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

[Richard Hubbard]

Good old fashioned partition mounting (We don't need no stinkin' LVM!). The raid is hardware through the megaraid card, so as long as the flash remembers it's stuff, I shouldn't have a problem.

The raid partition is 3 virtual machines, 2 running, and the rest of the machine is pretty plain jane, with VMWare server installed.  One of the vm's is huge, though.(250 gb), so it would be much nicer if I didn't have to rebuild it.

I checked with a couple of people here, and they seem to be of the opinion that it should work.

Cross your fingers!

 <span style="font-family:comic sans ms;">Richard Hubbard </span>
ATTO Technology Inc



----- Original Message ----
From: Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 3:25:01 PM
Subject: Re: [nflug] Here is something I should know, but I've never tried it in a production environment, so...

I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't work but without knowing 
how everything is setup, LVM, raid, etc, it's only an informed guess. 
I'd make sure you have a full level 0 backup before you start playing 
around with this, just in case.

Richard Hubbard 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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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
Phone: 716-633-3463
Email: darinper at cognigencorp.com
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