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>         system. If I configure all of the drives from our original system
>         on the new box before hand and at the correct time shutdown everything,

If you mean "configure on the OLD system the correct I/O paths for the
drives when they're attached to the NEW system", then ... yes, things should
work just fine.  I've done that several times.

>         how will those drives that were in the original system volume set appear?
>         Will they simply show as LONER with a volume set name of MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET
>         or will the new system 'acquire' them for itself?

If you mean "configure on the NEW system (while the OLD system is still
up and running)..." then that implies you've got a separate LDEV 1 (and
separatE $SYS vol set) on the new system, so simply attaching disks from
$SYS on OLD system won't work.

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