Kickstart vs VMware cloning.

 
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Old 03-16-2011
Kickstart vs VMware cloning.

We have an environment where we are using RHEL5.5 on vmware vsphere4.0 & I would just like to know

1. What are the benefits of having a kickstart server as we can do the OS cloning with VMWare vCenter.

2. Secondly is there any thing similar to Flash archive (Solaris) for creating an image apart from clonezilla ?
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Old 03-16-2011
You can use dd and/or udpcast to replicate images into storage or across a network... There's also udpcast boot CD's available that can replicate one server across a network to a large number of receivers simultaneously.

Last edited by Corona688; 03-16-2011 at 02:25 AM..
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