All,
About year and half back, I brought a "white box" server
from TigerDirect.com - Visioneer. A day passed the
hardware warranty, one of the cpu's died. After some
arguing with the saleperson and vision's tech support,
they sent me a new cpu, and heatsink. During the
install, the motherboard died. After I changed out all
that, I had the server back up but then one of the stick
of RAM wouldn't work with the new motherboard. Needless
to say, I am buying a new server for my office. For my
client's, I have only using DELL. PowerEdge 700's to be
exact (had no problems and Dell's server support been
great so far).
What I would like to know from you all, is what approach
would you take to replace one server with a completely
new one.
My thought is that I would rebuilt it with the same name,
setup as the old server, shutdown the old server, replace
with new server and do a restore of the new server from
backup (I back up to an external usb pot harddrive).
Old server config: Dual P3 1Ghz processors, two 80 gb
hdd's in a software raid 1 mirror (Fastrack promise
controller embedded), 1ghz RAM PC-133.
New Server: Dell PowerEdge 700, P4 2.8 - 3.2 Processor,
two scsi 73.4 HDD's, Raid 1 mirror - Hardware controller -
PERC ???, 1 ghz RAM DDR400
Since the two server's hardware congfiguration is so
different, I am not comfortable with the restore from
backup. But If I did a restore, would I most like just
have to install disk one do a repair of the install to
add scsi driver, etc.....
How would you guys go about this?
Thanks in advance for your
comment/suggestions/observations
Larry