Migrating Hardware

[BDMcGrew]

Good morning, again!

The inevitable time has come for me to migrate hardware. Those that might remember my original build would recall that I used the not-so-recommended RocketRAID 750 controllers because that's what I had at the time and it's starting to bite me, I need to fix it now, while it's on my terms and not later when I endure a crash

So my question is, I need to migrate my hardware to something different. Will I need to reinstall FreeNAS or should I expect the new hardware to just boot my existing flash drive and find the new hardware? Will my ZDEV's move?

My current hardware:

45 Drive POD 4.0 with 8x WD Red 4TB, 4X WD Red 1TB and 2x 120GB SSD's.
SuperMicro X8SCM-F Motherboard with a Xeon and 8GB.
2x RocketRAID 750 controllers.
1x Intel i340-T4
Booting from a SanDisk 16GB USB Stick

My new hardware:
SuperMicro 846E Chasis supporting 24 HDD's with 2x 900W PSU's
SuperMicro X8DTF Motherboard with 2x Xeon's and 48GB
1x LSI 9211-8i controller (do I need 2)
1x Intel i340-T4


It'd be very nice if I could just move the drives and USB stick, have it boot and work. This is a production server. However, I do have the ability to move the data off the server and reinstall from scratch if I really have to. Of course I'd prefer not to do that but it's not the end of the world if I do.

Thanks!

 

[Mirfster]

Yep, should be fine just moving the drives (Boot and Data) over to the new system. Of course you will have to reconfigure the NICs though. I think that LSI 9211-8i would be in IT Mode by default, but you may want to make sure that it is not in IR Mode first. As far as if you need two; I have not checked info on the backplane so I am not sure...

As always, get a recent backup of your config (just in case)...

 

[BDMcGrew]

... and, for anyone looking in the future, this does in fact work as advertised. My new hardware was similar enough to the old that I does guess drivers were an issue but all came up just fine. Now, on to other hardware problems :)