On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 07:53:21AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> The procedure you use with windows is to install the disk driver it
> will need under vmware before the copy. Everything else will
> auto-detect.
good to know, thanks.
> The piece that I haven't been able to match is Windows (server versions)
> ability to convert a standard NTFS disk to dynamic, then add a mirror
> on the fly. If you didn't install on RAID1 to begin with and remove
> one of the partitions, how do you get a working system to the point
> where you can add a mirror? You'd probably have a fair chance of
> making things work with an rsync copy while running, followed by
> an rsync in single user mode with databases, etc. shut down, but
> what I really want is a live mirror that would always be up to date
> any time the physical server died.
Ah, i see. I have read (but not actually tried) that you can convert
a filesystem on a raw device to a raid1 but I can't remember the details.
There were issues with needing extra space at the end of the physical
partition. I imagine if you partitioned your disk with an extra cylinder
after each partition it would work.
danno
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