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Ubuntu 18.04 server HDD switchover
daxterfellowes
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I know this is going to sound like a rudimentary question and it is, however:
I have two physical servers - a Dell R410 and a Dell R420. I wish to swap over to the R420. I am running Ubuntu 18.04 with no special kernel or other OS changes running in software RAID 0 (2x disks).
They are of similar but still dissimilar hardware, but will it be possible to pull the drives out of the 410 and just slap them into the 420 with it seeing not real effected changes?
Comments
This should work - the OS itself will just autoload whatever modules it needs based on the hardware it finds and you should be all set.
Disk wise you need to make sure that you order them correctly (or that you have both of them set to boot correctly via grub) and once the boot loader boots I assume everything else is manageable.
HD - 144p.