I had an instructive lesson last night, somewhat unfortunately. I had to 
do a DR recovery of a VMware VM; OS was Win 2008 R2, and NW version 7.6.2. 
I used the bootable Win2008 recovery image that I downloaded from EMC. 
That went well .. except for the fact that the image only had E1000 NIC 
drivers, and I was recovering the VM  from a point before we standardized 
on using the virtual E1000 NIC (we standardized for other reasons, 
specifically that our Kaspersky AV liked the E1000 NIC, and not the VMware 
NIC). So the resulting image didn't have the NIC it had when the backup 
was made; it only had the E1000 NIC that the recovery gave it. I was able 
to get around the problem (the old NIC was marked as "missing hardware", 
and therefore hidden; MS has a utility to remove missing and hidden 
devices from Windows. You run that, and it goes away. Then you can 
configure the E1000 NIC - which the DR recovery created - with the IP 
addressing scheme you need).

And then the trust relationship failed, and I had to remove it from the 
domain and re-join. Still not sure why that happened; the SID should have 
stayed the same ...

Anyway, this (finally) got me thinking .. I need to add NIC drivers to 
that NW recovery image. I have to add old VMware NICs, for situations like 
this; I have to add the HP NICs we use in our physical Win2008 boxes, etc.

And I don't know how to do that, or where to get the drivers, and in a 
form that the image requires.

Anyone know how to do this, and where to get NIC drivers? A link to a 
HOWTO or - better yet - a step-by-step would be ideal.

Thanks
-- 
Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel:  215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>