[THIN] Re: O/T - Citrix Dev, Test, Prelive > Live

  • From: Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:34:43 -0500

Altiris does a great job of managing this. It works just as well in a
virtual environment as it does a physical one.

you can set aside as many images as you want, then push them wherever.
 it straightens out machine name, domain membership etc as part of the
process.  Then from there, you can have it execute any number of
post-image steps as you want.  That can be software installation,
scripting, copying some files around etc.

The last environment I used it in, it delivered a fully installed OS
with Citrix XenApp installed.  Once Altiris pushed the image, it then
ran script jobs to join the farm, some reg tweaks, application
installs,  plus a few other things I forget.

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:04 AM, James Scanlon
<James.Scanlon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We were wondering what people out there use for replication/mirroring of
> complicated environments.
>
> We already have  DEV, TEST, PRELIVE and LIVE environments - but these are
> fast becoming difficult to manage and to restore to the original 'baseline'
> (or snapshot if you will)
>
> We would like the ability to do a complete environment refresh then return
> to baseline (including ALL technologies like AD, SQL, Exchange, Appsense,
> APP-V servers, and finally CITRIX)
>
> Its ok if the changes to the environments are manual - but we are looking
> for a way to 'automate' the setup / rollback of the environments?
> The only requirement thus far is virtual not physical. Any one got any
> ideas?
> Could the VMWare LabManager a suitable product for this? Any one had any
> experience with it?
>
> Cheers
> James
>
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