UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All - Newbie here so please bear with me
I work in a lab looking after HP and AIX systems. At the moment 2 of each. I will be constantly tearing these down and putting on different OS versions as the need requires by our Customers for testing.
Question is - Is it possible to have Ghost OS images lets say on an Intel Server that I could boot from. I.e taking my pick of OS version.
If possible then great - Could some Guru here guide me through the process.
and taking into account my knowledge on Unix on HP and AIX is basic
If not possible then i apolagise for the time wasting

It's possible with GRUB or LILO in a PC Linux environment, but the disks you boot from have to be locally available to the bios.

But it's an interesting really idea. HPUX versions have hardware requirements, so I don't know how you'd get around that - ie v11i might not run on that old v10 box.

What versions are you shifting to/from?

Thinking about it again - how do you handle different filesystems?

For example, you would have to do a cold swap of all the data disks(s).

The Ghosting server would be static so am i right in saying that so will the hardware paths in regards to the HP systems.
Hp will be more or less 11.11 and 11.23
Aix will be the 5 series since its not EOSL as of yet.

What i was thinking (and knowing me, this is dangerous) if I could point the system to boot from FTP

And to note - for every install I will have to cretae my own filesystems from scratch anyway as the requirments would change per Customer

IgniteUX would work for the HP side of the environment. You can boot and image across a network with ease. I have done the same with redhat, AIX no clue.
Aaron