Server LUN being copied while making an Image

  • 7007534
  • 22-May-2012
  • 25-May-2012

Environment

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management 11.2 Imaging
Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Situation

Making an image of a Microsoft Windows 2003 server that is attached to a SAN

The network attached SAN shows up in the list of available partitions for imaging

The imaging menu (GUI) is used to make the image of the server

While making the image, an extremely large "unknown" file is shown being copied to the image

Resolution

Make the image using the Imaging Maintenance Mode Prompt

Specifically include the partitions that need to be in the image and don't include the partitions representing the SAN LUNs

Example: img -makep subdir1/myimage.zmg -i=3 -i=4

In this example, partitions 3 and 4 are the partitions that are included in the image. They are not representing LUNs.