Multiple RSA's on the same site
Hey,
I have a site with over 1000 machines that I need to image relatively quickly. My WIM image is roughly 17GB.
I have a single RSA unit doing the imaging currently but alone it's not cutting it the speeds are just too slow. What I would like to do is add at least 2 more RSA units to this site and have the machines PXE boot randomly between them. Is there a way to do this? and has anyone had any experience in this before.
My initial thought was to do a DNS round robin. Have the Option 66 on my DHCP point to a DNS name that has multiple IP's on it. Any experience with this?
Thanks!
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What are the specs of your RSA, and what is your bandwidth situation like? Setting up a DNS round robin is a little too technical of a solution for this issue, in my opinion. I would champion SMal's solution of using offboard shares, if the servers that house the shares have better disk I/O than your RSA. - nheyne 9 years ago
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SMal.tmcc
9 years ago
you can also put the wim file on multiple windows shares and call it from them to speed up the process. This still works with 3.7
http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/wim-storage-freeing-up-space-on-your-k2000-if-you-are-using-wims-k2000-version-3-6
http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/wim-storage-freeing-up-space-on-your-k2000-if-you-are-using-wims-k2000-version-3-6
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Ok bear with me. I'm trying to understand exactly whats going on there. You need to create a custom KBE in order to capture your image directly to your share? You can't just copy the image KACE already made to the share? - DanGreenbrier 9 years ago
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yes you can manually copy it anyplace and remap the drive only in the kbem. I do that to save that work of copying the wim, I let the capture put it where I need it. - SMal.tmcc 9 years ago
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also lets the lower techs use the capture portion without a lot of training or file access. - SMal.tmcc 9 years ago
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Nico_K
9 years ago