Changing boot from SAN to Local Server drives win 2003 server

[Jeff Tranchina]

I am trying to find out how to change the windows 2003 boot from a SAN to the locally attached drives on BL25 or 30? I am new to "Boot from SAN" but I would much rather to have the servers boot from the local drives and keep only data on the SAN.

[Steven Clementi · Accepted solution]

Jeff:

What kind of storage are you connecting to?

If your using an EVA, there is no way except to just drop 2 drives into the blade and rebuild the os. (or grab an image of the OS from the SAN, and deploy the image (using RDP or some other imaging software)).

If your using a MSA, depending on how it is configured... you might be able to just pull the drives and put them into the blade and it would just "work". Not sure about this though as I have not had a change to test it. Theoretically, it should work.


Steven

[Patrick Terlisten]

Hello Jeff,

if you are using a MSA1000 or 1500, you can pull out the disks of the BL25p and put them in the MSA. The MSA will detect the array on the disks and you can present the LUNs on that array to your bladeserver again. The BL30p use 2,5" notebook harddisks. In this case your only option is to backup the server and recover that server again. You can also try to make a disk-image with the RDP.

Regards,
Patrick

[Michael Racki_1]

EVA = rebuild. Not sure why you would want to get off of a boot from SAN config. Lots of people are doing it in large shops and getting great results. We do boot from SAN and replicate the entire OS, data, everything to a target standby EVA. Boot from SAN with EVA CA is like having a copy machine for DR.