[nflug] Here is something I should know, but I've never tried it in a production environment, so...

[Brian Powell]

If you are transplanting the drive array with the current configured
raid card into the newer server, it should be fine. I would grab a
backup though just to be on the safe side.


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Richard Hubbard <rhubby at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have one older, slower server with CENT OS 5.1 on it.  So far, so good.
>
> I want to move it over to another, newer, physical box.  No problem.
>
> Problem: I have a drive array set up on the old box using an LSI magaraid 6
> SATA card.
>
> Could I just take the physical drives out of the old box, put them into the
> new box, complete with the Megaraid card, and have the CENT OS recognize all
> the different hardware?
>
> // I'm guessing "yes", but I'm worried about the drive array.  That has the
> important data. The boot drive is a pretty generic setup and can be remade
> in minutes.  The raid array would take a few days to rebuild.
>
> Richard Hubbard
> ATTO Technology Inc
>
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Regards,
Brian