Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-05-02 Thread Mamatec S.r.l
Hi All.I prefer JET which is very good once you got the how it works...but I did quite a bit of Installion and it's great. Also you can use N1 Provisioning Server which is a kind of JET but graphical and much more!! Mamatec On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29,

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-30 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Ben Rockwood wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the responses... but JET is Jumpstart.  I'm > looking to expand into a platform independent imaging system that isn't > just a net boot wrapper around the installer. > > The problem is that we're currently having to deal

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:13:05AM +0100, Tim Bradshaw wrote: >I'm not sure what the Windows people do, though as it looks like we'll >shortly have a large number of Windows instances on VMs it will be >interesting to see. RIS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Installatio

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-30 Thread Tim Bradshaw
On 30 Apr 2009, at 00:50, Ben Rockwood wrote: oes anyone know how mega-shops like Google do installs? I'd assume they'd pre-image root disks and add them during assembly line setup. I imagine they do something completely bespoke like you say. One important thing however is that they probab

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
Brian Gupta wrote: > Ben, > > For truly OS agnostic installs you are probably looking at disk > cloning software. Here is a list of some popular ones: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_cloning_software > There aren't as many out there as I assumed... i had hoped that list was incomplet

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-29 Thread Brian Gupta
Ben, For truly OS agnostic installs you are probably looking at disk cloning software. Here is a list of some popular ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_cloning_software BTW - Ubuntu does support network install. Cheers, Brian On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Ben Rockwood wrote: >

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-29 Thread Octave Orgeron
@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* - Original Message From: Ben Rockwood To: Michael Ramchand Cc: sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:34:28 AM Subject: Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives Thanks t

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-29 Thread Tim Bradshaw
On 29 Apr 2009, at 08:34, Ben Rockwood wrote: Thanks to everyone for the responses... but JET is Jumpstart. I'm looking to expand into a platform independent imaging system that isn't just a net boot wrapper around the installer. I'm working somewhere where we have plenty (hundreds of inst

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
Thanks to everyone for the responses... but JET is Jumpstart. I'm looking to expand into a platform independent imaging system that isn't just a net boot wrapper around the installer. The problem is that we're currently having to deal with in the data center is that most shops depend on both Jump

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Ramchand
I don't know what I'd do without JET. :-) The "official" documentation/product pages are here: http://wikis.sun.com/display/JET Mike Christine Tran wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Octave Orgeron wrote: I use JET. Likewise. Jumpstart + Solaris DHCP is awful but JET makes a

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-28 Thread Christine Tran
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Octave Orgeron wrote: > > I use JET. Likewise. Jumpstart + Solaris DHCP is awful but JET makes all that go away. It supports building zones as well. We use it to turn around large number of servers and I cannot imagine doing it without JET. I'm surprised JET is

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-28 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-04-28 15:30:31, Bryan Allen wrote: | | Some guys are working on adding Solaris support to Cobbler[1], which could also | be interesting (especially if you use puppet as well, as I do). Oops. [1] http://cob

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-28 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-04-28 12:24:35, Octave Orgeron wrote: | | I use JET. Works with x86/sparc and does bootp, wanboot, and pxeboot for Solaris. You can do flash archive and traditional network installs. Also supports Linux. It

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-28 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ben Rockwood wrote: > Has anyone found a good alternative to Jumpstart for fast network bare-metal > provisioning? > > I've had my eye on openQRM for some time, but its recent 4.x releases seem to > have reverted to Linux only status.  Other network imaging solut

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-28 Thread Octave Orgeron
@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* - Original Message From: Ben Rockwood To: sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:31:33 PM Subject: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives Has anyone found a good alternative to Jumpstart for fast ne

[sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives

2009-04-28 Thread Ben Rockwood
Has anyone found a good alternative to Jumpstart for fast network bare-metal provisioning? I've had my eye on openQRM for some time, but its recent 4.x releases seem to have reverted to Linux only status. Other network imaging solutions out there make me nervous. xVM Ops Center looks like i