topic Windows 2008 Failover Cluster Migration in Data Protection https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Windows-2008-Failover-Cluster-Migration/m-p/36391#M6635 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a Windows 2008 Failover cluster running SQL. This is required to to be migrated to a different NetApp.</P><P>In the past I have done this operation with Windows 2003 Clusters and had to be careful with disk signatures and use a Microsoft tool to re-add resources etc.</P><P></P><P>Has anyone done this with a Windows 2008 failover cluster? If so do you have the method? Are there any papers on this?</P><P></P><P>I know I can simply add new disk using Snap Drive then migrate using Snap Manager for SQL but I wondered if there were a method using Snap Mirror that might be more time effective with less downtime.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:26:06 GMT Willybobs27 2025-06-05T06:26:06Z Windows 2008 Failover Cluster Migration https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Windows-2008-Failover-Cluster-Migration/m-p/36391#M6635 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a Windows 2008 Failover cluster running SQL. This is required to to be migrated to a different NetApp.</P><P>In the past I have done this operation with Windows 2003 Clusters and had to be careful with disk signatures and use a Microsoft tool to re-add resources etc.</P><P></P><P>Has anyone done this with a Windows 2008 failover cluster? If so do you have the method? Are there any papers on this?</P><P></P><P>I know I can simply add new disk using Snap Drive then migrate using Snap Manager for SQL but I wondered if there were a method using Snap Mirror that might be more time effective with less downtime.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:26:06 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Windows-2008-Failover-Cluster-Migration/m-p/36391#M6635 Willybobs27 2025-06-05T06:26:06Z Re: Windows 2008 Failover Cluster Migration https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Windows-2008-Failover-Cluster-Migration/m-p/36396#M6636 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I just performed this migration this week for our SQL database.&nbsp; I used QSM (Because I was migrating from 32-bit to 64-bit).</P><P>- Create new igroups on new filer and verify settings before the outage.</P><P>- Snapmirror volumes.&nbsp; Make sure to allow this to complete ahead of time to reduce the length of the outage</P><P>- Shutdown the Cluster</P><P>- Unmap the LUNs</P><P>- Update Snapmirror relationship</P><P>- Quiesce and Break the relationship</P><P>- Map LUNs to igroups on new filer (I used the same LUN IDs to be safe)</P><P>- Rescanned for disks on the hosts</P><P>- Brought the disks online for the host that last held the reservations.&nbsp; The disks will show "Reserved"</P><P>- Brought the disks online for the other node's in the cluster.</P><P>- Startup the cluster and verify the disks show up as they should.</P><P></P><P>I then failed over all of the cluster resources to the other node to verify they came up properly.&nbsp; I had to do this from the command line (Run as administrator) and use "disk group /status" to find the resources then use "disk group &lt;GROUP&gt; /move:&lt;NODE&gt;</P><P>This took about half an hour from shutdown to verify as I had most of the commands on the filer scripted out ahead of time.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:17:05 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Windows-2008-Failover-Cluster-Migration/m-p/36396#M6636 wduvall02 2012-07-21T01:17:05Z