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Cisco UCS Hyper-V Cluster – Create Hyper-V Image for Blade Servers – Part 2

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We use Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 as Operating System for our Cisco Blade Notes. The Cisco UCS does need some special drivers which are not included in Hyper-V Server Image (Network and HBA). So I created a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 ISO file which includes the Drivers from the Cisco UCS.

I made a blog post about adding Drivers to a Windows ISO, this is pretty much the same.

  1. First Download the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 ISO from microsoft.com
  2. Download the Drivers from Cicso.com, you can download the Bundle File which also includes firmware.
  3. Download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit
  4. Extract the Hyper-V ISO to C:\temp\hypervr2
  5. Extract the Windows Driver folder in the Cisco Driver ISO (In my case ucs-b2xx-drivers-1.3.1g.iso) to C:\temp\Drivers\Windows
  6. Create a folder for the WIM mount point C:\temp\WIM
    Folders
  7. Start Windows AIK Deployment Tools Command Prompt from Start menu
    Windows AIK Deployment Tools Command Prompt
  8. Now mount the install.wim file form the original Hyper-V Image (C:\temp\hypervr2\SOURCES) to C:\temp\WIM 
    imagex /mountrw C:\temp\hypervr2\SOURCES\install.wim 1 C:\temp\wim
  9. Add Drivers with dism 
    CD C:\temp\Drivers\Windows\Network\Emulex\M72KR\W2K8R2\x64
dism /image:C:\temp\WIM /add-driver /driver:. /recurse
  10. After adding all drivers to the Image you can unmout the WIM Image 
    imagex /unmount /commit C:\temp\wim
  11. Now create the new ISO file 
    oscdimg -n -m -bc:\temp\hypervr2\boot\etfsboot.com C:\temp\hypervr2 C:\temp\hypervr2drivers.iso

Now you can use this new Image to deploy the Hyper-V Hosts on your Cisco UCS Blades.

Add Drivers to Windows Installation ISO

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If you have a Windows 7 or even a Windows Server 2008 R2 Server ISO file and you need to add drivers to this ISO file, this little how to shows you how you can do that.

  1. First create the following folders
    C:\temp\WindowsISO (Unpack the windows.iso to this folder)
    C:\temp\drivers (Add all driver folders in this folder the drivers have to be in .inf format)
    C:\temp\wim (Is a temp folder for the WIM file)
    C:\ temp\WindowsISOdrivers (the new .ISO file will be created here)
  2. Download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit
  3. Start Windows AIK Deployment Tools Command Prompt from Start menu
  4. Mount the install.wim file from C:\temp\WindowsISO to C:\temp\wim 
    imagex /mountrw C:\temp\WindowsISO\SOURCES\install.wim 1 C:\temp\wim
  5. Add Drivers with dism 
     CD C:\temp\drivers\Network\Emulex\M72KR\W2K8R2\x64
dism /image:C:\temp\wim /add-driver /driver:. /recurse
  6. Now unmount the WIM Image 
    imagex /unmount /commit C:\temp\wim
  7. Create the new ISO file 
    oscdimg -n -m -bc:\temp\WindowsISO\boot\etfsboot.com C:\temp\WindowsISO C:\temp\WindowsISOdrivers\windows.iso

HowTo: Install Roles and Features Windows Server 2008 R2 Core (Shell)

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This Guide should help you to install Roles and Features on Windows Server 2008 R2 per shell or on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Server.

Under Windows Server 2008 you could install Roles and Features with the command OCSETUP. Since we use Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft used the tool called DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool).

For checking availible Server roles type:

Dism /online /get-features /format:table

To enable a Feature or a Role, in this case the DNS Server Role, you just type:

Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:DNS-Server-Core-Role