[THIN] Re: Dell Blades and mirroring
- From: "Andrew Wood" <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:55:48 +0100
Yes, because HP is lovely and sensible. Dell effectively gives a whole load
of "are you sure you want to do this", "really", "this'll wipe data out
mind", "have you checked with an adult" and then sulks like a teenager who
has been told to tidy its room when it has to re-mirror the drives.
Have you looked at CitrixTools.net cloning utility -
http://www.citrixtools.net/Default.aspx?id=16
<http://www.citrixtools.net/Default.aspx?id=16&tabid=63> &tabid=63 - this
automates a lot of what you do for cloning in a couple of clicks.
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Greg Reese
Sent: 10 August 2009 16:06
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Dell Blades and mirroring
With the HP, i turned off both servers. From server 1 i took the drive from
slot two, and in server 2, put it in slot 2 and left slot 1 empty. Turned
both servers on, they booted right up. Then whatever drive got put in the
empty slot once running, got written to as the mirror.
after that, it was just a matter or running newsid, joining the domain,
joining the farm etc.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I'm pretty sure it was possible but not as simple as in HP or IBM. Along the
lines of it's not as forgiving if you move the slots so take out a drive
from slot 2 and put it in slot 2 in the second server. And, possibly that
you had to have initialised a mirror up on the 2nd server first and/or that
the rebuild had to be kicked off from the raid console and it took a while
Doable, but not pretty I seem to recall.
hth
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Greg Reese
Sent: 10 August 2009 15:37
To: Thin
Subject: [THIN] Dell Blades and mirroring
Anyone out there running Dell M600 blades? or dealt with them in the past.
I am trying to deploy some cloned servers by breaking mirrors and running
new sid (and all the other associated hoops).
one of the other people that work with me is saying it is impossible to take
one of the mirrored drives out of a dell blade, put it in another blade, and
have it work.
I haven't tried myself yet but I have done this in the past with IBM and HP
and never had a lick of trouble out of the machines. Seems strange that it
wouldn't be possible with dell.
anyone done this with Dell?
Greg
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