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What is the Intel® LUN Copier?
It’s a tool enabling local copies of any LUN (Virtual Drive) when it is not being actively used by a compute module. This capability, which does not require any special software to be run on a compute module, simplifies tasks such as
- creating a local copy of a data LUN and
- creating a new OS LUN (which can be assigned to a new compute module as the boot LUN), by copying an existing LUN which already has an OS installed in it
What are the benefits of Intel® LUN Copier?
- Copying an existing virtual drive can be used as a local backup solution (on the Intel® Modular Server only)
- Makes OS provisioning and deployment easier and faster
- Can be used for non-production environment testing
- Off-line RAID morphing
- Local back up
- Operating System provisioning/deployment
- Non-Production Environment testing
- Off-line RAID morphing
What is off-line RAID morphing?
- The Intel® LUN Copier allows copying a virtual drive from one RAID level to another when the compute module assigned to this virtual drive is switched off. This is called RAID morphing.
What do I need to use the Intel® LUN Copier?
- An Intel® Modular Server with firmware version 4.0 or above http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/mfs5520vi/
- A valid license key which activates the Intel® LUN Copier feature on the Modular Server
- Compute Modules which run the validated operating systems for this feature (compute modules must be turned off whilst their assigned LUN is being copied):
What do I need to do to activate my Intel® LUN Copier feature?
- Contact your reseller to purchase a paper pack ID. Product code MFSLUNCOPY MM#903085.
- Obtain the mid plane serial number of the modular server on which the feature should be activated.
- Please see http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-029940.htm for instructions where to find the mid plane serial number and next steps for license key activation.
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