IBV and Windows 2012 R2 fail boot
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 6:34 am
Hi StartWind Community,
We're testing StarWind iSCSI to deploy all our server with diskless.
We find some problem with IBV disk for boot Windows 2012 R2.
All test in CentOS 6.5 are fine, with .img and .ibv disk. Install and running servers during test without problems.
Well , now we're trying to do the same with Windows 2012 servers, we boot fine with img disk via iSCSI boot.
But if we try to boot from IBV disk "grow disk" it always fine.
Our setup:
MS DHCP + iPXE
Windows 2012 R2 with StarWind
One .img captured with CloneDisk. LWF filters disabled in all network adapters to allow iSCSI boot.
This setup boot fine, but the problem is that img files are not "growing disk" they're fixed.
Hardware : SuperMicro Microcloud , E3-1220v2 , 16 GB RAM, 1 ETH connected to iSCSI VLAN.
Setup IBV:
The same setup except , disk was converted to IBV with Starwind .
Method to convert :
Create a IBV from a current img disk.
Them create a full clone IBV from a disk.
That generate us a 12,5 GB disk ( Same storage used as img ). Now we assigned that IBV to server for boot.
Windows Starboot but it says innaccesible device.
Well, we also tried to install directly to IBV , but Windows 2012 on mandatory install reboot enable LWF that prevent to boot from iSCSI. That the reason why we capture first a physical installation for get a "golden" image.
Any ideas?
Thanks
We're testing StarWind iSCSI to deploy all our server with diskless.
We find some problem with IBV disk for boot Windows 2012 R2.
All test in CentOS 6.5 are fine, with .img and .ibv disk. Install and running servers during test without problems.
Well , now we're trying to do the same with Windows 2012 servers, we boot fine with img disk via iSCSI boot.
But if we try to boot from IBV disk "grow disk" it always fine.
Our setup:
MS DHCP + iPXE
Windows 2012 R2 with StarWind
One .img captured with CloneDisk. LWF filters disabled in all network adapters to allow iSCSI boot.
This setup boot fine, but the problem is that img files are not "growing disk" they're fixed.
Hardware : SuperMicro Microcloud , E3-1220v2 , 16 GB RAM, 1 ETH connected to iSCSI VLAN.
Setup IBV:
The same setup except , disk was converted to IBV with Starwind .
Method to convert :
Create a IBV from a current img disk.
Them create a full clone IBV from a disk.
That generate us a 12,5 GB disk ( Same storage used as img ). Now we assigned that IBV to server for boot.
Windows Starboot but it says innaccesible device.
Well, we also tried to install directly to IBV , but Windows 2012 on mandatory install reboot enable LWF that prevent to boot from iSCSI. That the reason why we capture first a physical installation for get a "golden" image.
Any ideas?
Thanks