Hello All,

I built a DSS V6 box using raid protected 500GB "data" drives, but I used a single 80GB hard disk for my boot/system partition. (I know, bad idea, but this was supposed to be a quick and dirty 2 week trial / test.)

I moved some of my less important servers over to it to give it a full test. And of course my 80GB system drive has failed. I didn't know it was a problem until I could no longer access the web page for management. After rebooting, I realized that the system/boot up partition was gone, and the DSS can no longer start.

The 500 GB drives were partitioned with approx 300GB of ISCSI LUN space, some SMB/CIFS storage space, and snapshot space.

Here's the question -- is there a fairly easy way to "rebuild" the DSS box with a new system partition? and then regain access to the ISCSI LUNs?

I've already booted off a system recovery CD -- I can mount the LVM volume group, and see all of the DSS partitions on the 500GB drives, but I don't know much about how ISCSI LUNs are created and shared.

Or should I just forget about it, and restore from my 2 week old backups?

Thanks for your help,

- Patrick