Taking An Image Of A Device And Storing It In A Remote Repository - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - PREBOOT SERVICES AND IMAGING REFERENCE 10.3 16-04-2010 User Manual

2 In the Image File Path field, specify or click Browse to browse for and select the path where
you want to store the Windows Imaging Format (
files.
3 In the Include Partitions field, select the partition of the disk whose image you want to take. Do
not select the drive where you want to save the
By default, the Include Partitions field displays all the partitions of the device on which the
Novell ZENworks Third-Party Imaging utility is launched. Additionally, the drives are
displayed for Windows partitions.
NOTE: The drives displayed might not correlate with the original drives of the device. You
must manually ensure that the correct drive is selected.
4 Select one of the following compression options:
None: No compression is applied.
Speed: Optimizes the compression to allow for the fastest imaging time. Use this option if
CPU speed is an issue. By default, this option is selected.
Size: Optimizes the compression to minimize the image file's size to conserve disk space.
This might cause Imaging to take considerable amount of time.
5 Click OK.
If the images are taken in the Ghost format, ZENworks 10 Configuration Management additionally
creates an XML file with the filename as
image file. You must not edit the xml file. If you are taking an image of a device that has multiple
disks, an image file is created for each disk and only one XML file is created per image.
If you want to move a Ghost image to a different location, you must move all the image files and the
XML file specific to the image.
D.4.3 Taking an Image of a Device and Storing it in a Remote
Repository
The Novell ZENworks Third Party Imaging utility allows you to take an image of an existing device
and store it in a remote image repository on a shared-network path. The image can be used to image
a similar device or reimage the same device.
To take an image of an existing device and store it in a remote image repository on a shared-network
path:
1 Click the Imaging menu > Take Image > Server.
The Take Image window is displayed.
) or the Ghost imaging format (
.wim
or
.wim .gho
image_name-ghost.xml
.gho
file.
in the same location as the
Third-Party Imaging 171
)