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Impossible to migrate array?


MooseMan123

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I have a DSM intall in ESXi, and I have an LSI 9207-8i passed through with 12 drives attached. For whatever reason, they connect in DSM on ports 13-24. Because of this, I need to modify DSM to allow more than 12 disks once its installed. And because of THAT, I must install DSM on a virtual drive first. (if I could fix that, this problem would probably be moot!)

 

I got everything going in a test VM, and I wanted to simulate migrating the array. So I deleted the 20GB virtual disk I had DSM installed on, and made a new one.

 

As soon as it boots it acts like a fresh install, since it can't see the other drives. So I install DSM and then modify it again to allow 24 drives. But then when I reboot, it must see the drives and it says that I am migrating from a different ds3617xs and need to either re-install DSM, or "migrate". Well, "migrate" involves pointing it at the DSM install file, which then resets the drive count back to 12...

 

So I end up in a loop and can never seem to access the data again.

 

Am I doing something wrong here?

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@MooseMan123

Try the following.

Create fresh VM install and name the new server the exact same name as the original.

once you are up and running do not create a new volume.

shutdown VM and add your drives to the new VM.

restart VM.  and log back in to DSM , open up "Storage Manager",  it should pick up the original array "Volume" and ask you to repair .

 

I just migrated an array from a VM DS3617xs running 6.2, to a VM DS3615xs running 6.2.1. And all worked great.

My drives however are RDM's which makes them easy to add to VM's (When I made them RDM's, they were part an array Volume already and I did not loose any data)

 

Good luck

 

This is how I made them RDM's Video

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