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

From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:33:02 -0700

 

We have gravitated toward a hybrid of ghost/altiris for the base OS and
scripted install of apps and PS, but each project is a little different and
we do many variations. The main point backing what M said below that cloning
a complete server seems to have diminishing returns, especially when it is
so easy to auto-install PS and not have to hack identities and deal with per
servers configurations..

 

 

Steve Greenberg

Thin Client Computing

34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453

Scottsdale, AZ 85262

(602) 432-8649

www.thinclient.net

steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of M
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 5:51 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix cloning technologies, which work the best?

 

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 <mailto:shanemryan@xxxxxxxxx>  

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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