On Apr 13, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Thursday, April 14, 2011 05:57 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 4/13/2011 4:11 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: >>> Les Mikesell wrote on 04/13/2011 02:22 PM: >>>> I can't think of anything that has been a problem with 64-bit >>>> win >>>> 2003/2008 as production servers and I sort of like the way you can >>>> decide after-the-fact that you want to convert a disk to software >>>> raid. >>> >>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID >> >> Where the operative part of the bazillion step process is copy the >> data >> to the new device while running from a rescue CD, then making it >> bootable. This isn't really specific to CentOS - but on Windows >> (server >> versions) it is a mouse click to make a file system dynamic and then >> another one or two to add a mirror - with the system still running. >> Or >> you could use a few command line commands instead. >> > > Oh please don't tell the lads how great the gui and its backend are. > You > will see the hordes leave for Windows 200X Server! Yea rite, gui/management tools are one thing but foot print, stability and cost to support are another. - aurf