RAID Recovery

[ezaton]

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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