December 1, 20214 yr I am planning to replace my unRAID hardware - except for the drives (incl. the usb boot key). Everything else will be replaced. I assume such a stunt has already been done by many people before. Is there a community tutorial or limetech documentation guideline on how to execute such a system migration? I am thankful for any of your pointers in that direction.
December 1, 20214 yr In general, if you have no passed through hardware, and are using IT mode disk controllers on old and new systems, it will work OOTB with no work necessary. If you are passing hardware resources directly through to a VM or container, or using a RAID controller on old or new, it can be more complicated.
December 20, 20214 yr Author Thanks, it old / new are as follows: old: bare metal, IT mode controller directly connected to SATA drives new: bare metal, Supermicro A2SDi-8C-HLN4F onboard controllers connected to hotswap backplane, to which the drives are connected Will the change from IT mode controller to the onboard controllers of the new board create extra work, and if so, what to do?
December 21, 20214 yr Community Expert One thing I would do is to make a printout of the Main tab with all of the drive assignments with the drive's serial number listed. (A screen capture would serve the same purpose...) IF you have it, you will never need it. 😉 Be sure to turn off the 'Enable auto start' under the "Disk Settings". After you boot the new server, check to see that all drives are assigned where they should be before you start the array! Ask questions if something does not look right.
December 21, 20214 yr Author Thanks! (I never did use auto start) Will come back if something seems fishy.
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