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Operating System Imaging and Deployment. One More Week. Cody Burns Anthony Luu Joel Groeneveld. Agenda. What is OS Deployment? Benefit of OS Deployment OS Deployment Tools LANDesk® Management Suite LANDesk® Management Suite Pros/Cons How did we use it? Project Costs Real World Costs

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One More Week

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  1. Operating System Imaging and Deployment One More Week Cody Burns Anthony Luu Joel Groeneveld

  2. Agenda • What is OS Deployment? • Benefit of OS Deployment • OS Deployment Tools • LANDesk® Management Suite • LANDesk® Management Suite Pros/Cons • How did we use it? • Project Costs • Real World Costs • Issues • Next Step • Acknowledgments

  3. Hardware Independent Imaging What is it? How is it used? Deploy to any OEM hardware Detects the model number Pulls drivers based on the model number • The creation/deployment of an operating system prepared for multiple installations in a corporate setting • A hard drive image

  4. Benefits of OS Deployment • Time Saved by the IT department • Versatility • Customizable • Many tools are available

  5. OS Imaging/Deployment Tools • Norton Ghost ™ • Windows® RIS • Altiris ™ • Altrinsic Solutions ™ • LANDesk® Management Suite

  6. LANDesk®Management Suite What is it? Why did we use it? Free 45 day trial Employed a lot of what SAIT has taught us Enabled us to “think outside the box” in terms of troubleshooting • Allow Administrators to: • Manage company assets • Manage inventory • Monitor Software • Manage the deployment of patches • Deploy OS images over a network • OS provisioning

  7. LANDesk®® Management Suite (2) Benefits Challenges Cost Setup Complexity Product documentation Support • Saves time • Versatile • Centralized Management • Support

  8. Project Components Server Virtual Machines Windows Server 2008 ™ LANDesk® Core 2x Windows Server 2003 ™ R2 SQL server Active Directory Windows XP ™ SP3 PXE boot server • Dual Xeon Quad-core CPU’s with Hyper Threading • 16 Logical cores • 12 GB DDR3 RAM • 4 drive RAID array in RAID 1+0 giving 1 TB of usable space

  9. Costs • Hardware= $3365.07 for server hardware • Software • LANDesk® Management Suite V9 = $100/node (min. 10 nodes) • Windows Server 2003 ™ • $999 (5CALs) • Windows Server 2008 ™ • $1,029 (5 CALs) • Windows XP™ VLK (no longer available) • Windows 7™ VLK (price varies)

  10. Project Challenges • Hardware delivery • RAID • Windows Vista™ Image • Network design issue

  11. Before

  12. After

  13. What We Learned • Very Useful • Saves Administrators a lot of time • Training/Experience is recommended

  14. Acknowledgements • Jason Fisher, Instructor • Colin Chamberlain, Instructor • Tim Williams, Instructor • Jim Catley, Academic Chair • Dale Johnson, service desk technical lead of Compton Petroleum Corp. • Jamie Scales, Student • Our friends and family

  15. Acknowledgements (2) • LANDesk® • Microsoft® • Intel®

  16. Website • www.Proj354.com • Follow the links to E3 One More Week

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