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April 6th, 2009 05:00
Remove Jukebox media from DX? Fastest way?
Scenario:
Old Win 2000 Server (Physical) with DX 6.2 and HP Jukebox. The DX Volume is a SAN volume attached to the server. All files are on the SAN and the Jukebox just provides a copy of all files. (There is a MOVE rule with a NO PURGE option).
We want to:
1) Migrate to a virtual machine (ESX 3.5)
2) Remove the Jukebox (A Centera is being installed)
3) Move to Windows 2003
We were told to do a compaction by the company that provides support for the main application that uses this system. That seemed to be working as the media (optical platters) would indicate that they are no longer associated with the extended volume, and the DiskXtender file attributes would indicate that the files were no longer "protected". However, the move rule was not stopped so all old media (and the files contained) were just then copied to new media. So we have lost about 3 days of time. Now our queue is very large. We have stopped the compaction process and are waiting for the move to finish as we had no way of indicating what data we already had and what data was new.
Since I am new to DiskXtender I have a couple of thoughts:
1) NTFS doesn't know about any DX file attributes. We have all the data on our SAN. Could we not just install a fresh DX on a new Windows 2003 Server (VM), use a Raw Disk Mapping to the SAN LUN and make that the extended drive? I know it's probably not that simple, but if we have to compact all of our optical platters it will take about 2 weeks that was not planned for in the scope of our project.
2) We can still add the Centera (which is the main focus of our project) to the physical server. Stop the move rule. Start the compaction process. WAIT. WAIT some more.... then P2V the existing server, worry about a 2003 server upgrade at a later point in time....
Any help would be appriciated...
Old Win 2000 Server (Physical) with DX 6.2 and HP Jukebox. The DX Volume is a SAN volume attached to the server. All files are on the SAN and the Jukebox just provides a copy of all files. (There is a MOVE rule with a NO PURGE option).
We want to:
1) Migrate to a virtual machine (ESX 3.5)
2) Remove the Jukebox (A Centera is being installed)
3) Move to Windows 2003
We were told to do a compaction by the company that provides support for the main application that uses this system. That seemed to be working as the media (optical platters) would indicate that they are no longer associated with the extended volume, and the DiskXtender file attributes would indicate that the files were no longer "protected". However, the move rule was not stopped so all old media (and the files contained) were just then copied to new media. So we have lost about 3 days of time. Now our queue is very large. We have stopped the compaction process and are waiting for the move to finish as we had no way of indicating what data we already had and what data was new.
Since I am new to DiskXtender I have a couple of thoughts:
1) NTFS doesn't know about any DX file attributes. We have all the data on our SAN. Could we not just install a fresh DX on a new Windows 2003 Server (VM), use a Raw Disk Mapping to the SAN LUN and make that the extended drive? I know it's probably not that simple, but if we have to compact all of our optical platters it will take about 2 weeks that was not planned for in the scope of our project.
2) We can still add the Centera (which is the main focus of our project) to the physical server. Stop the move rule. Start the compaction process. WAIT. WAIT some more.... then P2V the existing server, worry about a 2003 server upgrade at a later point in time....
Any help would be appriciated...
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