topic capture a disk image in ProLiant Deployment and Provisioning

capture a disk image

LinuxMaster — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:15:41 GMT

I have 9 blade servers running RHEL 4 and 3 servers running RHEL 5 and i need to capture a disk image without changing on system setting on the servers.
I have been done installing ADLagent on the servers.
how can i capture a disk image?

Re: capture a disk image

Cederberg — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:13:28 GMT

By capturing a disk image you mean image the Operating system for redeployment?

Then you could use the built in job in rdp under "Server Imaging">"Capture Linux Image.." in your Deployment console.

The server needs to boot into PXE so the imaging can't run in production mode. Never tried this so i can't tell you how it works or how long it would take.

Re: capture a disk image

Steven Clementi — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:58:06 GMT

There are some default jobs for tis.

If you simply want to grab a backup of the OS on the server...

1. Copy a pre-existing job to a new job and modify the task properties to only run the imaging software. Remove any tasks related to capturing the system/array settings as you probably do not need this.

2. Confirm that the client is loaded and that the RDP server "knows" the client.

3. For the sake of "control" over the process... shutdown or reboot the server manually. While the server is "offline", run the job in the RDP console.

4. Manually force the server to PXE boot (usually F12 for boot options and/or PXE boot). This should load up a bootable pxe image and the job information should be transferred to the server, at which point... the server should execute the job and begin making and copying the image up to the RDP server.

5. After it finishes, the job should complete and the server reboots back into the local OS.

Steven

Re: capture a disk image

LinuxMaster — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:53:34 GMT

Many thanks for your attention