Using Microsoft ImageX with the SSTK to Capture and Deploy Windows Server Images on HP Integrity Servers

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Using Microsoft ImageX with the SSTK to

Capture and Deploy Windows Server

2008 Images on HP Integrity Servers

Technical white paper

Table of contents

Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 2

Executing the image capture action ....................................................................................................... 2

Deploying images to the BL8x0 i2 server blades and rx2800 i2 servers..................................................... 4

Executing the image deploy action ........................................................................................................ 4

For more information............................................................................................................................ 5

Send comments to HP........................................................................................................................... 5

Summary of content (5 pages)

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Using Microsoft ImageX with the SSTK to Capture and Deploy Windows Server 2008 Images on HP Integrity Servers Technical white paper Table of contents Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 2 Executing the image capture action .......................................................................................................
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Introduction This white paper enables capturing and deploying Windows Server 2008 Images using the Microsoft ImageX utility. It applies to SSTK 4.1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, and Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based systems. Executing the image capture action To execute the image capture action, follow these steps: 1. Copy the ImageX IA64 utility from the C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\ia64 directory to the utilities directory under the SSTK repository tree. 2.
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3 Use WSIM to insert an encrypted password, or change the PlainText value to true and insert a plain text password.
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Deploying images to the BL8x0 i2 server blades and rx2800 i2 servers If you previously captured a Windows Server 2008 R2 image installed with a previous version of SSTK or by some other method, enter the following commands at the command prompt in the SSTK repository root folder to prepare to deploy images to BL860c i2, BL870c i2, and BL890c i2 server blades and rx2800 i2 servers: mkdir mnt dism /mount-wim /wimfile=images\windows\2008-server-r2\win2008.
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