If the machine is set to use a static IP address then nothing changes. If you use DHCP, you need to update your reservation...
Hardware standardization is a beautiful thing! -Brian -----Original Message----- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 3:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: swapping HDs in servers Brian, So how do you handle the Network and different macs? I guess there is no easy way to automate this, you just manually log on and clean that up? jlc > -----Original Message----- > From: Webb, Brian (Corp) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 1:57 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: swapping HDs in servers > > We do this all the time. You can just move the drives over to the > other chassis without any changes or any issues. > > The HP RAID controllers are really smart about this - the > configuration is stored on both the RAID controller and the drives - > it checks both on startup and figures out what is right based on what > it sees. If things don't all match it may prompt you to tell it which > is right, but if all the drives match each other it will go with what > the drives say it should be. > > We take advantage of this in our strategy for handling hardware > failures. We have hot spare machines sitting in the racks and if a > production server fails for any reason we swap the chassis with a hot > spare - that way we get the server back up and running in the shortest > time possible - we can muck around with the bad chassis later. > > > -Brian > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 1:22 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: swapping HDs in servers > > > Been awhile since I done this... any reason this shouldn't work? > > I have an HP ML350 G3 server (about 3-4 years ago) that is acting up. > I > think it's hardware related. I have an unused (retired) HP ML350 G3 > server laying around. I'd like to take the (2) physical hard drives > from the problematic server (configured as RAID1) and install them in > the unused retired server. > > I'm thinking the second server should recongnize a RAID1 configuration > on the drive and boot up without a problem. > > Any problems with this theory? > > J > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com - Microsoft(r) Exchange solutions from a leading provider > - > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
