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Array Migration - Server to Server
Hello, I have an R515 with an H700 PERC up and running. Attached is a 4 disk RAID 5 array. I have a new R510 with an H700 PERC now up and running. Both H700's are at the same firmware level. Can I simply power down the R515 and move the disks over to the R510? Is there a documented method for accomplishing this? Thanks, Tim
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DELL-Chris H
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Posted April 1st, 2014 08:00
Tsull360,
The H700 supports migration of virtual disks from one controller to another without taking the target controller offline. The controller can import RAID virtual disks in optimal, degraded, or partially degraded states. You can't import a virtual disk that is in an offline state. When the controller detects a physical disk with an existing configuration, it flags the physical disk as foreign, and generates an alert indicating that a foreign disk was detected.
To be safe I would start by getting a complete backup anytime you work on the array.
Then perform the following steps to use disk migration:
1) Turn off the system that contains the source controller.
2) Move the appropriate physical disks from the source controller to the
target controller. (The system with the target controller can be online while inserting the
physical disks.) The controller flags the inserted disks as foreign disks.
3) Use OpenManage or the controller BIOS (CTRL-R) to import the foreign
configuration.
4) Ensure that all physical disks that are part of the virtual disk are migrated.
Let me know if this helps.
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