I would also be concerned about the possibility of losing data whenever manipulating partition sizes. Definitely the safest (and possibly the fastest) would be to do as Kent suggested.
Regards, Hank Arnold My Blog: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/ Twitter: @Hank_PCDoc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hank.arnold.96 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kent McKinney Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 6:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: server migration w/new HDs 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
