A question about recovery from golden image

[Wang,MinJie]

Hi all
I've made a golden image the oe of which is 11.11 with HWE and GoldenQPK patches on it from an L1000 system with one 9 GB hard disk on it
Now I have a question:
Can I use this golden image to install other system even work station?
Will there be any side effect?
Thx in advance

[Ludovic Derlyn]

hi,

You can specify in ignite, advanced option that you restore an different hardware platform, but idon't say if it's recommended for a workstation.

for example , i have restored an SD partion on one L 3000, it's ok.

Regards

L-DERLYN

[Mridul Shrivastava]

Yes the Golden image can be used to install other system but workstation won't be supported.
Moreover if it is PA server then restore will work on Pa server and if it is Integrity then it will work on Integrity servers only.

[Mridul Shrivastava]

In addition to supporting the standard software installations from an SD depot, Ignite-UX supports installing from known-good local system images, called golden images. This method recognizes that many, if not all, clients in a network may be identical (or almost identical) to each other. It is possible to take advantage of this fact by building an image that contains all of the files including configuration files that you want installed on each of the clients, and then using Ignite-UX to install them.

This approach can have several advantages:

Because the compressed system image is unpacked directly to disk over the network, the installation process can be much faster than an equivalent process using SD. The time savings depends on the size of the installation and the capacity of the network, but a typical golden image can be extracted in about 20 minutes compared to about an hour for an SD install.

Instead of troubleshooting a client, it is often more cost-effective to completely reinstall the operating system with a known-good system image.

When coupled with dataless nodes (all volatile data is on a separate file server), system replacement time or move time is drastically reduced.

Once a golden image has been created, it is simple to apply it to multiple clients. Very little or no user interaction is required during subsequent installs, reducing the chance of error.

Building this golden image is done by setting up a single system the way that you want all of your systems to look, and then creating an image of that system. Follow instructions in this chapter to set up the first system.

For more information please have a look of the following doc:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90970/ch05.html