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Posts from ‘August, 2009’

Upgrading Dell Firmware as part of your ks.cfg

If you own Dell Servers and run your ESX farms on them, you’ll know what a pain in the arse it is to update the firmware. What if you could do it as part of your install script, or even deploy it in the future as a script to be run on all boxes? I’ve [...]

Unknown device… is this a bug?

We have a customer with two ESX farms – one with AMD 8354 Opterons and one with AMD 8220 Opterons. We use a manual sysprep – not the VC-integrated one, but a custom sysprep.inf file. And we found that all Windows 32-bit machines came up with Unknown device instead of the processor and we couldn’t [...]