OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

[Stephen]

check out clonezilla that combined with drbl can do what you are thinking about.

clonezilla.org

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Ben Browning <benb at bensbrowning.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm poking around looking for a solid system imaging solution for
> automated deployment/installation of new servers in a wide variety of
> datacenters across links of varying speeds and costs. I'm looking for
> something I can use on Linuxes, FreeBSD, and Windows, as well as
> something for physical and virtual machines. I'd like if it could
> split off XPE/DHCP functions, image-serving functions, and
> administrative interface among different servers. Especially if I can
> cache the images on HTTP proxies. Also, a decent API is kind of
> important too :) I used to use Systemimager
> (http://www.systemimager.org/), but it seems to have stagnated a bit
> and doesn't support Windows and Freesd (though I imagine it could be
> hacked to do so, for freebsd anyway) as well as having many other
> failings with my (admittedly broad) requirements.
>
> The closest thing I have found so far is Fog
> (http://www.fogproject.org/) . It looks moderately robust, but I
> thought I'd ask around and see if anyone else has found other
> solutions. I've also looked a bit at LinMin (http://www.linmin.com/),
> but licensing costs $unknown_amount and FreeBSD support is "under
> consideration". FastDeploy (http://www.fastdeploy.com) doesn't seem to
> support FreeBSD, and has a single dev.
>
> Anyone have other options for me to poke at?
>
> ~Ben
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