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Migrate SAN Disk - Windows 2008 Failover Cluster
Migrate SAN Disk - Windows 2008 Failover Cluster
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- Hi y2kbug
Ideally the SAN software should do this for you.
If it doesn't, you need to:
Take the SQL resources offline,
present the new LUN to the cluster.
Copy the files from the old drive to the new
Swap the drive letters so the new LUN looks like the old LUN
Take the old LUN resource offline
Bring the SQL resource back online.
You'll need your Windows Admins to manage the renaming of the cluster disks, as it can be tricky if you don't have something like SANCopy to do it for you.
HTH
Ewan
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- Hi y2kbug
Ideally the SAN software should do this for you.
If it doesn't, you need to:
Take the SQL resources offline,
present the new LUN to the cluster.
Copy the files from the old drive to the new
Swap the drive letters so the new LUN looks like the old LUN
Take the old LUN resource offline
Bring the SQL resource back online.
You'll need your Windows Admins to manage the renaming of the cluster disks, as it can be tricky if you don't have something like SANCopy to do it for you.
HTH
Ewan
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If this post answers your question, click the 'Mark As Answered' link below. It helps others who experience the same issue in future to find the solution.- Marked As Answer byy2kBug_sp7 Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:51 AM
Ewan,
Thank you for the quick reply. Those steps look similar to what I was thinking.. I was wondering, however, how to migrate the Witness disk? Is this the proper procedure? http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverClustering/thread/21002411-a8c9-47c3-ba69-c4f029802473/
- Hi
I don't have any experience of moving the witness disk, but the source of this answer does seem to be impeccable, so I would go along with it!
Ewan
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