Dear all, Anyone who has created a Windows Server 2016 OS template on CloudStack can advise on what's the best way to auto-initialize the data-disk upon VM provisioning?
Any advice is highly appreciated. Thank you. On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Cloud List <cloud-l...@sg.or.id> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am using CloudStack 4.8.1 and KVM hypervisor. When creating my Windows > Server 2016 OS template, I tried to automate the initialization and > formatting of the data-disk so that it will automatically be put online, > initialized with MBR partition, formatted and assigned the E: drive letter, > without the user having to manually initialize the disk using Computer > Management > Disk Management. > > I tried to do so by preparing 2 scripts: > > 1. A PowerShell script to automatically initialize and format all disks > with RAW partition, which I am taking from here: > > https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/ > 2013/05/29/use-powershell-to-initialize-raw-disks-and-to- > partition-and-format-volumes/ > > I saved it on C:\script\InitializePartitionFormatNewDisks.ps1. > > 2. A command script to automatically run the above PowerShell script when > the Administrator user logs in. I follow the instructions on below URL: > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20575257/how-to-run- > powershell-script-when-computer-starts > > to create a command script to set PowerShell execution policy to > "unrestricted" and then run the script. > > === > PowerShell -Command "Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted" >> > "%TEMP%\StartupLog.txt" 2>&1 PowerShell C:\script\ > InitializePartitionFormatNewDisks.ps1 >> "%TEMP%\StartupLog.txt" 2>&1 > === > > I saved the command script onto: C:\Users\Administrator\ > AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\startup.cmd > > The issue I face is that the command script I put onto > C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start > Menu\Programs\Startup\startup.cmd is deleted during the "sysprep" > process, as part of the Windows template creation on CloudStack as per: > > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack- > administration/en/4.8/templates/_create_windows.html > > Is there a way I can put the startup.cmd file somewhere else so that it > will not be deleted during the sysprep process but will still be executed > when the VM boots up or when the Administrator user logs in? Or is there > any better approach on how to automate the data-disk initialization? > > Any advice is highly appreciated. > > Looking forward to your reply, thank you. > > Cheers. >
