Copy data

[Javier Lozano]

I have a SAN MA6000 with HSG60 Array Controller with 2 virtual disk, one of them "D1" is a raid5 of four disks of 146 GB and the other "D2" is a mirror of two disks of 72 GB. The two virtual disks are connected to a windows 2000 server. I want copy data of "D1" to "D2" without using windows 2000 server operating system.

Is it possible using commands of the SAN?.

Because if i copy data using windows, it is too slow.

Thank you!

[Uwe Zessin · Accepted solution]

Well, a RAID-5 set of 4 disks with 146 disks each provides about 438 GigaBytes of space. A mirrorset of two 72 GigaBytes disks provides room for, guess what, 72 GigaBytes.

The HSG60 is a block-serving device and does not know what a file system is. The HSG series controllers provide a mirrorset-based cloning service, but the destination disks need to be of the same size.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to clone a RAID-5 set (D1 in your case).

[Javier Lozano]

Thank you.