RAID Recovery

[Noam Rathaus]

Hi Ez,

Thanks, I will try it

Worst case if it doesn't work I will have them RescueCD boot and I will 
install remotely via VPN tunnel or SSH tunnel - which I don't like and not 
sure if it is possible.

On Saturday 28 February 2009 11:10:24 ezaton wrote:
> Hi.
>
> While I agree with Shachar about the advantages of software RAID, this
> is not true. All modern RAID controllers maintain a replica of their
> configuration on all disks. This allows easy RAID controller migration
> between *similar* RAID controllers.
>
>
> If you ship the disks to another server using the same RAID controller
> (for HP servers, interoperability is available between almost all RAID
> controllers, but for Dell I don't know), and you insert them
> _at_the_original_slot_order_, there should be no problem. You will be
> able to Import/Activate your array and be happy with it.
>
>
> Ez
>
> Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > Noam Rathaus wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a server abroad that has a RAID setup - that server has died -
> >> I bought another computer but now I want to take disks that I have
> >> "prepared" here in Israel on the same computer setup with RAID and
> >> ship them.
> >>
> >> Is it possible to somehow instruct the RAID setup on the new computer
> >> (in the US) to use those disks?
> >>
> >> The computer is a DELL PowerEdge R200 with SAS6iR:
> >> http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_r200?c=us
> >>&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
> >>
> >>
> >> Details on such a procedure are scarce.
> >
> > One of the greatest problems with hardware raid is that you need the
> > actual controller in order to access the disks. Sorry.
> >
> > Shachar
> >
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