On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote: > > On 22 January 2015 at 13:22, Darren Williams <D.Williams2 at bradford.ac.uk> > wrote: >> >> >> The idea of using a VHD(X) was to enable use to use disk imaging tools >> such as ghost, wds etc to deploy images of this type of system to over 500 >> machines. >> >> We have not found an imaging solutions that can image and deploy via >> multicast a system set up in the standard way you describe. > > > I haven't tried it but I thought clonezilla SE could do this? Yes, the clonezilla server with drbl can multicast - or manage several concurrent clone operations even without multicasting. However, it does require all the hardware to be pretty close to identical with the target disk the same size or larger than the master. You might be better off with cobbler or something similar to PXE boot into an automated install instead of loading a prebuilt image. It is easy enough to test clonezilla, though - just boot a clonezilla-live iso and save/restore to some existing network share or over ssh. If you like the results, then set up the multicasting server. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com