Stefan Jagger

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The Ultimate Deployment Appliance will help you deploy your servers or workstations. The goal of the project is to be able to fully deploy a computer by booting to PXE and choosing the prepared operating system template. Of course this is already possible, but as I discovered, it takes a lot of time to setup a service like this. This appliance will do it for you. Windows, Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse), Solaris X86 and VMWare ESX 2.x.x and 3.x.x are supported.

Connect your laptop to an uninstalled system with a network cross-cable, boot the server up with PXE and choose the operating system template you have prepared on your laptop. This appliance is geared towards totally unattended installations, so after choosing the template you can sit back and relax.

The appliance will mount the ISO files of your operating system install CD/DVD’s and import only a very small subset of the files required for PXE booting other clients. Installation files and packages are served by the appliance right from the ISO images (samba/nfs/http).