Verify Bios Mode/Boot Environment Mode in Windows 2008

Typical way is to run msinfo32 and from the start menu but most of the time the information was not there.

Here is the other way round.

1. Check this file : C:\Windows\Panther\setupact.log


2.Launch Control panel - Administrative tools - Computer management
Check Disk management tab. You should have EFI Encrypted partition (around 100mb). Also, when you right-click your HDD, on the Volumes tab you should see GPT partitioning, (not legacy MBR).

The GPT is part of UEFI package

Add Persistent Route on Windows Server

Login to Windows as administrator or you will get below error when executing the route add command:

The requested operation requires elevation.

Route add command:

C:\> route -p add 10.10.10.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 metric 1

This writes the persistent route to the following Windows Registry key as a string value (REG_SZ):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\PersistentRoutes

How to find World Wide Name (WWN) for a fibre channel HBA on Windows Server

How to find World Wide Name (WWN) for a fibre channel HBA

You can uses one of the following ways to view WWNs:

* HBAnyware utility (Emulex HBA only)

* SANsurfer utility (Qlogic HBA only)

* SAN switch’s name server output

If none of the above mentioned tools are accessible you can try Fibre Channel Information Tool utility FCINFO.EXE available for download from Microsoft Download web site. It works on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows 2000 systems and comes in a form of MSI package for x86, IA64 or x64 platforms. However, as stated in the Release Notes the Fibre Channel Information Tool does not have to be installed to work correctly. Three core files must be copied in a common folder if the Fibre Channel Information Tool is not installed using the MSI installer: FCINFO.EXE, HBAAPI.DLL, HBATAPI.DLL.

Fibre Channel Information Tool utility is also included in the Microsoft Product Support Reporting Tool and other vendors' reporting tools, such as EMC Grab Utilities (EMCReports), Hewlett Packard Services Reporting Tool (HPS Reports), etc. If you ever run one of those tools on your server, you would have FCINFO.EXE installed.

Running the Fibre Channel Information Tool at a command line with no arguments will give basic information (including WWN) about the installed host bus adapters (HBAs):

C:\>fcinfo

There are 2 adapters:

com.qlogic-QLA2300/2310-0: PortWWN: 21:00:00:e0:8b:08:95:df \\.\Scsi2:

com.emulex-LP9002-1: PortWWN: 10:00:00:00:c9:30:d0:17 \\.\Scsi3:

If you type FCINFO /? or FCINFO /?? you will get a long list of commands, many of which are very task specific and not necessary for information gathering. 

Source: WINTELGUY