Yeah, we don't have any issue with images made on the business class range of stuff you mentioned. However, for true DR orientated solution I do feel you need to have something that can work on more than a 'small range' of IO controllers. You need something that will install on that duff old workstation that the director has sat in his home-office; if the office burns down that may be all you have at short notice until your replacement order turns up a few days later.
-----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2008 18:57 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware Would a sanitized sysprep.inf help? (no product code, domain, password to join domain, etc) http://www.optimumdata.net/phil/sysprep.inf Testing it is nice and all, but if you consider that most business class (Dell OptiPlex or the equivalent Lenovo or HP) and "professional-class" (Dell Precision or similar) desktops use a very, very small combination of storage controllers I don't think you have much to worry about - once it works on a Dell OptiPlex configured for AHCI and non-AHCI SATA, it'll work on almost anything with an Intel SATA chipset. I can use (and have used!) the exact same image on Dell, HP and Lenovo desktops and only have to worry about the audio drivers. Oliver Marshall wrote: > If you get an answer to this I'd love to know. > > We can get around it by installing the drivers for a standard IO card > (say an adaptec scsi/sas and an adaptec sata raid controller) before > doing the DR images. However, that assumes that we a) have the > replacement raid card handy come the restoration time and also that we > don't need to restore to some other hardware. > > Being able to restore to something totally dissimilar would be great. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
