I am not 100% on this so hoping this can be easily answered.
I have two almost identical Poweredge 1900 servers. We will say... server A and server B
Server A I am currently using and would like to transfer my drives over to server B. The OS is server 2008 R2 Standard. I am using the server for file storage and a web forum.. So nothing crazy.
Basically I would like to sell server A and use server due to the fact the casing is in a little better shape and it has a better raid card along some extra Nic's.
I don't want to go through all the hassle of swapping cases and cards.. Figure it would be easier to just swap drives..
I understand processors have serials and it comes down to licensing issues on the OS.
However, should I be able to just pull drives from Server A and place into server B as long as the motherboard and processors are identical?
Motherboards identical
Processors identical
memory identical
raid cards Server A is Dell SAS5/ir(GU186) and server B is a PERC5/i(GT281)
I hope to be able to put the drives into the new server and the OS boot up without much issue..
Or is this going to turn into the OS crashing when it tries to load?
Thanks for the advice!