I'm the process of upgrading to Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, but I'd like to do it on a cleanly installed server. I'd also like to create an image of the server for quick recovery or standing up additional servers in the future. I'm running a Dell PowerEdge 1850, RAID 1 firmware version 521S (driver 6.46.2.32), Windows 2003 Server Standard SP1. I've installed, configured, and patched the OS appropriately, then went to create a base image using Ghost 8.2 (Ghost Solution Suite 1.0), but it errors out each time it looks for the source drive. Instead of seeing the partitioned space on the RAID, it sees the RAW total available space.
The error I get is "An internal inconsistency has been detected." It then rights some error information to a log file and craps out from there. The information in the log file seems useless, but I could be wrong. I can post it if someone wants to see it.
Now, it seems to me that Ghost is seeing the RAID, otherwise it wouldn't show me an accurate indication of the available RAW space. Of course, because it doesn't see any partitioned space, it craps out.
I've searched around quite a bit, and the closest thing I can find to a resolution doesn't work. A TID from Symantec suggests running the Ghost.exe with the following switches, -ws- -wd-, but it doesn't resolve the problem.
I've blown out the RAID and reconfigured it using the boot disk and the built in RAID utility. I've even experimented with partitioning the entire RAID, in full, and in sections. I have 5 of these servers, and it is doing on the two that I've attempted to configure. Mysteriously, a third server, which had already been configured a year ago works fine. I can create and load images to it successfully. Comparitively, all 5 servers are identical, so it baffles me as to why one will work, and the rest will not.
One more thing, I've created a Bart PE CD with the appropriate RAID and NIC drivers, but it still errors in Ghost, just as it did using a bootable floppy.
Does anyone have any helpful ideas on this one?