SCVMM Bare Metal Deployment with SAN Boot

Can VMM assign "boot targets" to hosts while deploying them? Or do I have to do it manually before initiating VMM deployment? Specifically talking about PowerEdge M420. But also interested if it is possible in general?
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Hi Sir,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305547
This article shows the key point is we need to make the LUN works properly like a local disk , it also means that we need to prepare HBA driver within WinPE image before the deployment .
I have also read these blog regarding adding drivers for SCVMM Bare Metal Deployment:
http://www.thecloudbuilderblog.com/blog/2012/1/26/scvmm-2012-bare-metal-provisioning-adding-drivers-to-winpe.html
http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/microsoft-hyper-v-articles/installation-and-deployment/performing-bare-metal-installation-hyper-v-using-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2012.html
Best Regards,
Elton Ji
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SCVMM 2012 R2 Bare-Metal-Deployment not starting

Hey!
I have a W2K12 R2 Server with SCVMM 2012 R2 CU4 and enabled WDS-Role.
The Server ist already registered as a PXE-Server within SCVMM.
When I start a Bare-Metal-Deplyoment, it fails during DeepDiscovery, because it's not booting into the Bootimage using PXE.
I had to set DHCP-Options 66 (SCVMM-IP) and 67 (boot\x64\wdsnbp.com).
The VMM OSD Provider is installed. Below is the output of wdsutil /get-server /show:config I have also checked the path (D:\RemoteInstall\DCMgr\bin\OSDPxeProvider.dll) for the .dll
WDS PXE Providers:
Name: VMMOSDProvider
Path: D:\RemoteInstall\DCMgr\bin\OSDPxeProvider.dll
Order: 1
Critical: Yes
Name: WDSDCPXE
Path: C:\Windows\system32\wdsdcpxe.dll
Order: 2
Critical: No
Within WDS PXE is configured to respond only to knwon Clients (or not to any)
In the WDS-EventLog I Receive the following error:
The following client attempted to boot from PXE but was ignored because it is not recognized:
Hardware Address: 40-F2-E9-C3-71-74
IP: 192.168.222.5
Device ID: {2740D0D9-885B-11E4-AF74-40F2E9C37170}
ClientArchitecture: 1
Prestaged: false
The Device GUIDs are matching between VMM and the Device.
Do you havbe any further Ideas?
Kind Regards
jojo

Hi Sir,
As the title you posted , it is VMM bare-metal-deployment .
Please refer to following artiles for VMM bare-metal-deployment :
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610658.aspx
http://borgamentes.blogspot.in/2013/09/bare-metal-deployment-with-vmm-2012-sp1.html
Hope it is helpful to you .
Best Regards,
Elton Ji
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Bare-metal deployment to previously used host fails - removing host references.

I am running SCVMM 2012 R2 and setting up bare-metal deployment of Hyper-V hosts. I got it almost figured out but I am getting a failure when it tries to register the host with the error The fault reason was: 'Unexpected registration of physical
computer 4a310166-642f-e211-0050-05000000003a.' in the vmm log file vmmagentpe.exe.log. The error onscreen in PE is
Error: 803d0013. I have been using this server for my testing and have had a few other failures which are now resolved. All other tasks in the job complete except for
Wait for physical machine to reboot and customization to be finished.
This host was also registered in VMM as part of a manually built cluster before I started looking into bare-metal. I believe the problem is that there are probably references to this host in VMM.
Does anyone know where to look in the db or another method to remove anything related to this host?

I figured this out. It was rebooting to PXE instead of booting to the newly installed OS. once I reset the boot order to local disk it came up and ran mini-setup, domain join and all as expected.
-tim

Bare Metal Deployment - find-SCComputer reports wrong GUID

Hardware: IBM x3850, RSA version 1.42 (latest)
Bare metal deployment from the SCVMM GUI (2012R2) fails with error code 1001. Wrong SMBIOS GUID is reported by SCVMM.
Interestingly we´ve tried 3 different tools of which the first and second tool reports the correct GUID:
1st Tool is from Sourceforge called "ipmiuitl"
GUID = cda9bc20-d7e0-11e2-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
2nd Tool is from IBM called ASU or ASU64,
GUID: cda9bc20-d7e0-11e2-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
3rd Tool SCVMM Powershell Find-SCComputer
GUID: 20bca9cd-e0d7-e211-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
Seems like find-SCComputer reads the first three sections backwards.
Any thoughts?

Hey mate,
With respect to the deep discovery:
Are you able to check the WDS logs on your PXE server?? Are then any error events in there for the WDS server rejecting GUIDs or rather rejecting requests because of an unexpected GUID??
Regards,
adrian

Rename vNics during bare metal deployment

Hi all!
I am deploying a cluster of Hyper-V hosts with VMM, each host with two vSwitches. The first vSwitch is intend for guest VMs and the second for host management, heartbeat and live migration (all vNics). I have configured IP-pools for the three
vNics and technically it's all working like a charm. The issue I have concerns the actual day to day management in regards to monitoring which host has which IP. When running Get-SCIPAddress | Out-GridView it produces a list of all IPs "leased"
from VMM, but I find it hard to see which host has the actual address for the heartbeat and Live migration vNics when looking at the description column. For the bare metal deployed hosts it the description shows the vSwitch name plus an incremental number
and not the actual hostname of the host using that particular IP.
Example: For host1 it would read "HostSwitch5" for the LiveMigration IP and "HostSwitch6" for the heartbeat IP.
If you have a great number of hosts and all of them show the same description it gets pretty confusing.
The management vNic IP shows the hostname for the host in the description column and I'd really like the other vNics to show the same. Maybe this has something to do with this being the only vNic configured with a gateway and DNS or something?
Now, I could use the AssignedToID column but that only outputs the host's GUID which (at least for me) is not "human readable" :) So, I'd like to change the description field of each IP to read the actual hostname of the host using it. Is this
possible?

I specifically asked the product team about that.
And this has actually been the behavior all along. However, it was never my experience until after applying UR2.
And this is an experience vs. Product behavior thing. Somewhere in the process something changed with how the one is decided upon when vmm gets more than one match.
I am going to add this to my discussion with them.
Glad we have your issue resolved.
Brian Ehlert
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Bare-metal deployment of non-hyper-v host possible?

Is it possible to use VMM 2012 R2 to perform a bare-metal deployment of a physical server which will not be a Hyper-V server? Just trying to find out if there's an opportunity to consolidate our build process to replace OSD or using the MDT. In this scenario
I'm willing to consider options that don't involve using the VMM/App Controller interface (i.e., calling the PowerShell cmdlets directly).
William Busby, PMP

Nope. not at this time.
VMM focuses on managing the fabric components that the VMs require.
You can build a Service Template that stands up an app server as a VM. But, it would be managed by VMM. So it really does not fit your ask.
You need to look into configurations and desired state configuration. At least that way you can define your end result and apply it to any machine. But you still have to automate the deployment of the OS somehow. Using WDS if you want to
go that route, or any of the 3rd party management layers.
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Bare Metal Deployment

When Deploying a VHD through Bare Metal you end up with a C: that is 40 BG is size and a D: the size of the physical drive. Is there any way to change the size of the resulting C:
Is there any good documentation on this

The size of the "C:" drive is dependant on the size of the VHD(x) file you are deploying to the host.
You will always see the D drive and it will always show the entire size of the physical drive as it is indeed the physical drive that hosts the VHD(x) file (the C drive is the mounted VHDx file stored on the "D" physical drive).
If you want to see the C drive as using all of the available space the physical drive has, size it appropriately when creating it.
However... 50-60Gb should be sufficient for any deployment as it should only ever be the Base OS, plus Hyper-V component + drivers + Management tools/Agents. The physical drive needs enough space to store the expanded size of the VHD(x) file plus the Page
File (this is created outside of the VHD(x) file).
This also means that you can then use that VHD(x) file to deploy to any server with a physical drive bigger than say 60Gb rather than sizing the VHD(x) file at 200Gb and only being able to use it with servers with 200Gb+ physical drives.
This link might help you understand it more as it's a general Windows feature not VMM/Hyper-V:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825689.aspx
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Linux Bare Metal Provisioning with OEM Pack for Linux for RAC 11gGR2 OEL 5X

Hi,
Has anyone ever used the OEM Pack for Linux to provision Bare Metal Linux servers?
See: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/omp_linux.html
We are thinking of using this tool to provision our Linux Servers, because we are UL-Customers with OEL, and this Tool is free of Charge for UL- Premier and Basic Limited Customers.
I have only found Documentation which seem to suggest that the OEM Linux Pack is supported with OEM Grid Control 10.2.0.4 and Oracle 10G ,
but i am not sure if this Pack is supported for use with OEM Grid Control 10.2.0.5 and Oracle RAC 11gR2.
I would appreciate your Help on this.
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Bare metal deployment stuck at point 1.2.13

Hello everyone,
I got sccm2k12 R2 and am deploying a VHD file that has been syspreped.
Everything is going ok and the image is being deployed to the physical machine.
However, the physical machine being provisoned is prompting me for ctrl alt delete to sign in and the sccm server provisioning the server is hanging on step 1.2.13 0%
Does anyone know of why this is stuck?
I also did a reboot by singing into the physical machine but sccm just keeps hanging on step "1.2.13 wait for physical machine to reboot and customization to be finished"
Andre

Hi there,
Yes, my problem was DNS.
I had 2 domains in the same subnet.
Setup:
1 subnet like 192.168.1.0/24 with domain abc.local and dns server 192.168.1.1
My setup and my domain is andre.local with ip 192.168.1.100
As my sccm server is sccm.andre.local and the DNS server was 192.168.1.1 and I didn't had configured a conditional forward for the andre.local it couldn't resolve sccm.andre.local on the 192.168.1.1
So please make sure that your DNS server ( the dns that is given on pxe boot to the pysical to be provisioned server ) is able to verify your sccm server dns name.
Solution was to make a conditional forward for everything that has the andre.local to be directed to the 192.168.1.100
Andre

Difficulty with SAN boot of solaris 10 (on V245) from HP EVA 4000 -

Hi
This is my first post. I'm trying to get my head around what's preventing me booting a V245 solaris 10 from a LUN presented from an HP EVA 4000.
The machine boots up ok from a local disk. So, i've done the LUN masking (presentation) on the EVA and the Brocade zoning - solaris can see the disk.
I've formated it close to the current internal root disk, and had used ufsdump/ufsrestore and installboot to copy the contents of / onto the new LUN , which i had mounted as /mnt.
My problem is i just can't seem to get at the new disk at the ok prompt - i'm never quite sure that i'm booting from the correct disk.
I believe all the compatibility with o/s qlc card drivers and the EVA are in order.
The qlc HBA is as follows:
Sun SG-XPCI2FC-QF2/x6768A 1077 2312 1077 10A and have suitable patch 119139-33
Here's some output:
root@bwdnbtsl02# uname -a
SunOS bwdnbtsl02 5.10 Generic_137111-01 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V245
root@bwdnbtsl02#
root@bwdnbtsl02# luxadm probe
No Network Array enclosures found in /dev/es
Found Fibre Channel device(s):
Node WWN:50001fe15009df00 Device Type:Disk device
Logical Path:/dev/rdsk/c4t600508B4001066A60000C00002B50000d0s2
root@bwdnbtsl02#
Now down at ok prompt, probe-scsi-all can see the EVA (HSV) LUNS
(Here's a sample of the output)
ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@1f,700000/pci@0/SUNW,qlc@2,1
************************* Fabric Attached Devices ************************
Adapter portId - 640100
Device PortId 640000 DeviceId 1 WWPN 210000e08b8a3e4f
Device PortId dc0000 DeviceId 2 WWPN 50001fe15009df09
Lun 0 HP HSV200 6220
Lun 1 DISK HP HSV200 6220
Device PortId d20000 DeviceId 3 WWPN 50001fe150092f19
Lun 0 HP HSV200 6220
/pci@1f,700000/pci@0/SUNW,qlc@2
************************* Fabric Attached Devices ************************
Adapter portId - 630100
Device PortId 630000 DeviceId 1 WWPN 210100e08baa3e4f
Device PortId 780000 DeviceId 2 WWPN 50001fe15009df08
Lun 0 HP HSV200 6220
Lun 1 DISK HP HSV200 6220
Device PortId 6e0000 DeviceId 3 WWPN 50001fe150092f18
Lun 0 HP HSV200 6220
So, i attempt to boot with the following:
ok boot /pci@1f,700000/pci@0/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/disk@w50001fe15009df08,0:a
Boot device: /pci@1f,700000/pci@0/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/disk@w50001fe15009df08,0:a File and args:
Can't read disk label.
Can't open disk label package
Can't open boot device
{1} ok
If anyone can put me straight here i'd be most grateful.
thanks john

hi,guys:
i am interesting in your question. i have never try it like your experience.
maybe the cause is drive . either the OS is running . the drive can load. or relation with the style of server .
i think you can try it like the following again.
when you install OS , you chocie EVA disk .
remeber . if the test is complete. you must tell me .
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What is your preferred method of remote bare metal hyper-v 2012 server imaging

I need to remotely provision (image) 32 Dell 620 servers (they have iDRAC installed), I will have system center 2012. I was thinking PXE boot and place images on the servers. I know I can use the iDRAC to remote boot a virtual ISO file and install the OS
that way. I am looking for a better faster and more pre-configured OS way.
I am used to using Shadow Protect (ghost like product) and making and placing 0 and 1 disk images on servers, I would like to continue along that vein. But with added ability to PXE boot and image the server that way. I am looking into clonezilla and want
any thoughts of success or failures with server 2012 deployment.
I understand that you can use system center 2012 to deploy images to your bare metal servers (lots of moving parts and looks pretty complicated) and that it will then deploy a VHD image file to your server. I am assuming that means it will boot to the VHD
file (hyper-v light) . I have heard this slows down disk read\writes and can cause some issues.
Thoughts with clear instructions please. Only link me to a website if it helps you to not type so much.
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You can use SCVMM 2012/2012R2 bare metal deployment
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Is WS2012R2E Capable of Bare Metal Restore to UEFI Client?

Hi,
After two weeks of fruitless effort attempting a client bare metal restore to a UEFI machine, I'm now wondering if it is supported in W2012R2E?
This same machine is able to use WDS over the network to do a remote software install. Similarly, two other non-EUFI (BIOS) machines on the same network/server are able to do bare metal restores with no problem.
No matter how the client UEFI machine is configured, it always gets to the same point in the "Full System Restore Wizard" and gets hung up - it can't find the server on the network. (Again, it works fine when using the same WDS server to do a remote
software install - finds the server just fine).
Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff

Hi Justin,
Let me take your questions one by one:
Was it an error message when the Full System Restore Wizard hung up? Or no any error message, just the wizard hung up?
What happens is that the Full System Restore Wizard reports that it cannot find the server. It then offers an option to either search again or
to manually enter an IP address. When I enter an IP address manually, that's when the "Unknown Network Error" occurs. Note that repeated searches don't help. The Wizard never finds the server. See below where I give the full sequence of events.
When run Full System Restore Wizard, please ping the server with server name and IP address from the client computer. Any find?I
don't know that this is possible. At the point when the wizard is running, it's running under a downloaded image from the server (i.e. there IS connectivity to the server), but there's no OS to go to for the ping command. (If you know of a way to do that,
please let me know and I will try it).
The sequence of events is:
The client computer is set up to boot via PXE over the network.
The client computer receives a small net boot file. A text screen which offers the option to select either an x86 or X64 Full System Restore (I've tried both - doesn't make any difference).
Selecting one of the option results in another file downloaded from the server. Control is transferred to this file, and the display goes into graphical mode.
A dialog box pops up allowing one to select language. Once that is selected, another window opens that shows progress. At some point in this process, the program indicates that it cannot find network drivers, and they need to be loaded via USB. (Note that,
as a test, I've actually used WDS to load drivers into the image that was downloaded at this point - but it still claims it cannot find network drivers).
A dialog box opens giving the opportunity to click to load drivers.
I click the button. Another dialog opens and tells me to insert a USB key with drivers on it.
I insert a USB key with network drivers. Click the button that says scan for network drivers.
After a few seconds, the drivers are found and a dialog reports that fact.
At that point, the window that appears is the Full System Restore Wizard. It asks to click "Next" to search for Windows Servers.
When I click next, the cursor changes to a "waiting" cursor for about 30 seconds, while presumably the wizard is searching for servers. (Note that the machine just completed downloading at least two files from that very server).
After some time elapses, a dialog appears indicating that the server couldn't be found. It offers two options, "Search Again", or manually enter a server name or IP.
Searching again has the same results. Manually entering an IP or server name results in the "Unknown Network Error" I've referred to.
At this point, you cannot proceed further. Clicking "Next" causes the network error message to come back again. Clicking "Cancel" drops you out of the wizard and the computer reboots.
Please check those log files which were modified when run the Full System Restore Wizard.
I will try this again when I arrive home tonight and examine the logs.
Thanks,
Jeff

Bare metal restore of full server backup fails with RPC error 0x800706BA (server 2012)

With Windows Server 2012, after creating a successful windows server backup (full server), I am unable to do a bare metal restore of the system.
EFI System Partition, C:, D: are the volumes on a single array (Raid 5).
Loading WinRE and launching re-image, the full server restore stops after completing the C: restore just after beginning the D: drive restore (data volume) with the error with the message about RPC error 0x800706BA, unavailable.
The system will not boot as a result of the failure.
What may be causing this?
[edit]
I think I have two things working against me here... one, Volume Shadow Copy service wasn't running in WinPE and two.. the D: volume contains data deduplication.
I think this is causing some of my problems.
Is there an additional service that I need to start in WinPE to get a volume that was deduplicated restored perhaps using wbadmin?

Hi,
Thanks for the reply Shaon.
The hardware system is identical; however, I am increasing storage capacity from 12TB to 16TB. Basically, the system is the same, just new hard drives (4x4TB versus 4x3TB). Drives are all identical enterprise class drives and I am actually using
the same system (backup, swap drives then restore).
I tried both using the WinRE restore (re-image) with the backup set, and tried using wbadmin. Both produce same RPC unavailable messages (although using the GUI based tool via WinRE provides the additional error code #).
I do not have any idea what to look at to try to figure this one out.
[edit]
I was just informed of this posting:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/147efccc-e0e9-4458-852e-c3a44ae5cb64/the-system-image-restore-failed-error-details-he-rpc-server-is-unavailable-0x800706ba?forum=windowsbackup
and in my case, this lab server does in fact act also as a DC as well as a file server... do I need to spin up a secondary controller (perhaps in a VM on another machine) to do this restore?

UCS B-Series bare metal OS FC Issues with failover

My customer is seeing loss of access to FC attached SAN on b-series blades that have windows and Red Hat installed bare metal, VMware are fine just these 2 OS's. It happens when the 6100 fails over to the subordinate. They say they reboot the servers 4-5 times before they are live on the fabric again as intended. They have many UCS systems in many environments with differing versions of firmware and too many variables to list here, looking to see if anyone seen and rectified this, possible drivers for 2008r2 and RH ???
thx
dave

Dave,
Proper fabric failover really pertains to the OS and how is deals with the storage platform paths. When UCS failsover the the fabric an MPIO driver on the OS must be tested and functional to achieve proper a connection status. When installing Windows or Linux and bare metal you will need to ensure that the correct MPIO driver is installed on the OS. This driver should be obtained from the storage admin in your enviroment and must be installed and tested for proper path failover prior ro any UCS failover testing. In the case of VMware, vSphere uses a native MPIO driver and works out of the box, Windows and Linux will require a MPIO driver to match this funtionalilty.
I hope this helps,
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SCCM 2012: OSD to VHDX, deploy VHDX bare metal via TS?

Hi,
I wonder what your point of view is on the following scenario:
1.Deploy ts to vhdx
2.Deploy this vhdx to pc (bare metal) via another ts, this ts would then:
-wipe the disk
-make bootpartition
-add vdisk via bcdboot
It would give a lot of flexibility in terms of deployment speed (only 1 file to deploy, not that many reboots)backup (mount vhd to recover data),adding extra os, running clients vhd on hyperv host ...
Only issue would be how to add machine specific drivers.
Please advise.
J.
Jan Hoedt

Hello,
Only issue would be how to add machine specific drivers.
The answer is to this question. And in order to deploy VHD, you can follow this blog:
SCCM 2012 R2 – Create Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)

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