Deploying More Than 100 Workstations - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 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.
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Local or remote through SSH or VNC
Complex rule setup
Section 5.2, "Rule-Based Autoinstallation"
Workstations
• Varying hardware
• Cross-site deployments
(page 7) still hold true for large scale deployments.
(page 89)
Section 2.1,