bookie32 Posted October 20, 2011 Author Posted October 20, 2011 Hi again!OK! I have followed the guide cluberti has written to a point...Now have my two Servers with their roles added etc....I created a deployment share as cluberti has it and even added my operating system and task sequence to deploy Windows 7 Home Premium x64...so far so good...I kept the basic rules and bootstrap...for the time being...I updated my deployment share and created my boot wims and added them to WDS as shown by cluberti....I then created my Windows Home Premium x64 virtual machine and started it.....I had to fill in a lot of info because of he basic rules and bootstrap, but the deployment went well no errors...YES!I then updated my Windows 7 Home Premium x64 with all updates + sp1 and then created a snapshot "Before Sysprep"..I then created a new task for the capture and sysprep of the virtual machine and started my Windows 7 Home Premium x64...it looked OK and then came up with the errors shown in pic below....QuestionShould I have update the deployment share after adding the new task? If so - then what option is best the first or second for creating boot wims?OK! The other little annoyance is the adding of the Hyper-V integration services....despite what is being said I am getting the error shown in the pic below...so what verison of Windows Server 2008 r2 do I need for that to work as it should?bookie32
bookie32 Posted October 21, 2011 Author Posted October 21, 2011 Hi I must have really p***ed someone off in another life because I do feel I am being ignorred...I have obviously outstayed my welcome on this forum, so I wont waste any more of my time asking for help from those who just find it amusing to ignore me...Good luck with the forum!bookie32
allen2 Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 (edited) Sometime not getting an answer isn't being ignored, it might be that those who seen your posts doesn't know the answer (and i'm in this case). Edited October 21, 2011 by allen2
Tripredacus Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 Hi I must have really p***ed someone off in another life because I do feel I am being ignorred...I have obviously outstayed my welcome on this forum, so I wont waste any more of my time asking for help from those who just find it amusing to ignore me...Good luck with the forum!bookie32I read each of your posts in this thread. I agree with allen, I have no response because, while I do set up and maintain various Server 2008R2 systems, I have no particular experience with what your project has become.
MagicAndre1981 Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 again use VMWare (Player) and don't hassle with Hyper-V. Hyper-V sucks.
cluberti Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 QuestionShould I have update the deployment share after adding the new task? If so - then what option is best the first or second for creating boot wims?OK! The other little annoyance is the adding of the Hyper-V integration services....despite what is being said I am getting the error shown in the pic below...so what verison of Windows Server 2008 r2 do I need for that to work as it should?bookie32As to the first error, make sure you add your custom WIM like any other OS (there are guides by the Deployment Guy's blog and others how to add custom WIM files to MDT). As to the second, you shouldn't need to install the Hyper-V guest components to Windows 7 or 2008 R2 - they are already included in the driver.cab of the OS. You only need to add components to Vista and older OSes.
bookie32 Posted October 21, 2011 Author Posted October 21, 2011 Hi Sorry, guys...good at lashing out when I am in pain....just so fed up with living with pain 24/7...not so conducive to good moods....cluberti:The first error seems to be quite common if one tries to run the capture from the server instead of guest....worked OK when connecting from the guest...OK! ad to the second problem...not really a problem...just annoying and as you say not important in the great scheme of things...allen2:You are quite right about what you say......just fed up in general at the moment...nothing personal....after all the years of living with back pain I should know better than write on a forum when I am really low....apologise to all!!Magicandre1981:OK! to be quite honest I feel more at home with VMWare....just wanted to give Hyper-V a try.........should stick with what I know best and then sort out the problems as they arrise.....I would like to get everything tidied away soon, but still on a learning curve....Tripredacus:I read each of your posts in this thread. I agree with allen, I have no response because, while I do set up and maintain various Server 2008R2 systems, I have no particular experience with what your project has become. I lost my way a while ago....just trying to get something that works and......This is not aimed at anything you guys have said or helped me with...just that when one is sifting through all the info out there it is hard to make any sense of anything....... I am still weighing up Hyper-V or VMware and that is where I am getting stuck....but....the fog will clear eventually...hopefully before I retire bookie32
cluberti Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 Worst case scenario, I can provide you some "lab VMs" that were built using the trial time-bombed media available from Microsoft that I use to build my labs and do my blog posts.
bookie32 Posted October 22, 2011 Author Posted October 22, 2011 Hi cluberti I am hoping that shouldn't come to that....I do thank you for your offer.........What I would like to achieve after seing that one can have all roles on one server if the DHCP options below are ticked:Do not listen on port 67Configure DHCP option 60 to PXE ClientThis would mean that I only have virtual machines running that I am deploying to or capturing from....It would save on resources....Does that make sense?bookie32
bookie32 Posted October 23, 2011 Author Posted October 23, 2011 Hi cluberti Yes, you are right...re did the server yesterday and now the server has all roles and I have added a deployment....(tend to sleep a lot at the mo....bad cold and that gives me even more back pain!!)I did notice a post about adding XP to MDT 2010 (have a lot of customers with XP still) I could follow the guide but couldn't see where to put the "Autologon! reg entry? Is this something you have come across?Going to try and do some more today.....bookie32
CoffeeFiend Posted October 23, 2011 Posted October 23, 2011 I am still weighing up Hyper-V or VMwareWe're happily using VMware ESXi / vSphere at work (still on the old 4.1 though) and also Workstation on several PCs. No complaints whatsoever. I also talked to 4 or 5 of the biggest consulting firms around here in the last ~3 months (presidents, sales folks, various techs) and none of them actually deploy Hyper-V in a production environment nor recommend it. All of them install and support lots of vmware servers (some even offer cloud-based services). In case of a catastrophic failure we could even "rent" an emergency server that already has ESXi installed (not that it takes long to install) and have it here an hour or so, and then restore our VMs on it... The support at every level is fantastic. Everything just works. Plus, it works hand-in-hand with Workstation: not only the VMs are compatible but workstation will also export VMs to ESXi and so on (Microsoft's offering is sorely missing a Workstation-like product). PowerCLI is also nice (you can manage your VMs using PowerShell) and the various scripting APIs are very useful too.In fact, I've done a test run of installing ESXi 5 on a "home server" recently and I'm quite impressed overall (it's quite lightweight too). I want to see how Openfiler performs as a iSCSI target (for ESXi, over Gbit ethernet) next.I'd definitely give ESXi a try (it's free too). Just my $0.02.
bookie32 Posted October 23, 2011 Author Posted October 23, 2011 Hi CoffeeFiend I don't know if I can cope with yet another change at the mo..... I have available my copy of VMware workstation 7.1.4 and do like VMware a lot, but haven't seen a "how to" that would get me started on that...with ESXi?I am always open to new info and scenarios if you can point me in the right direction?Also, no offense intended....the level of expertise at the the VMware forum is high, but there is an awful lot that just basically offer two cents and then nothing more...and that realy p***es me off. Happened to me several times!!But, as pointed out, not anything personal against your two cents worth bookie32
CoffeeFiend Posted October 23, 2011 Posted October 23, 2011 I have available my copy of VMware workstation 7.1.4 and do like VMware a lot, but haven't seen a "how to" that would get me started on that...with ESXi?The point of ESXi was to replace the Hyper-V part of your project and nothing more. It's a better hypervisor and environment IMO. You would install your Win2008R2 under that as a VM (alongside any other VMs you may want or need) instead of Hyper-V being a role inside Win2008R2. You can basically think of ESXi as a VMware Workstation-like product which installs on the bare hardware (not an app running in Windows)I am always open to new info and scenarios if you can point me in the right direction?Downloading the ESXi ISO and the vSphere client (might as well get the free license key for ESXi at the same time too, in case you want to use it past the initial 60 days). But you don't really sound like you're in for another fun adventure (been living with chronic pain for ~10 years here, so I know what it feels like sometimes)Either ways, it changes essentially nothing to the other parts of your project (especially the MDT part, for which I'm afraid I can't even offer 2 cents worth!) and as such, solves none of the other problems you may have. Then again, if you want simplicity on a small-ish setup, then SBS was created just for that and it works quite well too.
bookie32 Posted October 23, 2011 Author Posted October 23, 2011 Hi CoffeeFiend Look I am game for anything at the moment if it leads to the right outcome....... Because of the time spent on this it wont make much difference now...... I have a basic Server 2008 r2 install at the moment and that has all roles installed including AD, DNS, DHCP, WDS, MDT and WAIK....I just don't want to p*** anyone off here that is trying to help me..... On the other hand at this stage it would be silly to rule out other options.....And I am learning a whole lot on this journey.......getting a bit long now B) So, I can get the license to allow me to continue using it past 60 days...I can take a look and see.....BTW i certainly didn't think I was on my own with constant pain.....it is being tired a lot of the time that gets me BUT it doesn't excuse bad behaviour on a forum such as this and I really do apologise for my outburst........bookie32
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