Cloning boot disk of HP Itanium [11i v3] using DRD and booting another vPar

[willsfrazer]

HI,

I am trying to clone boot disk of HP Itanium [11i v3] using DRD and hence booting another vPar using that cloned disk. Now problem is if the machine from which I cloned he disk is already running and I bring up new cloned server up, will it have IP conflict ?

Secondly, when I clone SAN disk to SAN disk cloned server comes up but when I cloned boot disk of a machine which had Hard disk as it's boot disk to another vPar's hard disk and tried to load that cloned vPar, it threw input output errors while vparload and finally halted. Can anyone point me if there is a difference in SAN to SAN disk cloning and Hard disk to Hard disk cloning.

Next question is can I clone boot disk which is a hard disk to another vPar's disk which is a SAN disk and vice versa, will it come up, or will there be any issues or changes to be done to bring second[cloned] server up.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Wills.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You an of course use dd and you will get an exact copy of the disk.

You will need to bring it up in single user mode and change networking /etc/rc.config.d/netconf at the very least so there is no ip address hostname conflict.

The supported tool however is Ignite.

You can do a make_tape_recovery a make_net_recovery even a golden image and get a much smoother copy of your system, vpar to vpar, even across npars.

SEP

[Torsten.]

In addition to what I already wrote in

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1260766

you should consider to use ignites golden images for cloning.

http://docs.hp.com/en/6770/golden.images.pdf