September 16, 2005 at 11:57 am
We have a simple 2-node SQL Server 2000 cluster (SP3a)
running on Windows 2000. We are planning to replace
our RAID subsystem with a much bigger and different
RAID subsysterm (not a SAN).
All of SQL Server devices, backups, logs are on this
subsystem. We will copy off all files on this system,
keep the local system drives (non-raid) and not change
them, then copy back all files on the RAID subsystem. The
logical drives on this subsystem are all shared cluster
resources.
My question is, if the new raid system is different
and has more disk space and is different H/W, but we
keep the same drive letters, copy back all files OK
and make these drives shared resources, will we
be OK? Nothing else special or tricky to worry about?
Seems that SQL Server, when turned back on, won't know the
difference at all since we aren't changing anything except
the physical H/W.
Or do I have to reinstall SQL Server for clustering...?
Knowing this will save alot of headache and time during
the upgrade. Thanks.
September 16, 2005 at 12:24 pm
If you can get Windows to recognize the shared drives as the same drive letter, etc. You should be fine.
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