I have to upgrade the drives and the controller on a few Dell blade server from SATA to RAID. I would like to upgrade the drives, not necessarily at the same time but as part of the job. The current configuration is Win 2008 R2 with 2 SATA drives mirrored in Windows, so dynamic disks. I have replacement 6/iR RAID controllers to go in place of the existing non-RAID. The RAID controller is supported natively by Win 2k8R2 so no drivers are required.
I'm a bit puzzled about how to go about this exercise, primarily because of the dynamic drives and also because of the fact that on a blade you only have one type controller in at any one point. If anyone has done anything like this and is willing to share the experience, I'd greatly appreciate it.