Still having trouble with this. The blade has 2 NIC ports, and we disable one of them in the BIOS of the blade in question. The Win PE 2.0 environment still reports that there is no network card, tho. Claims that the "network card is not in a permissable state". It shows no NIC card at all. I don't deal with the Win PE environment we have, but my co-worker says that the drivers from HP for the NIC in the BL 460 G6 do not support booting into a Win PE environment, so he is trying the generic drivers from Broadcom (the manufacturers of the NIC).
My boss thinks that perhaps he might have to configure the Virtual Connect interface (this is the blade administration interface) to play with the settings for the virtual switch that the blade uses. I confess that I am lost at this point (both with this suggestion about re-configuring Virtual Connect, and where to go from here). The end result we want to get to: convert a VM to a physical, but without using the recommended method of using sysprep. This VM is one of those mission-critical ones, but unfortunately my DBAs have not been able to re-create a working version of it, so I *have* to use this VM. And for licensing reasons, I have to move it to a physical machine. But since it's so fragile, I can't take a chance on using sysprep (if the transfer to physical doesn't work, I need turn the VM back on and keep it in production, until I can get it to work. And I can't take a chance that using sysprep won't screw something up. Anybody? I'm almost at the point of taking a full backup using EMC Networker, doing a BMR to the blade, and then doing a repair installation to add the blade specific drivers, so it'll boot and work. I am less than confident about that procedure, too ... I'd much prefer to take an image of the VM using LANDesk, and using Win PE to put it on the blade. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Mike Leone <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/22/2011 3:04 PM, Steven Peck wrote: > > I am not rightly the right guy on details, but we found that you really had > to get the 'first' discovered network for SCCM deployment on WinPE boot > media. We disable the physical NICs down to one, then it worked for us. > Once the server is finished, we re-enabled the NICs. > > Usign the cmdline to test connectivity always worked with all NICs enabled, > only disabling the extra NICs let the image deployment stuff work. > > > Hmm ... OK, I will see if he can disable one of the 2 NIC ports on the blade > itself. Thanks > > > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Mike Leone <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We have an HP BL460 G6 blade center. It uses a Broadcom 10G NIC (the HP ID >> is NC532i). Anyway, we're trying to boot one of the blades into our Win PE >> 2.0 environment, so we can push a server image down onto it. And we're >> having problems. Apparently, the NIC doesn't seem to support that. We can >> PXE boot properly; we can connect to the PE server. But we can't seem to >> find a driver that will load in the PE environment. We've tried the HP >> drivers and they don't seem to load. >> >> Anybody using an HP BL460 G6 with a PE 2.0 environment? And if so, what >> drivers did you use in the PE environment? The "regular" Windows drivers >> don't seem to work in the PE environment. >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
