RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Ghost Imaging HP Proliant Servers..

[Frank Abagnale]

Brian,

 

Thanks for your response, I haven't looked into ADS. Your website indicates that ADS requires Windows 2003 Enterprise, because of licensing and costs, deploying 10 x Windows 2003 Enterprise versions would not be cost effective for us, especially since we don't require the functionality Windows 2003 Enterprise provides. 2003 Standard is sufficient for our requirements. Does ADS Support this as well? or do does your blog mean the actually ADS server needs to be Windows 2003 Enterprise, but it can deploy 2003 standard builds?

 

Thanks

 

Frank

 

Brian Desmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

You have multiple problems here:

 

The SmartArray card has no RAID config. The default varies though my experience is it RAID5s the first four drives and shuts down the remaining two in a DL380G4.

 

Ghost likely does not have a driver enabling it to see the scsi disk. You will need to modify the config.sys and add CPQs dos driver

 

 

If you search the Compaq support & drivers section, you want he smartstart scripting toolkit. It will show you how to script the hardware setup before you load your image. I would recommend you instead of Ghost here use PXE boot and Microsoft ADS. There’s even a long post at the top of my blog – briandesmond.com detailing all the steps to get it working with Proliant hardware – my test environment was DL380G4s. For server imaging, ADS is FAR more powerful than Ghost.

 

--Brian

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 5:13 AM
To: Active
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Ghost Imaging HP Proliant Servers..

 

Hi all,

 

Having read a few recent mails regarding server imaging, it's interesting to hear how 'easy' it has been for those who have responded. I have been having difficulties trying to create an image, I will explain further...

 

I have 10xHP Proliant 380's G4, to save time I thought I would configure one of the Proliant Servers (RAID 1 for OS), install a basic installation of Windows 2003 Standard, sysprep it then create a ghost image of this file so I could install the image on the remaining 9 Proliant Servers.

 

So I created a standard image, sysprep'd it then rebooted, I ran ghost and this is where the issue began, it did not recognise the disks (in RAID 1) for me to be able to ghost the drive, is there any docs or drivers or steps I have missed or need to look at?

 

I know my information is vague, but I tried this over a month ago so my memory is pretty poor.

 

Anyone with some advice where I should be looking?

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