[THIN] Re: Imaging Metaframe servers by breaking mirrored set and moving to another server.
- From: "W.F. van Sandwijk" <wvsandwijk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:29:03 +0100
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Wessel van Sandwijk
Technisch Specialist
Thinclient Consultancy BV
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Email : wvsandwijk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ghost 6.5.1 is not equipt with the right software for preforming a ghost
of a windows 2000 server (NTFS5) Try to use ghost 7.5
Use the ghost.exe command en place the following
For dumping a complete disk and mainting disk information Ghost.exe
-fdsp -szee
For dumping a complete partition and maintaining partition information
Ghost.exe -fdsz -szee
We are using ghost 7.5 for cloning Terminal servers and we cloned 12
Terminal servers this way.
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Wessel van Sandwijk
Technisch Specialist
Thinclient Consultancy BV
Capelle aan den IJssel
Tel : 010-2582670
Fax : 010-2582601
Email : wvsandwijk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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kevin.mcphail@xxxxxxxxxxx
Verzonden: donderdag 20 maart 2003 18:28
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Onderwerp: [THIN] Imaging Metaframe servers by breaking mirrored set and
moving to another server.
I am trying to image 3 identical Dell Systems in my Server farm. One of
the three is running well, while the other two have several annoying
user issues. I have given up on making ghost work so I tried to break
the mirror on the one that is stable and place that disk in the one of
the ones that is not stable. I followed the directions in the Citrix
article "Imaging Metaframe XP using Ghost 6.5.1".
The steps I took were:
Server1 = Server I am breaking mirror on (Stable server)
Server2 = Server I am placing Server 1's disk into
1. Shut down server2 and remove its second disk so I have a backup
of
the current configuration I can revert to if the mirror image does not
work..
2. Boot server2 and remove it from all published apps.
3. Uninstall metaframe on server2 to remove it from the farm.
4. Confirm server2 no longer shows up in the server list of the
other
servers in the farm.
5. Shutdown server2 and remove the second drive. Put 2nd drive from
server 1 in Server 2. Server 2 now has only one unmirrored drive that is
a mirror copy of server 1.
6. Unplug server2's network cables and boot.
7. Server 2 now is exact image of server 1. Logon and remove server
2
from domain.
8. On domain pdc remove server2 from domain as well. Necessary
since
server 2 is not plugged into network at this point.
9. Change IP address of server 2.
10. stop ima service and set it to manual.
11. remove wsid= line from mf20.dsn file
12. delete wfcname.ini file
13. delete rmlocaldatabase files
14. Run sysinternals NEWSID app to replace SID.
15. reboot and plug server2 into network
16. log on to server and add back to domain.
17. edit the mf20.dsn file document does not say to add WSID line
back
(is this correct?). Confirm Server and UID are correct. No changes made.
18. recreate rmlocaldatabase file
19. Set IMA to auto and reboot.
After I reboot I am able to see the server I just recreated in the
resource manager of another server. I am even able to publish its
desktop. The IMA service starts and no errors show up in either the
Application log or the System log on either Server 1 or server 2. But I
cannot log onto either server though ica and when I open the cmc at the
console it hangs. If I try to log on through nfuse I get an unspecified
error when trying to retrieve published applications. In looking through
the document there are a couple things that I do slightly differently
but I am not sure how to confirm if they are an issue.
1. It says not to add any licenses to the image but since I am using a
working copy of server1 I could not remove licenses before the image.
When I look at the licenses for server 2 from the CMC of server 3 (only
one I can
open) no licenses are showing.
2. I did not run sysprep but instead newsid. Should be fine since I do
not need it to redetect hardware.
3. I removed the wsid from the mf20.dsn file but never re-added anything
back. Does not seem right but directions did not specify adding anything
back.
That's it. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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