{"id":1864,"date":"2018-11-02T14:33:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2018-11-02T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:02:30","slug":"having-fun-with-starwind-virtual-san-free-and-differencing-virtual-disks-article-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"Having fun with StarWind Virtual SAN Free and differencing virtual disks : article #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

See previous article <\/a>to understand why and what.<\/p>\n

In this article, we will see how to create our master \/ parent VHD and how to install windows onto this disk.<\/p>\n

To manipulate virtual hard disks on the command line, i use vmount<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Create parent vhd
\nvmount createdynamic e:\\_images\\iscsi.vhd 102400<\/strong>
\nAttach vhd as physical disk without a drive letter
\nvmount attach e:\\_images\\iscsi.vhd NOLETTER<\/strong>
\nCheck it out
\nvmount disks<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At this stage, we have a new \\\\.\\physicaldriveX on your host which we can use within our iscsi target (using Starwind San Free<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Last step, lets boot our diskless computer to install windows.
\nTo do this, I will use TinyPXE <\/a>Server and iPxe.
\nI also use QuickPE <\/a>to customize my winpe (but default ms waik or adk will do as well).<\/p>\n

First boot : we will attach our iscsi disk then boot our WinPE from where we will launch windows setup (over a network share)<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n #!ipxe
\n #dhcp net0
\n clear net0.dhcp\/gateway:ipv4
\n set keep-san 1
\n sanhook iscsi:${next-server}:tcp:3260:0:iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:erwan-pc2-master
\n set boot-url http:\/\/${dhcp-server}
\n echo ${platform}_${buildarch}
\n kernel ${boot-url}\/wimboot
\n iseq ${platform} pcbios && initrd -n bootmgr.exe ${boot-url}\/BOOTMGR.EXE bootmgr.exe ||
\n iseq ${platform} efi && initrd -n bootmgfw.efi ${boot-url}\/bootmgfw.EFI bootmgfw.efi ||
\n iseq ${platform} pcbios && initrd -n bcd ${boot-url}\/BOOT\/BCD bcd ||
\n iseq ${platform} efi && initrd -n bcd ${boot-url}\/EFI\/MICROSOFT\/BOOT\/BCD bcd ||
\n initrd ${boot-url}\/BOOT\/BOOT.SDI BOOT.SDI
\n iseq ${platform} pcbios && initrd -n boot.wim ${boot-url}\/SOURCES\/x86\/BOOT.WIM BOOT.WIM ||
\n iseq ${platform} efi && initrd -n boot.wim ${boot-url}\/SOURCES\/x64\/BOOT.WIM BOOT.WIM ||
\n boot
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Second boot : lets boot to complete the windows installation<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n#!ipxe
\n#dhcp
\nclear net0.dhcp\/gateway:ipv4
\nset initiator-iqn iqn.2006-11.1
\nset keep-san 1
\nsanboot --keep iscsi:${next-server}:tcp:3260:0:iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:erwan-pc2-master
\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See previous article to understand why and what. In this article, we will see how to create our master \/ parent VHD and how to install windows onto this disk. To manipulate virtual hard disks on the command line, i use vmount. Create parent vhd vmount createdynamic e:\\_images\\iscsi.vhd 102400 Attach vhd as physical disk without […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10,28,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boot","category-iscsi","category-tinypxe-server","category-winpe","category-16-id","category-10-id","category-28-id","category-21-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}