[THIN] Re: Citrix cloning technologies, which work the best?

  • From: "M" <mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:51:01 -0000

I gave up with Imaging servers and Ghost and used Altiris / HP Rapid Deployment 
Pack to do unattended installs
(This is in a farm of 150 servers with a number of load managed groups ). I 
also use Installation Manager to deploy our Apps (99% are MSI based) and that 
works fine so long as i dont deploy to too many servers at once.
I dont have to touch a server and everything is done by drag and drop jobs.

I found messing around with images was getting too time consuming and having to 
recreate images all the time was a major chore. With the unattended install, i 
just add/modify a few lines of text and i have an updated build. I also find i 
have less inconsistencies in the builds.

The only downside i have with unattended installs is the time it takes to go 
from bare metal to PS 4 / 4.5 + Apps + Appsense and ready to run apps for 
users. This takes around 1.5 hours for one server. However if i build 2 or more 
servers it takes the same amount of time. 

I am also looking at Ardence / Citrix Provisioning Server to see if that can 
beat the HP Rapid Deployment Pack.
The HP Rapid Deployment Pack uses Altiris Deployment server which does also 
have imaging built in.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Shane M Ryan 
  To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 9:39 PM
  Subject: [THIN] Citrix cloning technologies, which work the best?


  What are people using to clone citrix servers?  Altiris, Platespin, Raid 1 
mirror breaks, Acronis, etc.  Citrix installation manager packages I assume 
would be too slow most times.  


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