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Feb 28 2009   3:33PM GMT

Migrating a old 2003 Terminal Server to new Equipment



Posted by: Roger Crawford
Windows Server 2003, Terminal Server, Storage Craft Shadow Protect

I had a customer who has had a 2003 Terminal Server for about 5 years and he was wanting to go to new equipment but not the pain to reload all the applications. I usually prefer reloading but in this case the server has been really stable and no problems. So I said OK lets give it a shot and I used Shadow Protect for IT and backed up the old server and then booted the new HP Server and configured the RAID and then started the restore and I noticed when it finished the C Drive it did not load the RAID drivers and thought to myself ok it had something that matches so we are good. NOT it did not load the drivers. Dang now what I explored a few options and ended up reloading the restore again of the C and this time it loaded the RAID drivers. Whew!!!! HP does have a utility that you can change a USB Drive into a Floppy so I could have loaded the drivers this way through the booting to a server OS CD and hitting F6 but the curious guy I am I wanted to see if the other would work like it was suppose too and had before. But it was all good server came up and the users the next morning was very happy with the new found speed they had. We went from a Dual XEON 3.06 CPU’s and 2.5 Gig of RAM to a server with dual QC CPU’s and 10 Gig of RAM running 2003 Enterprise TS Server. It handles the 31 users with room to grow.

 

Til later just Roger

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Jan 17 2009   6:51AM GMT

That was lucky



Posted by: Roger Crawford
HyperV, Windows Server 2003, Storage Craft Shadow Protect

I got a email Monday night from one of my best customers their main LOB App Server was dead and unresponsive. Drives would go through start up and then no more activity. This was sent at midnight and I happened to check my email at 4:15 this morning so I showered and headed down that way. Got on-site and yip turn the machine on nothing so I still had my wife’s old server in my car so I brought that in and put the drives in and booted the server and it blue screened, ok this is looking promising it is needing RAID controller drivers but they couldn’t keep the server so what I did was attach a USB Drive to the server and then booted with my copy of Shadow Protect Server and once it got through the process I could see partitions. Good so I did a backup of the drives and then copied them over to the customers HyperV Server and then turned the backup files into iso files and then restored the server into the HyperV and away they went. They was lucky I checked there backups and the only good one they had was the year end backup so we went through that about keeping them checked and life was good again.

Till later just Roger

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