what quick image do?

[terry123]

hi all,

i am new to RDP, and would like to know what will be done by "Quick Disk Image"? will the array config being capture? what should i do if i only want to backup the first partition under a RAID 5 config?

if i have made a Quick Disk Image for a server, then i restore the server from the Quick Disk Image, will all array config be there?

thx a lot

[Gordon Leonard]

Look in the deployment.pdf manual for RDeploy command line switches to see how to capture a partition.

Look at the "RDP User Guide.pdf" to understand how some of the jobs work.

[Adrian Clint]

Quick Disk Image = take Image (quick simple job)

Thats it. All partitions on 1st drive. Nothing else.

If you want to capture the array you need to run the Job Read ProLiant MLDLBL System and Array Configuration and Windows Image {WinPE} in server replication and delete the two tasks to capture the system and windows system config.

[terry123]

thx Adrian,

if delete the two tasks "capture system configuration & capture array configuration", only left is the "create disk image"

but it is confused, how can i know the RAID config via RDP console? using the command "showdisk"?

[Adrian Clint]

Dont delete the capture array config.

If there isn't a separate capture windows and system config then you only need to delete one. I think I was thinking of the deploy job where there are 3 tasks. And you only need to keep the deploy array config task.

Anyway to deploy a raid 5 config to a new server you do not need to capture one.
You can just edit the deploy array task to use the file pl-acu-r5.ini which is in
\express\lib\hwconfig\array.
You can just leave it set to pl-acu-rd.ini which if it sees 2 disks will RAID1 and more than 2 disks will RAID5 automatically.

To capture only the 1st partition you have to click on the Advanced button (I think of the top of my head) in the deploy image task and add "-p1" to the command line syntax to capture only 1st partition. If you only have one partition on this physical array then you need not enter this.

You need to set the size of the deployed partition as well or it will fill the available disk! As above ... Click Advanced button on deploy image task.

[terry123]

hi Adrian,

thx a lot.

with you help, by putting -p1 -d2 parameter, i can successfully create image for the first partition of Disk two.

but when i try to restore the image with -p1 -d2 parameter, and have set the partition size. but come out it overwrite my whole disk. don't you know why?

thx