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HP Rapid Deployment Pack – PXE Settings for Deploying Windows OS

4 Comments Posted by vinf.net on April 17, 2008

The followign screens show a working configuration from the RDP 3.80 PXE Configuration Manager

Have had lots of problems with this deploying Windows OS’es and VMWare ESX 3.5 onto an HP c7000 Blade chassis, still not resolved all the problems, but this definitely works for deploying Windows!

The documentation reads like you should always use the Linux PE configuration and it handles switching between WinPE/LinuxPE depending on which OS job you drop on a target. in my experience this doesn’t work and you need to manually change the PXE configuration to default to LinuxPE or WinPE depending on the OS you want to target.

And

Still a work in progress as I have a c7000 to which I want to deploy a mix of Windows and ESX/Redhat OS’es….

I did get a previous installation to install ESX 3.5 by hacking the default ESX 3.02 job, but its since been re-installed and I can’t do it now

RDP 6.90 seems to list Windows 2008 and ESX 3.5 in the quickspecs, but I’ll be damned if I can find where to download it, going to have to call HP methinks!

As I’ve posted before installing via iLo is just a non-starter if you really do want a flexible and fast deployment configuration – so it has to be RDP.

More later…

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4 responses to “HP Rapid Deployment Pack – PXE Settings for Deploying Windows OS”

Kosch April 24, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I’ve got a RDP job & script for 6.9 that works with ESX 3.5u4 let me know if you want a copy.

I ran into a similar situation and didnt fancy upgrading RDP.

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- Martin June 11, 2009 at 6:13 pm
  Hello Kosch,
  
  I’m interested in the job / script for esx 3.5.
  
  We also using HP Blades Enclosure C7000
  
  Thanks
  Martin
  
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Koen May 8, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Hello Kosch,

I’m interested in the job / script for esx 3.5u4 does it configure the network switches also??

Thanks
Koen

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Guenter June 10, 2009 at 10:24 am
Hello Kosch,

I’m also interested in the job / script for VMware ESX 3.5u4

Thanks
Guenter

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