CipUX Feature Deploy
The first aim of this page is do gather remote deploy concepts for fat clients.
Contents
Goals
- Support of remote deploy different OS
- Linux
- Win98
- WinXP Prof
- Vista
- Image Size over 2 GB
- Auto-Reinstall-Feature
- This mean that the client gets reinstalled after _every_ logout of the user. (With CipUX 2.x this was possible win Win98 in 40 seconds) With Images sizes over 2G this must be high-performance.
- Demand-Reinstall-Feature
- This means the Admins defines a time or push a butten and all clients or a group of clients get remote reinstalled. With Images sizes over 2G this must be high-performance.
Concepts
A (rsync restore)
Synchronize the first partition of hard disk with the second partition with rsync.
Pros:
- fast
Cons
- restore OS must have the file system driver
B (Image ueber RAMDISK und ein ISO-BOOT Image):
Boot first partition from iso-file and mount second partition (ram-disk).
C (Linux Xen Client Machine with Guest OS as domU):
Linux & Win:
Win: