Solved: Mirror MCS 7825H-3.0 hard drive

benharned · ‎02-01-2008

My call manager server recently crashed with a failed hard drive. After 2 days of diagnosis and 3 seperate part shipments we got everything back running on a new drive.

We are using a MCS 7825H-3.0-IPC2 server. How do I mirror the primary hard drive so if it crashes I can put in the spare? (I would create the image and remove the spare to store safely elsewhere)

Rob Huffman · ‎02-01-2008

Hi Ben,

Yikes, that sounds like a painful experience! This good Tech Note may help, it was kindly provided by NetPro Brandon along with some really good hints and tips;

Configuring and Using Redundant Disks with Cisco MCS

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/voiceapp/ps378/products_tech_note09186a00800942b4.shtml#upgrade

From this good thread;

http://forum.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf?page=netprof&forum=Unified%20Communications%20and%20Video&topic=General&CommCmd=MB%3Fcmd%3Dpass_through%26location%3Doutline%40%5E1%40%40.1ddad186/0#selected_message

Hope this helps!

Rob

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Rob Huffman · ‎02-01-2008

Hi Ben,

Yikes, that sounds like a painful experience! This good Tech Note may help, it was kindly provided by NetPro Brandon along with some really good hints and tips;

Configuring and Using Redundant Disks with Cisco MCS

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/voiceapp/ps378/products_tech_note09186a00800942b4.shtml#upgrade

From this good thread;

http://forum.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf?page=netprof&forum=Unified%20Communications%20and%20Video&topic=General&CommCmd=MB%3Fcmd%3Dpass_through%26location%3Doutline%40%5E1%40%40.1ddad186/0#selected_message

Hope this helps!

Rob

benharned · ‎02-01-2008

Thanks for the info. This would definately do it, but I've already configured the RAID with one drive. Redoing it now would wipe everything (not that I don't now have the experience on reloading!).

I posed this question to the TAC tech I've been working with throughout this crisis and he suggested using an ghosting software.

Rob Huffman · ‎02-01-2008

Hi Ben'

You are always welcome :) We have been looking at this a little bit as well. One of the highly recommended products is from Acronis. It seems alot of people here are using it;

http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/

Hope this helps!

Rob