Trying to use OSD to deploy to bare metal Dell and HP servers. Some servers have 4 drives for which we create a pair of RAID 1 arrays. Some servers have 2 drives for which we create a single RAID 1 array. For the single RAID, we want to carve 70GB out for the C: drive and the rest for D: drive. For the 2 RAID1 systems, the first RAID is C: drive and the second is D: Simple stuff. I have been trying to use WMI queries to get this logic going but I keep running into inconsistencies between models and vendors. For example, for a Dell 2970 if I create 2 RAID arrays and look through WBEMTEST I will see 2 physical drives under win32_diskdrive. If I do the same for a Dell r815 with 2 RAID arrays, it reports back 4 physical drives. I tried using where win32_diskdrive mediat type = fixed hard disk media, but when I do a wbemtest on my test 2970, those values are all null. I can't find anything that is consistent across the board to use to specify whether or not I have a single RAID array or 2 RAID arrays. Can anyone assist?

why not use the Dell Deployment Pack v. 1.2, you can integrate it with SCCM and it allows you to create a custom bare metal server deployment which has many steps which are geared towards doing exaclty what you are trying to figure out, HP have a similar tool, not sure what it's called, cheers niall My step by step SCCM Guides I'm on Twitter > ncbrady

Has anyone else done this without the Dell or HP tools added on? There has to be some generic WMI query that can be run.

Or can someone tell me what the HP equivalent tool for this might be called?