Hello, I am looking for any pointers on where I might find some commercial software to replace the homebrew udpcast based system I wrote for my employer several years back.
In our environment we have hundreds of physical x86 systems that get reimaged very frequently (between once a week and once a day, in groups of 15 or more at a time). Up until recently the homebrew system was sufficient. A couple hundred lines of shell to set up pxe config files, poke the iLO (out of band management ) of the servers, tell them to network boot, shove an image down their throat... Image servers are *nix, image recipients by and large are Windows 2003 Server or newer. The problem right now is the system originally was designed for ~20G boot partitions and the remainder of the target disk was blank. Now we are shoving entire 146G or larger datasets down the wire. We are not able to leverage the multicast ability of udpcast at this time for various reasons. I might yet take a look at that, but in parallel... I am here, asking... What do you use? Note: I'm not looking for a virtualization hamburger helper, we have that angle well under control. The need for physical system reimaging is the pain point. We won't be able to virtualize these physical systems for all sorts of good reasons. Any and all suggestions welcome. Trever _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
