wednesday830-modularimaging

2. Josh KelahanChris Koerner

C Slide my name is chris, and this is my colleague Josh KelahanC Slide my name is chris, and this is my colleague Josh Kelahan

3. We come from Saint Louis University, a private jesuit university founded in 1818 in the heart of Mid-Town Saint LouisWe come from Saint Louis University, a private jesuit university founded in 1818 in the heart of Mid-Town Saint Louis

4. What’s in our soup?

We’re predominately a Windows XP shop, we do have a large (and growing) number of Mac users we’re crazy and went from AD to Zenworks We manage our XP workstations with Novell Zenworks 7 along with Symantec AV 10We’re predominately a Windows XP shop, we do have a large (and growing) number of Mac users we’re crazy and went from AD to Zenworks We manage our XP workstations with Novell Zenworks 7 along with Symantec AV 10

5. Chris Koerner

worked for ITS for 6 years, A&S, central desktop support and business school Currently web project coordinator for student development imaging, desktop/server support and now web development what we do what we usewhat we do what we use

6. Josh Kelahan

Technical Lead for classrooms & labs Chair of Enterprise Infrastructure Working Group J Slide J Slide

7. ModularImagingArchitecture

A Modular Approach forScalable PC Deployment Modular Imaging Architecture A Modular Approach for Scalable PC DeploymentModular Imaging Architecture A Modular Approach for Scalable PC Deployment

8. In the Beginning...

J Slide story about trying to squeeze everything into one image driver issues between revisions and models get it working with your existing models and when you return... another modelJ Slide story about trying to squeeze everything into one image driver issues between revisions and models get it working with your existing models and when you return... another model

9. Conventional Imaging

pain in the ass different models slow to update dangers of breaking other models ownership/responsibility issues why it’s a pain in the A$$30 different modelsslow to update - you have to pull it down on a machine, tweak and hope it doesn’t break anything else slow to keep up to date - fear updating, takes time when new machines arrive, etcdangers of breaking other stuffownership/ responsibility issues - creates a single point of failurewhy it’s a pain in the A$$30 different modelsslow to update - you have to pull it down on a machine, tweak and hope it doesn’t break anything else slow to keep up to date - fear updating, takes time when new machines arrive, etcdangers of breaking other stuffownership/ responsibility issues - creates a single point of failure

10. Visual Aid Time!

C Slide The Conventional approach is a single image you have your deployed image, which is one huge file that consists of the OS, model specific drivers, windows updates, enterprise software, the HAL and and possibly even departmental specific tweaks. You don’t have just one of these, you have many. At SLU we had at least one for each department and one for each computer type. all in various states of disarrayC Slide The Conventional approach is a single image you have your deployed image, which is one huge file that consists of the OS, model specific drivers, windows updates, enterprise software, the HAL and and possibly even departmental specific tweaks. You don’t have just one of these, you have many. At SLU we had at least one for each department and one for each computer type. all in various states of disarray

11. Mac not MAC

started with a Mac Boot Camp This whole project was started by Macs at SLU We were trying to figure out how image them using Boot Camp and realized that our existing strategy was not effective. So we had to rethink itThis whole project was started by Macs at SLU We were trying to figure out how image them using Boot Camp and realized that our existing strategy was not effective. So we had to rethink it

12. Look at Components

analyze separate structure analyze what goes inside separate out those buckets and structure them to be more flexable and consistentanalyze what goes inside separate out those buckets and structure them to be more flexable and consistent

13. Modular Structure

Base drivers windows agetns HAL optional departmental image all make up deployedBase drivers windows agetns HAL optional departmental image all make up deployed

14. Base Image

Operating System ? J Slide Base is the first image and the most important it is the sysprep ready image of a configured OS exoskelton install, configure, sysprep and create imageJ Slide Base is the first image and the most important it is the sysprep ready image of a configured OS exoskelton install, configure, sysprep and create image

15. Model Specific Drivers

One image for each Separate Ready before new models are on-site One image for each modelSeparate, doesn't effect other models in production when updatingCan be ready before new models are on-siteOne image for each modelSeparate, doesn't effect other models in production when updatingCan be ready before new models are on-site

16. Model Specific Drivers

organized folder structure injected into the OS Sysprep configured File Structure C: |_ drvr - main folder |_a_chip |_ audio |_ bluetooth |_ enet |_ modem |_ other1 |_ other2 |_ other3 |_ other4 |_ other5 |_ video |_ wireless Organized folder structureinjected into the OS model specific hot keysSysprep configured to pull during first bootOrganized folder structureinjected into the OS model specific hot keysSysprep configured to pull during first boot

17. OS Updates

organized into folder includes all KBXXXX.exe’s script to install silently during mini-setup organized into folderincludes all requried KBXXXX.exe’sscript to install silently during mini-setuporganized into folderincludes all requried KBXXXX.exe’sscript to install silently during mini-setup

18. Enterprise software

required software image is organized by each app placed on target OS during mini-setup, scripts run to install silently C Slide required agents/software for the enterpriseplaced in known location on target OSduring mini-setup, scripts run to install silentlyC Slide required agents/software for the enterpriseplaced in known location on target OSduring mini-setup, scripts run to install silently

19. HAL

What kind? Single vs multi ACPI? What kind of processorSingle vs multi (core processor)ACPI or not?What kind of processorSingle vs multi (core processor)ACPI or not?

20. Optional Add-ons

department specific minor tweaks not the best for software deployment departmental specificminor system tweaks - backgrounds, default usernot the best for software deploymentdepartmental specificminor system tweaks - backgrounds, default usernot the best for software deployment

21. The Whole #!

ISO Linux or PXE Linux Script - base, enterprise, os updates, model & hal computer is named system reboots and mini setup runs installing drivers, enterprise apps and os updates Computer restarts ready to go J Slide ISO Linux or PXE LinuxScripts start imaging process - base, enterprise, os updates, model & halcomputer is namedsystem reboots and mini setup runs installing drivers, enterprise apps and os updatesComputer restarts ready to goJ Slide ISO Linux or PXE LinuxScripts start imaging process - base, enterprise, os updates, model & halcomputer is namedsystem reboots and mini setup runs installing drivers, enterprise apps and os updatesComputer restarts ready to go

22. Contact

jkelaha1@slu.edu koernerc@slu.edu jdkc4d, ckoerner joshkelahan.comclkoerner.com E-mail Twitter Internets Google: slu eiwg

23. Questions

? What we’re talking about is an architecture that allows for great flexibility and scalability while we’re talking about xp and novell in specific we hope that the concepts of modular imaging will benefit you regardless of OSWhat we’re talking about is an architecture that allows for great flexibility and scalability while we’re talking about xp and novell in specific we hope that the concepts of modular imaging will benefit you regardless of OS

24. Sources

http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/2192192956/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/schillergarcia/2934384422/ http://flickr.com/photos/grdloizaga/817425185/ http://www.eatatjoestoday.com/doodles/wallpaper/HAL9000.jpg http://maxamus007.deviantart.com/art/Modern-Hardware-Icons-RELOADED-29634127