I have a failing EX485 and was hoping to pull all drives from the EX485 and drop into the EX495. Will this work or is the EX495 so different the OS will have trouble booting?

Thank you

If your looking to move your server setup from the EX485 to the EX495 you would need to perform a server recovery on the EX495 which is very different then what your use to on the EX485. There are hardware differenced between the two servers. You could try it but I am not sure how far you will get so I believe the way to go about it is with a Server Recovery to preserve your data.

You may want to preserve your setup on the EX485 and pop in a new system drive into the EX495 and perform a Factory Reset and then configure it to your likening then add a storage pool drive to the EX495 and just copy the data from the EX485 to the EX495, remove a drive from the pool on the EX485 add it to the EX495 and continue to move more data until everything is moved. You can even use BDBB to backup your client data and then use BDBB to restore that client data on the EX495.

The reason why I recommend setting up the EX495 first and then go through the migration process is because if something went wrong with the recovery you would still have a functional server to work with where as just popping in the drives into the EX495 and having something go wrong you would have nothing to work with.

Drives are cheap and even if you left two drives in your EX485 just to hold the OS and client data and possibly some additional important files it would make the process less stressful should something go wrong. If your looking to sell the EX485 then you will need a drive to go with it if you were going to provide a clean OS preinstalled for the new owner to work with. Selling a unit with no drives is often somewhat questionable especially if you sell it to an inexperienced person.

I recommend you review the following link which will explain the EX49x recovery process and provide a method to making the recovery or reset process much easier then the way HP indicates it should be done.

http://www.mediasmartserver.net/wiki/in ... _and_EX495

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