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Looking to expand windows drives of SQL database
Hi All,
I have a 20 TB database made up of multiple 2 TB mountpoints. Recently end user want us to expand drive, but all the disks are MBR and cannot to extended beyond 2 TB, from storage side it cannot be done. From server side we attempted robocopy but they unable to attach database post copy and that went for 1 complete day. This is critical application and not agreeing to provide more downtime.
Is there anyway that it can be done from any of the tools? Quick response is really appreciated. We are running low on time. Please let me know if there is anyway to copy data to bigger size luns from storage side. Small downtime is fine
I have Recoverpoint available and Appsync, is there any way these 2 can be used to copy data to bigger size luns which are formatted as GPT ?
I have tried to create copy from storage it will not change drive format. But if there is a way to copy data to already formatted GPT drive that would help
AshJo
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August 4th, 2021 14:00
IS PPME an option ? copying data to bigger size lun is possible, but my basic question is can i format disk as GPT and use as target or disk property will be copied based on what is already there ?
DELL-Josh Cr
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August 5th, 2021 09:00
Hi,
Yes you can create a GPT volume and it should coy fine.
AshJo
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August 5th, 2021 15:00
I tried creating a GPT lun and started copying data from MBR using PPME, end of migration when the switch happened, target became MBR. If you have done it could you please give me the process ?
DELL-Josh Cr
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August 5th, 2021 16:00
Try with appsync to restore a copy of the database. Page 145 https://dell.to/3itfxYs
AshJo
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August 9th, 2021 08:00
I have Xtremio connected and as it is snapshot based copy, restore will hold same property as host right ? After restore target will be still MBR. Is there any appsync experts who can confirm that the restore is possible to already formatted GPT disk ?
I tried restore using appsync, it is not giving any option to even select lun. I see only path option under restore mode.
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August 9th, 2021 09:00
The best option is to call phone support at this point.