topic Re: Best practice: How to “clone” a blade in BladeSystem - General

Best practice: How to “clone” a blade

HpeNewbie2023 — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 13:12:37 GMT

Dear all,

Please accept my apologies if this question is too basic (newbie here).

What we are trying to accomplish: we would like to set up on blade with OS plus custom software built by the engineering team, and then use that blade as a “template” and clone that file system/setup into 47 other blades (in a way that certain parameters are replaced properly: mainly the hostname $HOST. The ip address if fixed by each enclosure depending on the bay number.

Wondering if there is a way to create an image to be used as template or something along those lines? A configuration script is undesirable because it would create maintenance burden long term.

Environment:
Enclosures are c7000s
Blades are g9 44 cores
OS is Ubuntu 22

Would like to thank you for reading and for any ideas!

Re: Best practice: How to “clone” a blade

shiva_jr — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:31:08 GMT

Hi HpeNewbie2023,
You can use the software such as Norton Ghost to make a disk to disk cloning. These links may help you (link1 and link2).
Make sure, all the server blades must have same configuration and peripherals.
Regards,
Shiva_JR

Re: Best practice: How to “clone” a blade

Sunitha_Mod — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:39:45 GMT

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