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RSI Best Practices

The following list comprises RSI best practices:

• Access the RSI Resources panel by selecting the Resources tab, right-click Data Center in the Explore tree, and select Management, RSI Resources.
• To deploy Windows images, capture the driver set and collect drivers from the vendor media using the Driver Set and Driver Collection tabs of the RSI Resources panel.

  When deploying all other operating environment images, the proper driver set is automatically captured in the image and assigned when the captured image is deployed.

  Note: For more information about capturing Windows driver sets, see the Online Help or the Reference Guide.

• Delete images and driver sets that you no longer need using the RSI Resources panel.
• For virtual systems, register hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V) with your RSI servers. Registering virtual systems with a hypervisor enables the hypervisor platform power management to handle bare metal operations requiring an initial boot.
• When working with virtual machines in a Microsoft Hyper-V/RSI environment, with any supported OS, verify the following:
  • Each VM must have at least one Legacy Network Adapter that is connected to one of the DynaCenter boot networks. Having only one Legacy Network Adapter is the best. But, if you have more than one, verify that the first one is connected to a DynaCenter boot network.
  • Hyper-V Tools do not support the legacy network adapter on the 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2003; therefore, DynaCenter does not support this operating system. For a complete list of supported OS, see the support matrix in the installation guide.
  • Each VM must have one or more paravirtualized network adapters (used by OS when it is deployed to the VM).