In a long overdue attempt to start working on server imaging via SCCM I did some legwork today.
Discovered that due to some configuration challenges getting the Flex 10 Ethernet adapters to PXE boot with the way our VLANs are configured I decided to wire up one of the unused 1gb 4-port NICs (nc364m). Then discovered that by default on HP servers that these Intel based NICs don't have their management utility exposed and PXE disabled and you have to use something called bootutil to set it up. Ugh. So before I dive in on this do those of you imaging HP blades in particular have any good high level and/or deep dive info on this? I'd like to try the HP Insight Control for SCCM but to install the version that can deploy Server 2012 my SCCM server needs to be on 2012 (ours is SCCM 2012 SP1 running on 2008). Anyway - is the HP integration the best solution or should I work through the PXE issues and then manually build up a boot image for these? Until I can successfully capture an image I'm spinning my wheels. Desktops seem a lot easier :-) Casey Sent from my iPhone
