Disk move from 5i to 6i

[Sean McGough]

Hi

I have a Windows 2003 server install with applications etc, I wish to move to a new DL380 G4. I have done this before from a G2 to G3 by just pulling out a disk and moving it to the new hardware. No problem as they are both 5i RAID controllers. unfortunatly this doesn't work for the G4 as it is a 6i RAID controller. I get a blue screen (0x0000007B) Inaccesable boot device on Windows startup. This is normally due to an incorrect driver but the driver I am using is the 5.62.0.32 that is for both the 5i and 6i RAID controllers.

I have called HP and they said this operation isn't supported.

I don't want to reinstall all the apps.

Any ideas?

[Neil MacMurchy]

I have had a similar experience (see my post further down) but you have gone further than I if you can get redundancy. When I swapped my drives from a DL360 to the new 380G4 I also recieved the inaccessible boot drive, but I then procedded to do an install of (in my case) 2000 ent. on top of. During the boot up of teh CD I specified teh new drivers and selected the 6i controler. at the install it then recognised the installation partition. instaed of choosing a repair I choose to hit install. it then detected the previous install and asked about repair. it basically did an upgrade to my WIndows install with teh new drivers. I later ran the PSP after a reboot and had to fix a few odds and ends but both of my servers are up....HTH

[Sean McGough]

Okay I seem to have found a way for this to work. The process is as follows :-

1. Load the latest RAID driver (5.62.0.32 at writing) on the source server (DL380 G3 with 5i and 2003)
2. Import the attatched registry file
3. Shutdown the server and move a disk or disks to a DL380 G4.
4. Boot & You're all done!

The registry file primes the servers registry with the plug and play ID of the 6i controller.

Hope this helps you as much as it has me!

Sean.

[Mark Sherwin_1]

Now that's clever Shaun.

[Billy Steeghs]

This solution works great even if you use ghost images with Symantec Disaster Recovery. We tried on both 2000 and 2003 servers.

Brilliant. Do you take donations?
You saved us a lot of work.