[THIN] Re: Cloning with Remapped Drives
- From: Tom Howarth <tom.howarth@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 15:41:53 +0000
have you tried to add a post sysprep job to run the drive mapping
tool on the server and remap the drives to the one prior to imaging.
just a thought, I have never tried it
On 05/11/05, Luchette, Jon <JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We've actually been using RDP to deploy operating systems and apps to some of
> our blades, just haven't tried it yet with Citrix servers with remapped
> drives. It is a great tool. Thanks!
> We just weren't sure if there was a better/faster way to do it since we are
> booting our blades from the SAN, so we thought we might be able to take
> advantage of the snapclones feature of our SAN to possibly make it even
> easier/faster. In general, we can blow down an image using RDP but it takes
> around 15 - 25 minutes depending on the size of the image. By using sysprep
> in conjunction with snapclones on our EVA SAN we can deploy an OS to a blade
> in about 2 or 3 minutes. Unfortunately, this second option doesn't seem to
> work with Citrix and remapped drives.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
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> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of M
> Sent: Fri 11/4/2005 6:02 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Cloning with Remapped Drives
>
>
> Crikey ... how are you managing the Blades ?
> RDP is a great way to deploy operating systems and apps to your Blades along
> with managing them.
>
> BTW version 2.2 is out and available from the HP RDP website.
> http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/rdp/rdp-dl.html
>
> Your enclosure licenses will be valid
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Luchette, Jon <mailto:JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 10:45 PM
> Subject: RE: [THIN] Re: Cloning with Remapped Drives
>
> We haven't tried RDP yet, we were trying to use Sysprep when we
> encountered the problem. We'll just try RDP then, it sounds like it should
> work...
>
> Does anyone know of a way to make sysprep work? Just curious?
>
> Thanks!
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of M
> Sent: Fri 11/4/2005 5:09 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Cloning with Remapped Drives
>
>
> What issues are you having with RDP and remapped drives ?
>
> RDP has supported cloning with remapped drives since an Altiris DS
> patch for 1.5 was released last year.
>
> http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/rdp/knowledgebase/00000122.html
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Luchette, Jon <mailto:JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 8:41 PM
> Subject: [THIN] Cloning with Remapped Drives
>
> Hello, we are running 8 MF XP FR3 servers with sp4. The
> Operating System is Windows 2003 server sp1. These are HP blade servers that
> currently boot from our SAN. We are trying to develop an effective cloning
> strategy but have run into the issue from having remapped drive letters (U:
> and V:). I know that this has been discussed on this list in the past and I
> thought there was some type of solution that works now, but I cannot remember
> for sure what is was. What are people doing to get around this issue? We
> have licensing for HP's RDP (rapid deployment pack), but if you know of other
> solutions that work, please let me know as well.
>
> Thanks in advance for your replies!
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Jon Luchette
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Tom at home
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