On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Trever Miller wrote: > 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.
what are the limits that you are running into (network bandwidth, server load, packet loss, other??) David Lang _______________________________________________ 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/
