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Help Cloning Configuration DL380 G2
On a DL380 G2, I have a system drive as RAID 1 on SCSI ID=0 and ID=1.
With power off, I removed the drive in ID=1, and put it into an identical DL380 G2 in the ID=1 position, hoping to clone the configuration. The system boots fine on the new computer, but when I stick an identical drive in the ID=0 position it refuses to rebuild to that ID=0 drive. How can I check what is wrong there? The HP Configuration Utility is getting to be pretty useless and feels like it has gone backwards in the feature set in the last five years. I don't seem to have very much control at all over the array in that utility. At the BIOS level, I also cannot see the individual devices when the logical drive is already built, and do not seem to get either clear error messages nor the ability to manually try to force the rebuild. Is there a trick to forcing a rebuild in this circumstance? I assume the new drive I am putting in is seen as bad or inappropriate for the mirror, but getting some kind of explicit confirmation about this is what I want. What are the requirements around using identical drives in a mirror? I have to reorder more of the original drive I was using here, but do not want to try similar drives given possible different disk geometry. -- Will |
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Help Cloning Configuration DL380 G2
"Will" wrote in message ... On a DL380 G2, I have a system drive as RAID 1 on SCSI ID=0 and ID=1. With power off, I removed the drive in ID=1, and put it into an identical DL380 G2 in the ID=1 position, hoping to clone the configuration. The system boots fine on the new computer, but when I stick an identical drive in the ID=0 position it refuses to rebuild to that ID=0 drive. How can I check what is wrong there? Update all firmware, including all the drives. Run a system erase on the 2nd DG380G2 and the new disk Try again. I would start the system and recover the RAID config / make sure it boots, and hot-plug the new drive 0 in the 2nd server. The HP Configuration Utility is getting to be pretty useless and feels like it has gone backwards in the feature set in the last five years. It's a G2 - it is about 5 years old technology already! I don't seem to have very much control at all over the array in that utility. At the BIOS level, I also cannot see the individual devices when the logical drive is already built, and do not seem to get either clear error messages nor the ability to manually try to force the rebuild. What you're doing works, but it's not exactly using the technology as it was designed... FW is VERY important. |
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Help Cloning Configuration DL380 G2
"Jez T" wrote in message
... "Will" wrote in message ... On a DL380 G2, I have a system drive as RAID 1 on SCSI ID=0 and ID=1. With power off, I removed the drive in ID=1, and put it into an identical DL380 G2 in the ID=1 position, hoping to clone the configuration. The system boots fine on the new computer, but when I stick an identical drive in the ID=0 position it refuses to rebuild to that ID=0 drive. How can I check what is wrong there? Update all firmware, including all the drives. Run a system erase on the 2nd DG380G2 and the new disk Try again. I would start the system and recover the RAID config / make sure it boots, and hot-plug the new drive 0 in the 2nd server. Just applying the new firmware got me to the point that the replacement drive is now being seen as an unassigned drive. How do I assign that drive to the array that needs the replacement drive? That was a very easy thing to do in the older GUI based Array Config Utility. In this web based thing they use now I don't see how to accomplish that. What's the trick to getting the new drive properly assigned, and after I do the assignment will it automatically replace the old drive? The HP Configuration Utility is getting to be pretty useless and feels like it has gone backwards in the feature set in the last five years. It's a G2 - it is about 5 years old technology already! The GUI ACU was much more feature rich in 1999. -- Will |
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