First post, not even sure where to start :confused:
I have 5 drives in hardware RAID 6 right now. I ordered a 6th drive today, of same capacity, with intention to do a P2V conversion. Here are the steps I am planning to take for the process, can you guys please point stuff out if I am messing up big time and on path to destroy my data?
1. I intend to backup all my data from RAID to the new drive following instructions here: http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how...smaller-drive/ I know the raw data will fit, as my total used is less than that of a single drive by about 25%. (146G SAS, formats, and binary math brings it down to about 135G or so; only 100G of data on RAID).
2. I intend to install from baremetal ISO on to the RAID, while not touching my extra drive.
3. I intend to make a new KVM instance, and dd if=/dev/_separate_drive_ bs=1024 > /somewhere/on/physical/disk.img, which I can then mount in the newly created KVM instance.
Is it really this simple? Is there something I should look out for? Is there something else I am missing? Hopefully I can be well prepared before I start next week :)
I have 5 drives in hardware RAID 6 right now. I ordered a 6th drive today, of same capacity, with intention to do a P2V conversion. Here are the steps I am planning to take for the process, can you guys please point stuff out if I am messing up big time and on path to destroy my data?
1. I intend to backup all my data from RAID to the new drive following instructions here: http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how...smaller-drive/ I know the raw data will fit, as my total used is less than that of a single drive by about 25%. (146G SAS, formats, and binary math brings it down to about 135G or so; only 100G of data on RAID).
2. I intend to install from baremetal ISO on to the RAID, while not touching my extra drive.
3. I intend to make a new KVM instance, and dd if=/dev/_separate_drive_ bs=1024 > /somewhere/on/physical/disk.img, which I can then mount in the newly created KVM instance.
Is it really this simple? Is there something I should look out for? Is there something else I am missing? Hopefully I can be well prepared before I start next week :)