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connecting powervault storage to another server after failure
File1 is a PE and is a file server. Powervault houses all the file server storage and is connected to File1.
If File1 goes down, is it possible to get another PE and name it File1, join to domain, connect the Powervault to this File1 server and have everything up and running such as all the shares with permissons and shares on Powervault intact?
OS is Windows 2003.
Message Edited by hdspec on 09-02-2008 04:47 PM
- If the other Poweredge has a PERC6E as well, then you can shut down the original server, disconnect the MD1120, connect it to the other server's PERC6E, power up the MD1120, power up the Poweredge and it should see the data just fine.
However, shares will need to be re-defined as they are defined in the registry, and not on the virtual disk/filesystem. Dell-Jeff G
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Posted September 5th, 2008 12:00
Permissions configured for the shares will not be transfered.
NTFS permissions on the files and folders are on the disk and will stay in tact.
I typically set share permissions to everyone-full control and then restrict access with NTFS permissions.
- The easiest way to do shares is to set up a root share and then handle the permissions in the file system.
This would mean you can just recreate 1 single share and be fully up and running.
That being said, you may want to check HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\lanmanserver.
Copying registry entries from one system to another isn't always the best choice, but for shares it's usually relatively 'safe'.
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Posted September 4th, 2008 03:00
Powervault is a name for a wide variety of Dell products. Even within Powervault there are different product lines; NAS, SAN, Tape, and DAS.