[THIN] Re: OT: Imaging Dell Servers
- From: Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:05:24 -0500
Imaging by defination is high overhead. Why not build a scripted install?
That way you could even use it with servers of different brands, etc with
minimal changes and you've given yourself much more flexibility over the
long haul and no dedicated hardware needed especially for changes in the
future.
Jeff Pitsch
On 1/16/06, Luchette, Jon <JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have worked primarily with HP servers in the past, so with Dell servers
> (850's and 1850's) I am in need of a little help. I am trying to figure out
> the best way to go about designing an imaging strategy for Dell servers
> without a lot of overhead. Ideally what I want to do is to build a source
> server, configure it with security settings and policies, install a few
> little add-on applications and capture an image from it. I would like to
> then be able to then easily take that image file and deploy it to any new
> servers of the same model. The environment is small so if I had to
> even burn that image file onto a bootable cd, and then boot all new servers
> from that cd to deploy the image, that would work just fine. I don't want
> to have a dedicated imaging server unless I absolutely have to because it is
> such a small environment. But I guess if there was no other way, I could
> boot servers up with network boot disks specific to their NICs and pull down
> the images from the imaging server that way. I just don't know how
> licensing for the imaging application would work in this type of design, I
> don't want to have to buy a license for every server that I image. If I
> could get away with only having one or two licenses than that would work
> out.
>
> Anybody have any recommendations for me? Does anybody know of a free util
> that I could use to accomplish this?
> I have looked at Dell's Deployment ToolKit v2.0 but I think this is not
> really for imaging a server but more for a Pre-OS environment.
>
> Thanks Guys,
>
> /jL
>
>
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