2 and more discs include ssd

[mlebeda]

Hello,
any news about support two disks (with or without SSD)? Tried OPSI 4.0.5 and saw windows PE sorts disks really strange. If you want i can test and send disks orders and their results. In mi opinion problem is that PXE linux + netboot sorts disks in different way than Windows PE - resulted unattend xml points to wrong disc (tested on Windows 7 x64 4.0.5-4).

And one idea for adding new functionality to Windows netboot - option for not initialised discs in computer to create and format partition all over the disc in case 2 and more discs in PC? For example SSD and two discs - firstly create partitions for install windows normal way on SSD and after that initialize rest two disks and quick format them to NTFS.

Btw i want thank for new stable OPSI 4.0.5 and new added possibility adding drivers by vendor/model of mainboard manufacturer (it was great idea).


Regards
Martin

[n.wenselowski]

Hello Martin,

Hello,
any news about support two disks (with or without SSD)? Tried OPSI 4.0.5 and saw windows PE sorts disks really strange. If you want i can test and send disks orders and their results. In mi opinion problem is that PXE linux + netboot sorts disks in different way than Windows PE - resulted unattend xml points to wrong disc (tested on Windows 7 x64 4.0.5-4).

You are totally right that the problem here is the different approach to disk sorting. Unfortunately it's not so easy to find a proper solution. Looking at our bugtracker this has been delayed to after the next release.

And one idea for adding new functionality to Windows netboot - option for not initialised discs in computer to create and format partition all over the disc in case 2 and more discs in PC? For example SSD and two discs - firstly create partitions for install windows normal way on SSD and after that initialize rest two disks and quick format them to NTFS.

Great idea, something like that is already in our bugtracker. We are planning to provide more advanced ways of formatting but it is unclear when this part will be done and how it will find it's way into the Windows netboot products.


Have a nice day!

~Niko

[mlebeda]

Thank you for fast reply. I am curious how you handle this problem. Maybe run binary with start Windows PE, which will sort discs like OPSI does before startnet. Then will be no problem with order...

In fact, if you want we have created netboot, which is able to remove all partiton on all discs. It removes GPT identification too.

Regards
Martin

Hello Martin,

Hello,
any news about support two disks (with or without SSD)? Tried OPSI 4.0.5 and saw windows PE sorts disks really strange. If you want i can test and send disks orders and their results. In mi opinion problem is that PXE linux + netboot sorts disks in different way than Windows PE - resulted unattend xml points to wrong disc (tested on Windows 7 x64 4.0.5-4).

You are totally right that the problem here is the different approach to disk sorting. Unfortunately it's not so easy to find a proper solution. Looking at our bugtracker this has been delayed to after the next release.

And one idea for adding new functionality to Windows netboot - option for not initialised discs in computer to create and format partition all over the disc in case 2 and more discs in PC? For example SSD and two discs - firstly create partitions for install windows normal way on SSD and after that initialize rest two disks and quick format them to NTFS.

Great idea, something like that is already in our bugtracker. We are planning to provide more advanced ways of formatting but it is unclear when this part will be done and how it will find it's way into the Windows netboot products.


Have a nice day!

~Niko

[d.oertel]

Hi,

the feature for the windows netboot products to have a product property 'prefer ssd' on multiple disks,
is scheduled for post opsi 4.0.6 (which means perhaps in the middle of the year).
The problem is not only to select the correct disk in the setup.py . You also have to hide all windows usable partitions on the second disk to avoid problems while windows installation and 'unhide' it later.
So this is a little bit complicated and need a lot of testing in different configurations.

If you need this feature earlier you may use money to make the priority higher for this feature ...

regards

d.oertel

[mlebeda]

Thank you for info. This information is sufficient to me. I will wait till version 4.0.6.

Regards
Martin

Hi,

the feature for the windows netboot products to have a product property 'prefer ssd' on multiple disks,
is scheduled for post opsi 4.0.6 (which means perhaps in the middle of the year).
The problem is not only to select the correct disk in the setup.py . You also have to hide all windows usable partitions on the second disk to avoid problems while windows installation and 'unhide' it later.
So this is a little bit complicated and need a lot of testing in different configurations.

If you need this feature earlier you may use money to make the priority higher for this feature ...

regards

d.oertel