As a person who uses both SI and xcat in our environment, I'd really encourage you to go with xcat for the blades. SI works very well for our workstations, but xcat is by far the better solution for the blades.

You can e-mail me directly if you want to discuss xcat in more detail; it's off-topic for this forum.

John Burk

Sr. Technical Director
Mainframe Entertainment

604.628.1019




Brad Fulda wrote:

Hey All,

We have in our lab 144 new IBM HS-20 Blades running RH 9. All I need to be able to do is to load a OS across the network. We have looked at Xcat, Ghost, and now this, System Imager. Xcat offers way more than we need. Ghost still requires you to use "floppies" and SI seems to be the ticket.
What I was wondering is "specifically" can SI be used for this? (it appears to ) What barriers might I come across? I want static IP's but I was reading that I needed to have a DHCP srver running. What do I need to do to allow for static IP's? Can I make a master image that is custom for each system. Meaning, I dont want to go back to each new system I just made and manually change host names, etc. Is there also a how to mini on the setup specifically for these blades we have? Any help will be very much appreciated. thanks


Brad Fulda
(256)651-4656 Cell
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