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Hard Drive swap

I have a brand new poweredge 2950 with dual quad cores 2.66 in it 3x146 GB drives no OS as of yet

My current Exchange box is a Poweredge 2950 with the following:

2 x dual cores 3.0Ghz and
3 x 300GB in RAID5
Windows 2003 R2 32Bit
Exchange 2003 SP2

I want to pull the dirves out of the 2950 with my current Exchange system and put them in the new 2950 to get more processing power.

I know this is possible , Do I need to configure anything on the PERC 5i ? I havent done it before and don't really want to break my current exchange box.

Anyone had any experience with this ?

Thanks in Advance.

Paul

Dozer42

One relatively easy solution is to use the Enterprise version of Acronis TrueImage.

It's great at backing up a full system and restoring to 'bare metal' (completely different hardware, allowing windows drivers to be reinstalled for things like new disc arrays, etc).

Either way, backup twice, restore once. ;)

ArmstrongInt

ASKER

Thanks for that, but that will cost â‚¬699, I would prefer to avoid spending monies.

P

SysExpert

If the Perc controllers are the same, and have the same firmware, then this should work.

I would definitely backup the data just in case, but the config data should be on the drives.

Have you checked the Dell site and support to see what they say ?

I hope this helps !

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