2010-08-20 16:52 keltezéssel, Andrew Deason írta: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:17:36 +0100 > Simon Wilkinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 20 Aug 2010, at 15:05, Gémes Géza wrote: >> >> >>> The data is on a Coraid SAN, so it will be >>> simply unmounted from the old fileservers, and mounted to the new ones, >>> but what operations would we need to perform on the ubik data? >>> >> If you do want to go down this route, you will need to update the VLDB >> location for every volume that has changed fileservers. vos syncvldb >> and vos syncserv should do this for you - but there will be a period >> of outage for all of your clients. >> > I think you can technically avoid this if you turn off the old > fileserver. If you move (not copy) the sysid file along with the > volumes, when the new server starts up it will register its addresses as > the addresses to go to for the existing VLDB entries for the volumes you > moved. > > But if you don't really know what you are doing, something _will_ go > wrong and you will be sad. So use vos :) > > Initially I've planed to use the same ip address for the new server as the old had. But maybe vos move is a better approach. I have an almost empty partition, which I will empty up and reattach to the new server. My only remaining concern is about the db migration, as I intend to shut down the old servers.
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