Deploying More Than 100 Workstations - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual

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Drawbacks
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2.3 Deploying More than 100
Most of the considerations brought up for medium installation scenarios in
"Deploying up to 10 Workstations"
However, with a growing number of installation targets, the benefits of a fully automated
installation method outweigh its disadvantages.
It pays off to invest a considerable amount of time to create a sophisticated rule and
class framework in AutoYaST to match the requirements of a huge deployment site.
Not having to touch each target separately can save you a tremendous amount of time
depending on the scope of your installation project.
As an alternative, and if user settings should be done during the first bootup, create
preload images with kiwi and firstboot. Deploying such images could even be done by
a PXE boot server specialized for this task. For more details, see
(page 181),
Customized Preinstallations
16 Deployment Guide
Local or remote through SSH or VNC
Complex rule setup
Section 18.2, "Rule-Based Autoinstallation"
Workstations
Chapter 18, Automated Installation
(page 197).
• Varying hardware
• Cross-site deployments
(page 7) still hold true for large scale deployments.
(page 211), and
(page 223)
Section 2.1,
Chapter 14, KIWI
Chapter 17, Deploying