Hello everybody,
I have made a plan in my head to do an "all in once" Upgrade / Migration.
Current System is an Unraid 6.12.13 with 4 Disks (2 Disk Parity) Array --> Goal is to move this to an 7.0.0-rc.1 Server and the data from the array to an 8 Disk ZFS Raidz2 Pool.
Why? Because I wanna use Full ZFS for longterm Data Storage and also the new Mover ability to move from pool to pool.
Disks are all 12 TB same Model
Plan:
Add 4 New Drives into existing Server Create and ZFS RaidZ2 Pool with 4 Disks
Copy all Data from Array to Pool
Inplace Upgrade from 6.12 to 7.0.0-rc.1
In Case this works well --> Delete the Array
Add the old 4 Free disks from the Array to the ZFS Pool to get more Storage
I think this should be pretty doable with a moderate risk of data loss
I have two main questions:
Is there any Big Showstopper that i have overlooked?
Can i easily expand the ZFS Pool over the GUI or do i need CLI Magic to make this happen?
Thanks in advance for your input and recomendations.
Greetings