Cisco UCS Hyper-V Cluster – Install Blade Servers – Part 3

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

After you have created a new Hyper-V 2008 R2 ISO Installation image you can now start to install the Cisco Blade Servers. There are many ways (WDS, Virtual Media) how you can deploy the Hyper-V Image on your Blade Nodes. I will use the Virtual Media to install the Blade Notes in this guide.

Start the KVM Console in the UCS Manager
Attach the Hyper-V 2008 R2 Image to the Virtual Media
Now do the standard Hyper-V installation. With the Image we created Hyper-V will have all the drivers you need.
After the Installation is finished and you set the local administrator password. I change the IP Address of the Server and install the latest updates.

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

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

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.

First Download the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 ISO from microsoft.com
Download the Drivers from Cicso.com, you can download the Bundle File which also includes firmware.
Download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit
Extract the Hyper-V ISO to C:\temp\hypervr2
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
Create a folder for the WIM mount point C:\temp\WIM
Start Windows AIK Deployment Tools Command Prompt from Start menu
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
```

Add Drivers with dism

CD C:\temp\Drivers\Windows\Network\Emulex\M72KR\W2K8R2\x64
dism /image:C:\temp\WIM /add-driver /driver:. /recurse

After adding all drivers to the Image you can unmout the WIM Image
```
imagex /unmount /commit C:\temp\wim
```

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

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

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.

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)
Download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit
Start Windows AIK Deployment Tools Command Prompt from Start menu

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

Add Drivers with dism

 CD C:\temp\drivers\Network\Emulex\M72KR\W2K8R2\x64
dism /image:C:\temp\wim /add-driver /driver:. /recurse

Now unmount the WIM Image
```
imagex /unmount /commit C:\temp\wim
```

Create the new ISO file

oscdimg -n -m -bc:\temp\WindowsISO\boot\etfsboot.com C:\temp\WindowsISO C:\temp\WindowsISOdrivers\windows.iso

Error when trying to install Windows 7 x64 on your Mac

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

I tried to install Windows 7 Enterprise Edition x64 on older iMac at work with Bootcamp. After booting from the Windows 7 DVD I got the following error:

“Select CD-Rom Boot Type:_”

Now with this steps you can solve this issue by creating an new Windows 7 ISO image (I found this solution on Fluxbox.co.uk) :

Create this 3 folders: C:\Windows7exe, C:\Windows7iso and C:\Windows7dvd
Download oscdimg.exe and save it into C:\Windows7exe
Copy the Content of a Windows 7 DVD or ISO to C:\Windows7iso
Open the DOS prompt and navigate to the C:\Windows7exe directory (the place where oscdimg.exe was saved)
Run the oscdimg.exe with the following parameters:
oscdimg -n -m -bc:\windows7iso\boot\etfsboot.com c:\windows7iso c:\windows7dvd\windows7dvd.iso
Burn the new windows7dvd.iso to a DVD and boot this with the Bootcamp installer.

How to create a Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 Install USB Stick

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

Its very simple to create a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 bootable USB Stick. Microsoft provides a tool called Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool. This tool also works for Windows Server 2008 R2.

Download Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool and install it

Start the programm and choose the .iso Image (Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2)

Choose which media you want to create (USB)

Choose USB device

Begin Copying and after some minutes your USB Stick is ready to use