[THIN] Re: Ghost Images

  • From: "Alexander Danilychev" <teknica@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:22:22 -0700

Good point Joe.

If ghosting is involved (ghost is getting to look old-fashioned) we ghost only the first partition and work with a single logical drive. The rest is done later. Although it depends on individual preferences, Company policies and the purpose of the box, 3-4 partitions are good for me: 1st for boot/system, second for data, 3rd for page file, 4th is optional, used for install files and MSC. You can also format 4th partition with Fat32 and use it for dumping the ghost images. In most instances you will be able to recover 1st partition from the image on the 4th, however 2nd and 3rd will have to go (at least 2nd). For MetaFrame box with external data storage 2 partitions (2nd for page) will do, unless you need multiple page files due to the large amount of RAM.

PS. Is 4k sector size makes a difference these days?

ALEX



From: "Joe Shonk" <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [THIN] Re: Ghost Images
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:31:35 -0700

Why multiple logical drives? It doesn't buy anything other than to make the
ghost process more complex. 1 logical drive should suffice.




Joe



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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Seitz, Linden
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:16 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Ghost Images




Yes I have imaged multiple logical drives with Ghost 7.5 and 8 onto a RAID
array.

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Christine Easton
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 1:52 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Ghost Images

One more question, has anyone successfully imaged servers configured with
Raids?





-Christine

Christine Easton
Citrix/Windows 2000 Engineer
BMC Healthnet Plan
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Boston, MA 02210

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-----Original Message----- From: Michael Day [mailto:MDay@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:07 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Ghost Images

We use ghost to create a generic image for our Terminal Servers.  We have a
group of generic images( for each hardware type) and then use IM to install
any new apps or hotfixes since the image creation.



Michael Day
Senior Technical Analyst
Kinecor
mday@xxxxxxxxxxx




-----Original Message----- From: Christine Easton [mailto:christine.easton@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 25 August 2004 17:32 To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Ghost Images

Hello,



Just a poll. How many folks use ghost to image their Citrix boxes?  If you
have farms, do you use one image for all your boxes or image individual
servers?  Thanks!

-Christine

Christine Easton
Citrix/Windows 2000 Engineer
BMC Healthnet Plan
One Design Center Place
Boston, MA 02210

Work:  617-748-6034
Cell:  617-290-4407




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