RAID – Exchange the entire disk between Dell PowerEdge servers

I have a dell poweredge R610, which has 2 x 140 GB hard disk mirroring (hardware), and runs high CPU-intensive applications in Windows 2008 R2. We recently purchased a new Dell PowerEdge R610, which has a higher specification CPU. Is it possible to put the drive from the first server into the new server and start it without re-imaging or reinstallation? So basically the entire disk is swapped between the two servers?

Update: It is the same as the hardware device of the CPU, so the raid controller is also the same.

Cheers,

Anger

I have a dell poweredge R610, which has 2 x 140 GB hard disk mirroring (hardware ), running high CPU-intensive applications in Windows 2008 R2. We recently purchased a new dell poweredge R610, which has a higher specification CPU. Is it possible to put the drive from the first server into the new server and Start it without re-imaging or re-installation? So basically the entire disk is swapped between the two servers?

Update: It is the same as the hardware device of the CPU, so the raid controller is also the same.

Cheers,

Anger

I recently did this between two identical HP G5 servers with no problems. Not a silly hardware-based RAID controller saves its logical volume configuration on disk, so If you have the same RAID controller (under the same firmware version), there should be no problem.

However, before doing this, you should make sure you have the latest version of the logical volume Backup/ghost image.