RE: IXS server and Network Storage Spaces

["Wilt, Charles" <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No he isn't really.

The fact is Microsoft doesn't support moving a primary hard drive
between dissimilar hardware environments.

Are there some tips, tricks and tools you can used to get away with
doing it?  Sure.

But you can hardly expect IBM to support an action Microsoft doesn't on
a Microsoft OS.

Does Dell support it on there PC servers?  Nope, for the same reason IBM
doesn't support it on the IxA/IxS or standalone xSeries.

Waldon, do you really routinely move boot drives between dissimilar
hardware without any prep?  How dissimilar?  If the
motherboards/chipsets are different I'd say you're very lucky.

Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 7:13 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: IXS server and Network Storage Spaces
> 
> Walden,
> 
> You are right about this.  I haven't pushed the limits TOO far but I 
> pulled a drive from a Wintel (white box) (PIII 800 running 
> Windows XP)  
> and put it in a completely new, P4 Acer PC and it worked.  
> Granted, you 
> have to do some "prep" like updating your video and HDD drivers to 
> "generic" versions BEFORE you pull the drive (JUST before) 
> and it will 
> come up pretty much intact.  It updates a zillion other drivers and 
> forces you to re-activate Windows but it does work.
> 
> That is why I was so baffled when I migrated from a model 270 
> running an 
> IXS to a brand spankin new i5 with an IXS (different model, 
> of course) 
> and I couldn't start the server.  I would have thought that 
> IBM, knowing 
> exactly what the IXS HAL requirements are on the old 270 and exactly 
> what the IXS HAL requirements are in the new IXS on the i5 could have 
> built a "migration" tool that prepares the *NWS object to be 
> restored to 
> the new hardware.  You can do it with "vanilla" hardware, why not IBM 
> specified hardware?
> 
> They are probably just not that interested in making it that easy.  
> Better to start from scratch and install Linux instead.... :-)
> 
> Pete Helgren
> 
>