Switch disk in servers without losing content

Hi,
Need to change server hardware on a couple of servers, and wanted to just change the disks, and hopefully it would start up on the new server.
But that is not the case :(
I took out 2 disk (Raid1) from a UCS B200M3, and put it in a UCS B200M2, but everything was gone at the disks when I startet the server.
There is no Scrub Policy applied on any of the servers.
The way I did it, was that I turned off 2 servers, (B200M3 - Windows and B200M2 - ESXi) and disassociated Service Profile. Then I swapped the disks and associated Services Profiles again (Now: B200M3 - ESXi and B200M2 - Windows)
None of the servers was functional when I started them again.
If any understand what I have tried to do, please help, if there is a way to do this.
Regards
Stig

Let's go through the details to see if I can help:
"I took out 2 disk (Raid1) from a UCS B200M3, and put it in a UCS B200M2, but everything was gone at the disks when I startet the server."
*Did you install the disks in the same order? meaning disk on the left was still the one on the left when you put it in the new server?
*Did you check the new server's service profile and made sure you were not using another RAID level?
With SAN boot you would accomplish this a lot easier just by changing targets in the Service profiles (assuming zoning and LUN masking is properly set)
-Kenny

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