Depending in the PowerVault it may be both.  Our 201 it was on both and was
still good after a move, but then I blew the drive anyway as the data was
out of date.  Our 220 also had it both places but I did not want the setup
and was changing it any way with adding of drives and other changes.

Jon

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:14 AM, John Hornbuckle <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The new server has its own controller.
>
> I was thinking that the config info was actually stored in the
> PowerVault, and could be loaded from it on to the new controller. I
> can't recall why I thought that--some past experience I had. It's hazy
> now.
>
> I can rebuild and restore if I have to. But unless there's some
> advantage to doing that, I'd rather not--it would save time and
> headache.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:09 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
>  Subject: RE: Moving a PowerVault
>
> If you are moving the controller card along with it then you don't have
> any worries, it contains all the drive configuration.  If you're just
> moving the array then I don't really know.  Someone else could probably
> answer if a similar controller would detect the drive array.  I assume
> it's a Perc card of some sort.  I would probably rebuild and restore
> anyway.  I'm getting ready to do this myself but I'm going to move the
> Perc card with the array. If the Powervault is only half full of drives
> you could split the backplane on the array and put new drives in and
> connect them to your new server and then just move your files over to
> the other server and then decommission or reuse the old drives.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:03 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Moving a PowerVault
>
> I've got a PowerVault SCSI RAID storage system attached to a server
> that's being decommissioned. I want to move it over to a new replacement
> server. I have no experience doing this, and want to make sure I don't
> screw up the RAID configuration and data on it. Any pointers on how to
> do this?
>
>
>
>
> John Hornbuckle
> MIS Department
> Taylor County School District
> 318 North Clark Street
> Perry, FL 32347
>
> www.taylor.k12.fl.us
>
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