There is definitely risk involved, and a careful plan is needed to mitigate the risk.
Here are a couple questions/concerns:
What is the end goal?
- Are you trying to consolidate 2 V800s into 1?
- Are you trying rebalance spindles across 2 V800s, and keep both online?
Do you have HP Support?
- Will they generate new license keys for both V800s to reflect the new drive counts?
- Will they perform the hardware config changes/moves?
Do you have enough free capacity to allow 96 spindles to be removed from the environment?