"if the office burns down that may be all you have at short notice until your replacement order turns up a few days later."
Na, we have 100 workstations at a DR center on contract. We need 15 minutes lead time. -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 3:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware 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/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
