Re: Ghosting Servers

From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:24:10 -0600

You posted this several weeks ago and I answered it then.

"Des" <d_mc_alister@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e73a6d55.0501250839.20fd039c@posting.google.com...
> main concern is that Ghost generically uses a Bootup Disk which
> assigns
> the NIC on the Server with a static IP Address in the same subnet as

No it does not. It does not have to be the same subnet,...it isn't even
relavant.

> the designated Ghost Server so that you can Dump an Image to this
> server. If this is the case then surely this would change the already
> statically assigned IP Address of the Servers

No, it does not. You're running in DOS, the OS is not running, you aren't
changing anything anywhere.

> Now I have been assured by various responses to this that my concerns
> were unfounded as Ghost assigns IP at DOS level and will not affect
> Windows assignment. Also Ghost neither "sees" or even "cares" what
> hardware is running underneath it most of the time so RAID will not have
any
> adverse affects on the process.

That was me. :-)

> My only remaining concern is about the issue of the SAN (Storage Area
> Network). On each of our servers we have assigned a SAN Volume where
> the bulk of our Network Resources are located. If we ghost an image of
> this server then I know this data wont be included (dont care as it is
> backed up) but how will the link to this SAN Resource be affected.
> Will the Luns require reconfiguring.

Not relevant. Means nothing.

Ghost just runs in DOS, in RAM, from a floppy,...finds the HD Partitions and
duplicates/compresses them into an image file that is saved in a specified
location. It is no more complicated than that. 

-- 
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

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