"BSOD with STOP 7B Inaccesible Boot Device" This is because they use different drivers and the drivers loaded in Windows for the 6/iR are not sufficient to talk to the H700. What you might try is boot to Windows on the 6/iR, with the H700 inserted (but not connected to anything), let Windows detect the device, load drivers for it, then try moving the drives over to the PERC.
I have an upcoming situation and any suggestions/advice would be appreciated... I have an R710 with 6 x 3.5in drives chassis and populated 6 SAS drives (2 x 136GB and 4 x 300GB)The server was badly specified prior to purchasing and was therefore purchased with a SAS 6/ir controller The server is an Exchange box.  OS is on C: which is a RAID-1 using the 2 x 136GB SAS drivesData in on D: which is a RAID-1 using 2 of the 300GB drivesThe other 2 drives are sat doing nothing as the SAS 6/ir can only support 2 virtual disks and only RAID-0 or RAID-1 The problem is the data volume is getting close to capacity and I really need to utilise the spare drives.Having considered several options, it appears to me that the only viable solution is to get a PERC H700 and import the foreign VDs but I have read that importing a SAS 6/ir VD containing a Windows OS into a PERC H700 is not possible/supported.I believe importing the data volume would be ok and then I could use RAID level migration and online capacity expansion to add the spare drives and convert from RAID-1 to RAID-5, all with minimal downtime. So if importing an OS disk is a non-starter, is a server rebuild the only option or I am missing something?  For example, can I run a SAS 6/ir alongside a H700 leaving the OS on the SAS 6/ir and letting the H700 handle the data?  If so, how does that work in terms of installing the additional card in the risers and cabling to the enclosures?!? As I said, any help would be much appreciated. thanks in advance,Andy
Upgrade a R710 with SAS 6/ir to a PERC