[SunHELP] Moving the Server

[Dave K]

On 11/28/05, David Strom <dstrom at ciesin.columbia.edu> wrote:
> > From: Dave K <davek08054 at gmail.com>

> > You need to be prepared to deal with anything that cares about hostid
> > and MAC (Ethernet) addresses.

>    The hostid, and iirc, the "system" MAC (Ethernet) address, are on the
>     personality card of the V240, you can swap the cards, and then these
>     issues would not be a problem in the 2nd V240.

In the words of the great one: D'oh!

Having never had reason to move one of those, I forgot it existed.

I've experimented with recovering from the loss of a mirroed disk (a
bigger PITA than I'd like), but never with this scenario.