I have two DL560 servers with 6402 controllers (firmware 2.34) with a MSA30 attached to each server with a mixture of 15k and 10drives.
One server is a 4 cpu 2.8ghz SQL server
One server is a 2Ghz DATA server
The problem I have is that I would like to upgrade all the drives in SQL DL560 MSA30 drive array with 146GB 15k drives
I would like to implement this with some form of role back plane.
My plane is to use one of the servers to restore the data
I would like to temporally remove all the drives form my DATA server. And install the new 14 drive into the data server.
Backup the SQL server and restore onto the DATA servers new drives. Verify that the restore has been successful, and move the 14 new drives from the data server to the SQL server.
Re-install the DATA server drives.
Could you tell me the best way to carry out the above procedure. Will I have to backup and restore the 6402 configuration. At each change of hardware configuration. Or will I just have to reboot the server at each stage in the process.
Or has anyone one have a simple solution to my upgrade problem
P.S. This thread has been moved from Disk to ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL). -HP Forum Moderator