[ProgSoc] migrating a win2k3 server from software RAID to hardware RAID

Chris Laughton chrislaughton at gmail.com
Fri May 2 19:12:34 EST 2008


> As the title suggests, I need to do just that. It's currently running
>  RAID 1 (mirroring) via windows on two disks. I want to move it to RAID
>  1+0 on four disks using the inbuilt hardware RAID. I have thought of a
>  number of ways to do this, and they all seem fraught with danger. I
>  have at my disposal Symantec Ghost, Windows Backup, and a number of
>  external drives. The system is currently partitioned into a system
>  drive and a data drive, both residing on the mirrored volume.

If you want a low risk way of doing things, I suggest using vmware's
free converter, that way you have a backup of the system as it stands,
and it has the benefit of doing a hot backup (therefore no downtime).

Then you could bring up the image with Xen or Vmware server

Chris


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