One of our clients doesn't like to buy server hardware and instead uses desktop components to run his server on. We recommend against it but it's his final decision to make. This is the same PC that I asked for RAID drivers for in my IT CHALLENGE, the drivers worked I guess but the machine wouldn't boot. So I figured something else must be different between the two machines so i logged into the OG 2003 R2 machine and noticed that it's an Intel C2D 6400 2.13Ghz and we're trying to transfer it to an AMD Athlon X2 245 (2.9Ghz) processor. Can this be done?

I don't think I have anything to worry about extension wise, since the AMD is a couple years newer it should have support for all the SSE stuff that the Intel does and more. Is it really as easy as slipstreaming the AMD driver into the HAL?

Here's how I'm doing it. I'm using a Symantec system recovery image that was made of the Intel server. Booting to a symantec restore disc on the AMD machine and then I choose the backup file and restore it to the AMD machine and at which point it allows me to slipstream drivers into the HAL of the server image as it's being copied to the AMD machine.

Anyone done anything like this? Or know of another way to do this. basically we're doing this so we don't have to rebuild the guys domain

 

http://www.symantec.com/business/sup...t&id=TECH55048

The only other way I know would be to do a P2P migration with Platespin but that is pricey.

 

Daniel,

If they can make Diet Dr. Pepper taste as good as regular Dr. Pepper, you can find a way to do this.

 

yeah I found this

http://webobjects.cdw.com/webobjects...r-Hardware.pdf

Apparently there's just a button I check. I should be good to go!

At least we got the guy to use a 3rd party RAID Card.

 

Unfortunately they can't! DDP is the worst soda I've ever had. ever. I remember being 4yrs old in washington DC and having DDP for the first time. Disgusting, I never finished it. I had it about 20yrs later and it was just as bad as the first time.

So what you're saying to me is this is impossible!

 

Did you ever get this to work?

I'm wondering if Sysprep would help in a secnario like this. Though, I don't know how that would affect Active Directory. I've never sysprepped a server once AD was set up.

 

Acronis with Universal Restore

You can probably get a fully functional trial.

/thread

 

Acronis works great for migration.

 

Yes and no. apparently I was already using the tools for it to work correctly. Must not've worked the first time because of the RAID controller. Put in a new Adaptec RAID controller and slipstreamed the drivers into the HAL and it booted. But wouldn't work. AD wouldn't work for some reason. It gave me an error message that when I researched gave me a few possibilities. Either the AD was corrupted or the AD files had changed drive letters. My boss told me not to bother with it. I'm going to go to the client's office tomorrow morning and make a new image of the server and try it again.

I'm leaning on the AD files changing drive letter due to the target system maybe having one less CD drive or something.

 

Being cheap will cost him in the long run, if the situation calls for a server then buy a fecking server.

 

The thing that I've seen most in these cases is hard drive failures. Consumer drives just aren't meant to run 24/7 and last.

 

I'm 100% for buying the appropriate equipment for the job (in this case, server grade hardware), but in my experience, all hard drives are unreliable and fail.

If I did the math and compared the number of server hard drive failures we've had vs workstation hard drive failures we've had....the ratio might be close to equal. This is taking into account failures over the number of servers we have vs failures over the number of workstations we have.

And yes - all of our servers are real servers and are in climate controlled environments.

Hell, I bought a Dell PowerEdge 830 back in 2005. I set it up in my parents garage and it ran through the hot Central Valley summers, my dad's construction projects (aka sawdust) up until I took it home in 2009. It's in the closet in my office running without any issues! I haven't replaced a single piece of hardware. I consider myself very lucky.

I'm considering replacing it with this: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/em...2100/index.jsp. Less noise, lower power consumption. I don't need the horsepower.

/ramble