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#1 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 06:21 AM

All

i have 2 sites using san mirroring between the two.

thinking about how to provide DR could i create a alt install boot disk
on a box at site A, get the SAN to "move" that disk to a (development)
box at site B and boot my dev box off this newly moved disk. My OS, and
therefore mksysbs, dont change that often so creating the alt boot say
once a month would prove ok for me.

in theory i dont see why not, both machines are the same(p630's), i
know my EMC SAN can do the required disk moves. Im aware of how to do a
SAN boot and do that already, just thinking specifically about the move
of a SAN disk.

anyone tried anything similar and have any comments, i.e. "dont even
think about it" "consider this"

thanks for any comments

Mark

#2 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 06:22 AM

Mark,

I don't see any issue with that. In fact I have used flashcopy to do exactly
that in tests from one shark to another.

-Spencer

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> All
>
> i have 2 sites using san mirroring between the two.
>
> thinking about how to provide DR could i create a alt install boot disk
> on a box at site A, get the SAN to "move" that disk to a (development)
> box at site B and boot my dev box off this newly moved disk. My OS, and
> therefore mksysbs, dont change that often so creating the alt boot say
> once a month would prove ok for me.
>
> in theory i dont see why not, both machines are the same(p630's), i
> know my EMC SAN can do the required disk moves. Im aware of how to do a
> SAN boot and do that already, just thinking specifically about the move
> of a SAN disk.
>
> anyone tried anything similar and have any comments, i.e. "dont even
> think about it" "consider this"
>
> thanks for any comments
>
> Mark
>

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