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S300 to Perc6/i migration
I have a r510 using a s300 raid controller. Since we now need to run VMware esx, I need to migrate to a hardware raid controller, most likely a Perc6.
Question is, can I perform this migration without having to reformat the raid array?
theflash1932
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August 25th, 2011 09:00
There is no direct migration from software RAID to hardware RAID ... you will need to create RAID on the PERC 6, then restore/image data to it.
JOHNADCO
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August 25th, 2011 12:00
Almost be easier to get another host, and do a physical to virtual conversion of the current data. Or maybe you have another host?
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August 25th, 2011 13:00
As you are currently running something other than VMware, you have to do a backup and restore anyway as the filesystem will be something other than VMFS (the only one that ESXi will support for storing (local) VMs).
As JOHNADCO mentioned; a P2V may be a better approach, but it'll require 2 servers (the original server and the new VMware host).