Upgrading disks on a legacy Win2008 R2 server

[ramon82 0]

Hi all,

We have a legacy Fujitsu Server with just 4x HDD bays (4x disks) - we have 2 mirrored arrays and one of the array is small and we need to upgrade the disks with larger disks but retaining all the data inside.

As far as I know the below procedure should work well:

TAKE A FULL BACKUP TO AN EXTERNAL USB DEVICE USING WINDOWS BACKUP

TURN OFF SERVER AND TAKE OUT THE TWO DRIVES WHICH ARE GOING TO BE REPLACED

WHILE SERVER IS OFF, REPLACE WITH LARGE HARD DRIVES (2x IDENTICAL DRIVES)

TURN ON SERVER

GET INTO RAID CONTROLLER AND MAKE SURE THAT NEW DRIVES FORM A NEW MIRRORED ARRAY - OTHER ARRAY HOSTING OS IS NOT TO BE TOUCHED

SAVE CONFIG AND REBOOT SERVER

ONCE SERVER BOOTS UP TO RECOVER ALL THE DATA FROM THE BACKUP TO THE NEW DRIVES RETAINING ALL NTFS PERMISSIONS ETC FROM THE OLD DRIVES

Its been a long time since I did the above but as far as I know it should work well - can you guys confirm please?

Thanks a bunch
R

[marka 584]

Hi Ramon,

at first welcome on board. second: Why are you screaming so loud? Most of your Text is written uppercase 

 

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[ramon82 0]

oops my apologies :) not shouting at all

[Squire 261]

Hi,

 

depending on the function of your raid controller I would go a differnet way

 

1. Backup (always a good idea)
2. remove one drive from first array and replace it with the bigger one
3. let the array rebuild
4. remove the second drive from the first array and replace it with the bigger one
5. let the array rebuild
6. use the raid controller function to expand the existing array to use the full disc
7. start with the second array ... same procedure

I did that a few times on HP servers with SmartArray controllers. Perhaps your Fujitsu Server controller have the same functionality