Moving LUNs between hosts

Question

As one of the DR tests, we are planning to move LUNs from one windows server to other. I have already done this in my prv working env for tech refresh but that was between solaris hosts using Veritas volume manager. The moved LUNs are intact and Unix admin was able to configure them. Here We dont have Veritas volume manager and think uses native volume manager. Would there be any data loss if windows admin reconfig the moved LUNs ? thanks

John Toner · Accepted Answer

As others have stated, it should be OK to move LUNs from one Windows server to another. If you are using Basic disks, this shouldn't be an issue. If you are using Dynamic disks on your Windows host, there is some potential for issues...especially if you have both local dynamic disks as well as SAN dynamic disks on either of the hosts. Another item to note is that when you initially present the disks to the DR Windows host, if you are using Enterprise or Datacenter versions of Windows, the disks will not automatically mount if the have not been presented to the host previously. You will need to manually assign a drive letter to these disks before you see them properly in Disk Manager. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834911 for more details.Hope this helps

dynamox · Answer

if they are not part of cluster configuration ..you should not have any problems. Once you move them to another host you might have to re-assign the drive letter but other than that it should be ok. I had issues with moving LUNs that were disk resources in MS clustering and were not reclaimed properly, so scsi reserves had to be removed by EMC.

Moving LUNs between hosts

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