HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Build Plans Reference Guide

 HP felt it was easier to create or extend custom partitions this way versus inside the unattend XML format.

 An error from diskpart may be more intuitive than trying to troubleshoot a partitioning error in setup.exe and

will happen earlier in the build plan.

 The HP-provided OSBPs use this temporary partition to store the extracted driver files. This helps prevent

running out of disk space on the WinPE RAM drive (X:).

You can modify the HP default partitioning schemes using one of the following methods:

 Option #1 – Change the HP provided script to meet your needs

Make a copy of the Partition Disk for Windows script and modify it to create the additional partitions using the

diskpart command. With this method, all the partitioning is still done within the script.

 Option #2 – Remove the HP partitioning script and do partitioning in the unattend file

Modify an HP-provided Windows OSBP

1. Remove the Partition Disk for Windows script step from the Windows OSBP.

2. Add the boot disk partitioning to the Windows unattend file following the instructions provided by

Microsoft. Also, modify the <DriverPaths> section to use X:\$oem$. The latter is necessary since

the C: partition will no longer be available with the removal of Partition Disk for Windows step.

3. Remove the HP-provided unattend file from the Windows OSBP and replace with the new unattend

file that contains the disk partitioning.

4. Update the ProLiant Drivers for Windows XXX OSBP step to use X:\$oem$ as the directory path

parameter. This is necessary since C: partition will no longer be available with the removal of the

Partition Disk for Windows step.

NOTE: The X: (WinPE) drive is a RAM disk that only exists in memory. It is possible that the combined size

of the drivers may be too large to fit in the available RAM disk space. If this occurs, please consider using

Option #1 above.

Type: OGFS

Parameters: None

Optional Custom Attributes:

 SystemDrive

 SystemDiskNumber

Prepare Disks on HP ProLiant Gen8

Prepares disks of an HP ProLiant Gen8 target server and sets the target device custom attribute, SystemDiskDevice.

The embedded flash drives on ProLiant Gen8 and newer servers are sometimes seen by the operating system installers

and are possibly used for the hard drive by the installers. This script attempts to hide those embedded flash drives from

the operating system installer, and also sets a custom attribute to indicate to the installer, exactly which drive to install.

This script is required for Windows operating system deployments on ProLiant Gen8 and newer servers, since these

flash drives are displayed when the target server is booted to the Intelligent Provisioning WinPE service OS. Although

not required, this script can be used on ProLiant G6 and G7 servers without consequence.

Type: OGFS

Parameters: None

Custom Attributes: SystemDiskDevice

Prepare Windows for Image Capture

This script prepares a running Windows installation (Windows 2008 and newer) from a Managed server to be captured

using the Sysprep tool.

For more information about the Sysprep tool, refer to the following articles:

 http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc766514