[THIN] Re: OT: Imaging Dell Servers
- From: "Luchette, Jon" <JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:49:16 -0500
Jeff, If all my servers are going to be running Server 2003, does using ADS
make sense? Thanks!
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jeff Pitsch
Sent: Mon 1/16/2006 6:05 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Imaging Dell Servers
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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