goldn image archive- usage

[gany59]

Hello Folks,
Is golden image is the collection of OS and data, application, database installed on one server. once we taken the ignite backup, we cab able to install to any machines with the same architecture right ?. Then what is the need for golden image and what is it meant by? How to create the golden image archive.

Please help me on the same.

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

Useful info about:
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01942571/c01942571.pdf

Rgds.

[Shane Seymour]

A recovery archive contains the personality of the system it was created from. A golden image has most of the personality of a system stripped from it making it more generic.

One really important difference is that a golden image does not contain a kernel. Because of that a new kernel gets created when installing a golden image. This does not happen by default with a recovery archive since it does contain a kernel.

That's why for a recovery archive there's configuration that detects if a different system is being used and sets some variables to indicate to Ignite that a new kernel needs to be created. That's why recovery archives also provide the cloning to different H/W question on the additional button on the basic tab.

You are likely to run into some issues if you try to use a recovery archive as a golden image.

To create a golden image look at the make_sys_image manual page - a golden image is create with -l 2 instead of -l 1.