Installing X-Serve with all software and then trasnplanting HDDs?

[Switchbak]

Is it possible to install everything onto an Xserve and then once completely built can I swap the drives into another Xserve with the same hardware? Will the RAID etc still work?

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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[foidulus]

Is it possible to install everything onto an Xserve and then once completely built can I swap the drives into another Xserve with the same hardware? Will the RAID etc still work?

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
N

This will not work if you have your xserve hard disks set up as a RAID as the disks all have to be formatted and read/written to together. However, if you leave them as individual drives then you should have no problem, where I work we frequently swap out XServe drives(but again, we don't configure them to be in a RAID)

 

[Switchbak]

As stated in my post the raid drives would be installed together

And if they were installed together and i swapped both drives then they would match which should mean that as the RAID info is stored on the drives then it shouldnt be a problem?
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[DustinT]

And if they were installed together and i swapped both drives then they would match which should mean that as the RAID info is stored on the drives then it shouldnt be a problem?
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if the raid controller is the same and running the same raid controller firmware version, yes, it should work. but, I wouldn't guarantee it. Test first!

 

[Consultant]

If it doesn't work you can clone the drive to another computer which has RAID already set up.

 

[Waragainstsleep]

It should work if you're using software RAID. If you have the Apple RAID card it may not.