Can a drive be copied into a iSCSI target and replace that drive?

[johnnyTechy]

Tell me if this just plain wrong thinking.

 

I have a space problem on Server X with drive D:.

 

On another server I create an iSCSI target, very large target. I make this drive whatever on the server that has the storage problem.

 

On the disk space problem server I call drive D: Q, Z, whatever. I copy all the stuff from the full disk to the iSCSI target.

 

I change the drive letter of the iSCSI target to D:.

 

(Drive D is an array but it is not the OS disk. I would turn off the appropriate services that use this disk.)

 

Would this work?

 

Is iSCSI too slow for this?

[SYNACK]

It depends on what services are pointing to the drive, some like SQL reffernce the drives by GUID or mount point rather than letter and will not move gracefully. I found that one of the best options to deal with this can be to mount the new larger drive as a folder inside the smaller drive and move most of the stuff that way if you have really problimatic services installed.