Moving from software mirror to HP Smart Array 642 Raid controller

There is a HP proliant DL 370 server which has Server 2003 installed. There are two SCSI disks configured as a Software mirror.
Now the system has to be moved to a new HP Smart Array 642 Raid controller.

Has anyone done this before?

I'm planing to first remove one of the disks. Then break the software mirror and then make an Image with Acronis true Image.

I then plan to move the disks to the Smart Array 642 controller and initialize them. Then use a bootable Acronis CD to boot and recover the image from another location through the local network.

Does this sound as it's going to work? Does Acronis True Image support HP Smart Array 642 Raid controller.

Thanx in advance!

 

Hello metha,

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Please notice that as the operation you described is essentially transferring to a different hardware, we recommend you to use Acronis Universal Restore. Acronis Universal Restore technology provides an efficient solution for hardware-independent system restoration by replacing the crucial Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) and mass storage device drivers.

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Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov

 

Hello Murat,
thank you for the suggestions.
I actually managed to get things done without Universal Restore.
First I inserted the RAID controller and powered the server with the controller inside. I then installed drivers for the controller so that Windows would already have the drivers after the imaging. After installing the drivers I created an Image (I didn't brake the software mirror before making the image but that was no problem).
Shut down the server, connected the drives to the controller, created a Volume and then installed the Image back.
Everything went fine. I was just confused of the fact that Acronis saw the CD drive as C: and it said that it is restoring the actual Windows drive C: as D:.
But after the restart everything was fine.

Thanx again.