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тАО01-21-2011 09:11 PM
тАО01-21-2011 09:11 PM
Replace Raid 1 disks with smaller SSD's
It doesn't appear that I can break the mirror and re-mirror to a smaller drive....does anyone have a good way to do this? Could I ghost the drives to the SSD's?
thanks,
Chris
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тАО01-21-2011 09:13 PM
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Re: Replace Raid 1 disks with smaller SSD's
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тАО01-23-2011 10:25 PM
тАО01-23-2011 10:25 PM
Re: Replace Raid 1 disks with smaller SSD's
I've never tried this but how about:
1/ Create the mirror with the SSD drives (array2).
2/ Then boot on some kind of live-CD and copy from array1 to array2?
As you're not attaching them to a new controller, you shouldn't run into problems that the OS doesn't have the drivers. You may run into problems that the boot table isn't pointing to the right place.
I'm not sure if this is possible either, but can you make the boot drive smaller? So that the SSD drives fits? Just bear in mind that resizing arrays can take quite some time.
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тАО01-24-2011 02:46 PM
тАО01-24-2011 02:46 PM
Re: Replace Raid 1 disks with smaller SSD's
Then installing the SSD in its place and ghosting the image back to it.
Thoughts?
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тАО01-24-2011 10:08 PM
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Re: Replace Raid 1 disks with smaller SSD's
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тАО01-24-2011 10:50 PM
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Re: Replace Raid 1 disks with smaller SSD's
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тАО01-24-2011 11:24 PM
тАО01-24-2011 11:24 PM
Re: Replace Raid 1 disks with smaller SSD's
Is your X1600 fully populated? Is that why you have to replace the drives like this?
If you have more disks - why don't you put the OS ghost onto the other disks instead?
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тАО01-25-2011 01:05 AM
тАО01-25-2011 01:05 AM
Re: Replace Raid 1 disks with smaller SSD's
The OS is Windows Storage Server 2008.
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тАО01-25-2011 01:11 AM
тАО01-25-2011 01:11 AM
Re: Replace Raid 1 disks with smaller SSD's
I hope you have a backup before you start doing this.. If you do, maybe it would be easier to use the backup?
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тАО01-25-2011 02:42 AM
тАО01-25-2011 02:42 AM
Re: Replace Raid 1 disks with smaller SSD's
As of v8.50 of the ACU
"# Applicable only with the appropriate SAAP License Key installed:
* The Move Array operation now allows the user to move an array to physical drives that are smaller than the original physical drives, provided that all the data in the existing logical drives will fit into the new array"
I have the SAAP License, so the current drives on in bay 1 and 2, I can put the new ssd's in 3 and 4 and use this command it appears. Offline of course since its my boot volume.