HP Dc7800 vPro Prerequisites and Trade-offs for the dc7800p Business PC with I - Page 10

Hard Drive Capacity Loss Intel vPro processor technology branded HP Compaq dc7800 Business PC configurations include an SOS partition. This partition uses 102MB of hard drive space even with no virtual appliance installed. If Intel vPro processor technology is not longer desired, the hard drive space used by the SOS partition cannot be reclaimed into the COS partition with the hard drive layout in the shipping configuration. The SOS partition is separated from the COS partition by the HP Backup and Recovery Manager partition. To reclaim the SOS partition into the COS partition, the HP Backup and Recovery Manager partition must also be reclaimed for one contiguous drive space. See "Hard Drive Layout" on page 5 for partition placement. Hard Drive Duplication There are limitations in the way you can duplicate hard drives using duplication software (for example Symantec Ghost), once a virtual appliance is installed. Because of the LVMM and the way it boots, hard drive cloning through software means is only possible for same sized hard drives. Corporate customers planning on image deployment over systems with different hard drives must be aware of this limitation. You can properly duplicate only hard drives of the same size once a VA is installed. HP Backup and Recovery Manager Behavior HP Backup and Recovery Manager is a backup and restore application designed to make backup images of the hard drive and restore them if needed. The SOS partition is not backed up or restored by HP Backup and Recovery Manager. 10