[THIN] Re: Dell Blades and mirroring
- From: Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:06:21 -0500
The person working on this now says the Dell blades are essentially
"remembering" their old drives and won't accept the changed drives when they
are moved.
He has thrown his hands in the air and says it is impossible. i am going to
take a look at it before calling it dead. I think i can make it work.
I have not seen the cloning utility but will check it out. If I had
altiris, I would use that. All i want to do is build my master image once
and be done. If this gets me there, all the better.
Thanks.
Greg
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Andrew Wood
<andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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.
>
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>
> Have you looked at CitrixTools.net cloning utility -
> http://www.citrixtools.net/Default.aspx?id=16&tabid=63 – this automates a
> lot of what you do for cloning in a couple of clicks.
>
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> *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
>
>
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> 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
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> Doable, but not pretty I seem to recall.
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> hth
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> *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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