PRODUCT SIMILAR TO HP'S IGNITE-UX

[Kennedy G. Doss]

Linux SAs:

I am looking at some good products for system recoveries of Linux Servers. Is there anything as good as Ignite-UX for Linux servers in the market? Please share your good and bad experiences if you have any.

Regards,
-Kennedy

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

Ignite is unique and HP has chosen not to port it to Linux. I assume this is due to the inability to recover costs. I think that is a mistake and people would pay for it. Oh well.

http://www.acronis.com
There is a license cost but acronis is pretty good. It doesn't do physical to virtual that well or IBM to HP.

http://www.mondorescue.org
Also good, but not as good as acronis. Free.

SEP

[Kennedy G. Doss]

Thanks Steve.

[Jimmy Vance]

HP SmartStart Scripting Toolkit for Linux. It's free and is a roll-your-own method. The tools configure ProLiant hardware. With creative bash scripting you can go from bare iron to running OS in an automated fashiom

http://www.hp.com/servers/sstoolkit

[dirk dierickx]

red hat has kickstart, which is normally used for automating installs, nothing stopping you from 'abusing' this for recovery purposed (expect some scripting to be done though).

otherwise, mondo is the bees knees.

[Huc_1]

Have a look at the following reply here in the forum.

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1359

Enjoy life.

Jean-Pierre Huc

[Kennedy G. Doss]

Huc:

I think you cut and pasted the wrong link. Your link talks about HP Cassette drive and I am looking for a Linux product which is comparable to Ignite-UX.

Regards,
-Kennedy

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom again Kennedy,

Kickstart is great, permitting you to replicate original install state of machines, and packages.

However after you have added a lot of configuration changes and new packages, other replication tools are needed.

SEP

[Huc_1]

Yes did cut a little short, and past wrong link, sorry about that

This should be better

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1359577

and also paste this reply to the original 1359577, kick-myself a couple of times ... will take a break.

Enjoy life.

Jean-Pierre Huc