...so few months ago I was wondering which vendor to pick that has the best global delivery experience and deliver quality product..
after few weeks of research decided to go with Dell.
There are few options for centralized management such as pushing images, backing up, restoring/re-installing servers for Dell servers using DRAC cards.
KACE which recently was bought by dell is one option, Dell OpenManage seems another option with less options available.
What are your thoughts / suggestions on centralized management solutions for Dell servers with DRAC cards?.
Few things to keep in mind.
Centralized solution and server wont be on the same network , but each will have internet access
Drac cards come with Compact Flash cards
Bandwidth may not be quite fast and latency might be higher when connecting to the centralized solution.
Monitoring can be apart from the server maintenance solution as I already primarily use cacti/nagios/IMapper.
appreciate help on this.
Mehmet
You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like
systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3].
PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5]
is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/pt-install-advanced-deployment.html
[2] http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/
[3] http://www.bacula.org/en/
[4] https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/
[5] http://theforeman.org/
Sorry for top post, posting from bb.
Spacewalk is the open source upstream of redhat satellite. Can be used
for installation/provisioning and config management. Ties in well with
puppet and func.
You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like
systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3].
PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5]
is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts.
Any options that also handle Windows Server?
Matt Kelly (mjkelly) writes:
>>You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like
>>systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3].
>>PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5]
>>is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts.
Any options that also handle Windows Server?
A FreeBSD boot CD ?
Joke aside, it seems that Puppet already has support for it, contrary
to the FAQ:
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#does-puppet-run-on-windows
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetWindows
Foreman seems to be built on Puppet, as I understand.
PXE is well supported:
Walkthrough: Deploy an Image by using PXE | Microsoft Learn
... and to finish off, Bacula works like a charm on windows, including
registry backups, provided you create the system image backup and schedule
it.