User's Manual

Moving Physical and Virtual Disks from One System to Another 267
• Saving the New Controller Configuration
Moving the Disks
1 Turn off the system that the physical disks are being moved from.
2 If the receiving controller has a preexisting virtual disk configuration on
attached physical disks, use the following procedure for clearing the
configuration:
– Turn off the receiving server.
– Remove all the physical disks from the controller.
– Start up the receiving server and clear the configuration from the
controller BIOS. After making the changes, power down the server
when it indicates to reboot the system.
3 If the receiving controller does not have a preexisting virtual disk
configuration, then turn off its server.
4 Place the physical disks into the new enclosure.
5 Start up the system connected to the receiving controller. When the
system connected to the new enclosure comes up, use the BIOS access
<Ctrl+M> to update the controller configuration with the information
saved on the physical disks. Exiting the BIOS access requires one more
reboot of the system.
6 The migration is complete. The virtual disk is now manageable through
Storage Management.
7 Continue with Saving the New Controller Configuration.
Saving the New Controller Configuration
Use the following procedure to enter the controller BIOS configuration
screens to save the new configuration.
1
Reboot the PowerEdge server.
2 Enter the PowerEdge RAID Controller BIOS by pressing <Ctrl+M>
when prompted during the power on self test (POST) of the controller
during the bootup sequence.
3 Select the Configure menu option and press <Enter>.
4 Select View/Add Configuration and press <Enter>.