Hard Disk not found after Deployment
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@vanopy FWIW, I have 2 VMs I used to create our golden image. One is configured as bios and the other is configured as uefi. We use MDT to create 2 exact images (one bios and one uefi) of each. MDT is used to create a repeatable (every time) golden image. Then we capture each of these golden images and then deploy the appropriate captured image to the respective hardware. I can so though lately we are deploying more uefi images and less bios based images based on the target system demographics.
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@george1421 Did you also do this in VMWare?
If so, how did you do the install in VMWare, to make sure the disk was in UEFI?
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@vanopy Are you using ESXi or Workstation as your hypervisor?
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@george1421 ESXi
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@vanopy Its here (in 6.5 vSphere)
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@george1421 Yes, I saw those settings, but strange enough it seems that I don’t see all these options in the VM options.
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@vanopy It sounds like you don’t have vCenter but are using the web ui right on esxi? Let me see from that UI.
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@vanopy Its there under the esxi web ui too.
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@george1421 I’m using the vSphere Client, and it’s not there for me unfortunately:…
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@vanopy Oh so you are using the C# (retired) application or is it the (retired) flash based management? If its the C# application I can understand why its not working.
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@george1421 The flash based… Just tried to login directly on the client and now I see the option…
Was always used to work this way and didn’t even realize I was lacking quite some options by doing so.
Seems that it was an ID10T error, sorry about that
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@vanopy If you have vCenter the flash based ui that part of that is close to the standalone C# vsphere application. But that too is being retired. You will need to get use to the html5 web ui sooner or later. I finally gave up about a year ago and started using the vCenter html5 web ui even though the flash based ui was nicer to use.
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@george1421 May I ask for your assistance one more time please?
I believe I have everything ready, but now I would need to know how to get my UEFI VM to PXE boot.
I’ve tried the boot option EFI Network, but it just sits as this screen and nothing happens:
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@vanopy So the next question is have you ever pxe booted a uefi machine in your environment? If not then you need to change dhcp option 67 to ipxe.efi. And/or setup the dynamic pxe boot options on your dhcp server.
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@george1421 Yes, several times. Never a VM though… dhcp option 67 is already ipxe.efi
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@vanopy This is interesting since it just works for me on esxi
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@george1421 It’s like this:
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@vanopy So just for grins if you switch it back to bios mode it pxe boots correctly?
Also I noticed you only have 1 uefi filter. There are two (three) types you should define. 006 007 and 009.
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@george1421 Yes, I’ve done it earlier today in BIOS mode and that worked fine.
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@vanopy If you only define to you need efi-64 and efi-bc to cover all of your x64 bases.