Entries by Remko Weijnen

Extremely slow Virtual Machines on HP Smart Array P410

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I was deploying virtualized Citrix XenApp Servers on HP BL460c G6 servers and somehow the storage (direct attached) responded very slowly. I had expected reduced performance (see my earlier post) since I didn’t have the  Battery Backed Write Cache module installed. I did order them but had to start deployment before they arrived. I did […]

Apply IP Configuration from a Database

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I am currently deploying 64 Citrix XenApp servers with Altiris. The deployment consists of an OS Image, OS Configuration and finally Citrix XenApp and Applications. In the OS Configuration part the IP configuration needs to be applied and I decided to do this with a database. The database consists of 2 tables; one table with […]

HP Smart Array controller previous lockup code 0xAB

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I ran into an error when I was upgrading hardware on an HP BL460c G6 Blade. After placing 2 new (larger) hard drives the Array Configuration would hang after saving the configuration (It just kept blinking “Saving Configuration…” forever. After a reset the Smart Array Controller (P410i) halted a very long time on Initializing and […]

Installing Python and PyWBEM

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I am working with Ingmar Verheij on a SCOM management pack for HP EVA. This management pack will query real-time data using SMIS-S and it requires the Python scripting language and the PyWBEM library. In this post I will describe how to install Python and PyWBEM. First we need to install Python, I took the […]

Get Virtual Machine Bios Serial Number

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I am using a PowerCLI script to clone virtual machines from a template and after the clone I need to add the new virtual machines to Altiris for further processing (deploying OS, Citrix XenApp and Applications in my case). In Altiris I have universal jobs that identify what configuration is applicable, eg a Virtual Machine […]

Search XML Files

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In a  VB Script I am writing I needed to read an XML file and read a GUID from it. The XML file looks like this (there’s more data in it, I am just displaying a small piece so you can see the structure): 7af322bd-9c0c-4edb-a55d-97f4b240abf2 DesktopSiloEven fa341079-5376-4baa-8898-1048421506df 12a072bb-9338-418a-9be1-e0e9c8ed2780 77d73762-745d-49f3-8cb3-6b7fedaf70a2 3f5b59a9-1989-43b7-9354-871841aa65a8 37bdf4a7-1ca6-a7eb-0d4e-ec3e964c73bd 550f45d9-4b22-430d-b972-06671f4da7cb DesktopSiloUneven fa341079-5376-4baa-8898-1048421506df 12a072bb-9338-418a-9be1-e0e9c8ed2780 […]

VBScript function to create a guid

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The function below can be used to create a GUID in VBSCRIPT: Function CreateGuid Set TypeLib = CreateObject(“Scriptlet.TypeLib”) CreateGuid = TypeLib.Guid Set TypeLib = Nothing End Function Remko WeijnenWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.

Tips for using SysPrep with Altiris

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Altiris has built in support for Sysprep when creating or distributing images. The documentation doesn’t mention some things that are worth knowing so I will try to address them in this post. Sysprep support can be added to Altiris during the install where it will ask you for the Sysprep install files (deploy.cab) per selected […]

Compiling Drivers for Altiris Linux PXE Image Part 2

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In the previous part we have already setup the Ubuntu Virtual Machine and we did a build of the kernel image. So now we can finally compile the driver, in my case I needed a driver for VMWare’s VMXNET3 Network Card. VMXNET3 is VMWare’s paravirtualized network driver and offers better performance with less host processing […]

Compiling Drivers for Altiris Linux PXE Image Part 1

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First we need to setup a Linux Virtual Machine with a distro of choice (I recommend a 32 bit version). I will be using Ubuntu here and the first step is to download the iso. At the time of writing Ubuntu 10.10 was the Latest version so I used that one. Create a new Virtual […]