a time allowing for the rebuild. I did something similar > = > with a EVA SAN and was successful. It took > a long time, but I didn’t have to take the system down. > I̵= > 7;m not sure I’d risk it on a production > system.<o:p></o:p></span></p= > > > <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color:black">Can you do a system > leve= > l backup/restore?<o:p></o:p></span></p> > <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span > style=3D"color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span>= > </p> > <div> > <div style=3D"border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in > = > 0in 0in"> > <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><b><span > style=3D"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"= > ;Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span > style=3D"font-s= > ize:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> > listsadm= > [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jesse Rink<br> > <b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 28, 2014 4:07 PM< > br> > <b>To:</b> [email protected]<br> > <b>Subject:</b> [NTSysADM] server migration w/new HDs<o:p></o:p></span></p> > </div> > </div> > <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> > <div> > <p><span > style=3D"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","san= > s-serif";color:black">Have a Dell T310 server with (4) 1TB sas drives > = > in a RAID5 array, running Windows 2008R2. Need to replace the > drives&= > nbsp;with (4) 2TB sas drives in a RAID5 array. Server > onl= > y holds > 4 physical HD bays so I can't just add an extra array. Curious > = > if anyone has any tricks to speeding up this migration other than > rebuildin= > g the OS from scratch on the (4) new 2Tb sas drives and reinstalling all > th= > e apps on the server, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p> > <p><span > style=3D"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","san= > s-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> > <p><span > style=3D"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","san= > > s-serif";color:black">JR<o:p></o:p></span></p> > <p><span > style=3D"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","san= > s-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> > <p><span > style=3D"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","san= > s-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> > </div> > </div> > </body> > </html> > > > --_000_36DA94300D69184A91500B695547A148481711CCCOMSTAR1scvlcom_-- > > > > >
