Ghost Domain Controller - issues?

[fatboy69]

Howdy,

I want to ghost a domain controller to the same hardware, just new drives.

I have a Compaq -ML370 G2 with a current Raid 5 set of 6 18.2GB drives. I want to ghost the server then replace the 6 18.2GBs with 4x 36.4GB in a raid set. Controller stays the same, drivers stay the same only the physical drives change.

Can anyone see a problem with this? and better yet has anyone tried this at home? I'm quietly confident it will work, but not overly confident.

FB.

 

[Jump1ng]

There is issues with ghosting raided drives.

Have a look on these links

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...sf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...sf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

 

[fatboy69]

Thanks for that. I wasnt aware of any of those fundamental symantec issues. I have successfully ghosted 4x HP/compaq g2 g3's onto various raid sets (hardware) all with 100%success. All 2000 servers, member and standalone.

But as you would have read I have never done a domain controller.

Thanks again for the info.

FB

 

[tangostar]

why don't you jsut hot swap one drive at a time and let RAID rebuild the server for you.

 

[fatboy69]

I had thought of that, but I am not confident as I have to pull out two drives for the first one. (if that makes sense).

Actually I have no Idea what would happen. I have moved drives to different controllers (god bless you compaq) but not replaced drives on the fly and rebuild raid sets.

I think I will take my chances with the Ghost. Cheers.

FB

 

[tangostar]

You can only pull one at a time. If you pull more then one you are screwed. Pull one, rebuild, pull the other, rebuild.

 

[fatboy69]

Even though I am pulling out 5x 18Gb's and putting back 4x 36.4GB drives you are saying the raid controller will rebuild the set onto 4 disks? 1 by 1.

I'll give it a go, no guts no glory!

FB

 

[smsg]

I think you CANNOT do the pull and rebuild strategy on this one.

The hard drive size is different, RAID 5 requires all drives to be same size.


There should be no difference between a DC and a member server when ghosting.

You said you have succesfully ghosted RAID drives. I'd like to know how you did it because I've been wanting to do that for years. I have Hp servers by the way.

SMSG

 

[tangostar]

Yes I didn't take note you were going to have fewer disks. The pull and rebuild is a no go.

 

[fatboy69]

lucky I wasnt confident. no guts no glory, what a load of crap! Ghosting worked perfectly.

SMSG.

Using Ghost 8.0.xxx, created a bootable Ghost CD witht he Q57 Broadcom drivers. This was for a hardware swap between three servers, 1 being a staging server.

I had 2x HP DL380G3's. Both with onboard raid controllers and 1 with PCI 641's. Built the new server on DL380-1 with two 72GB in raid1 on the 641 controller. once I was happy with the build, dropped and ghosted to network share. I then took the drives out of another server that was being decomissioned 5x18.2GB and put them into DL380-2 built theRaid5 set on the 5i onboard. then I used the boot CD and ghosted down he image I created.

Worked a treat. But I also was using the same server hardware, just different controllers.

No word of a lie.

FB