User's Manual

Moving Physical and Virtual Disks from One System to

Moving Physical and Virtual Disks

from One System to Another

This section describes how to move physical and virtual disks from one

system to another.

Required Conditions

This section applies to PERC 5/E and PERC 5/i, and SAS 5/iR Controllers

After some planning and preparation, it is possible to migrate physical and

virtual disks from one controller, enclosure or server to another. You can

perform physical and virtual disk migration on PERC 5/E and PERC 5/i, and

SAS 5/iR controllers as long as the following conditions are met.

General Conditions for SCSI and SAS Controllers

• Virtual disks can only be migrated to a controller that is using the same

technology. For example, virtual disks on a SCSI controller must be

migrated to a SCSI controller and virtual disks on a SAS controller must be

migrated to a SAS controller. For more information, see RAID Controller

Technology: SCSI, SATA, ATA, and SAS.

SAS Controller Conditions

• On SAS controllers, you can migrate a virtual disk by moving the physical

disks from one controller to another and then importing the foreign

configuration on the receiving controller. For more information, see

Foreign Configuration Operations.

• When moving an enclosure on a SAS controller, you can move the

enclosure to any connector number and then import the foreign

configuration on the receiving controller. For more information, see

Foreign Configuration Operations.