[THIN] Re: Trouble replicating MPS3 on W2K3
- From: Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:06:33 +0100
The trouble is, once the drives have been remapped, the server refuses to
boot as it can't find M:\...\ctxgina.dll. The only option at this point is
to restart.
However, it isn't as bad as I feared. Using Sysinternals excellent ERD 2003
boot disk I was able to save all my kix scripts, flex profiles, group policy
settings etc to USB drive. I've reinstalled W2K3 and Citrix, restored all
the saved stuff and only have apps to do now. It might even take less than a
day in total.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Mack [mailto:ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 May 2005 12:12
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Trouble replicating MPS3 on W2K3
Hi Angus,
Sysprep resets a few things, and one of them is (obviously) remapped drives.
You can almost put things right with a simple registry hack under
HKLM\System\MountedDevices or by re-running driveremap.
But since your systems are all the same hardware (blades) why not just
take the synchronised disk, stick it into one of the other blades
change the IP address and run newsid to change the machine ID and SID.
That'd be a lot faster and cleaner.
Alternatively it's really easy to script a drive remap in an
unattended build so if you're interested I can provide a couple of
scripts we use. Even for PS4 ;-)
regards,
Rick
Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems
On 5/19/05, Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm in the process of setting up our new MPS3 farm, running on 10 Dell
> PE1855MC blades. the first server is (or was) setup exactly the way I want
> it and ready for replication. I disabled the IMA service, edited the
machine
> name out of MF20.DSN and ran sysprep. All good so far. I removed one of
the
> mirrored hard drives, installed a blank one and restarted the server. I
ran
> through the mini-setup but just before the end (half way through
> "Registering Components") the server rebooted and started the mini-setup
> again. After a few laps of this particular race track I removed the second
> hard drive again. This time the mini-setup completed properly but after a
> reboot I am informed that m:\program files\citrix\ctxgina.dll (or
something
> similar) could not be loaded. It appears that my drive letters have
reverted
> from M: to C:, according to the refresh install of W2K3 that I'm currently
> doing.
>
> I thought the combination of sysprep and hardware RAID would maintain my
> drive letters, particularly since the drive in question hasn't even been
out
> of the source server!
>
> The real query is, once I've reinstalled W2K3 will I be able to uninstall
> MPS3, change my drive letters again and reinstall MPS3? All my apps were
> installed while the system drive was M: so hopefully once it's M: again
> they'll still work.
>
> Or am I clutching at straws and staring down the barrel of another 2 weeks
> configuration work to get going again?
>
> Once things are back in shape, should I simply disable IMA etc and mirror
> the drive as-is, without using Sysprep. I've used that method successfully
> with MF1.8 and XP but I wanted to do it "properly" this time.
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