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Provisioning - manual and/or automated OS deployments to physical and virtual machines.

OS Provisioning is at the base of the System Administrative task list: creating standard server builds that can be repeated either via following manual processes or implementing solutions such as kickstart, jumpstart, unattend, ignite, autoyast, NIM or WDS.

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Configure HP RAID in Pre-OS environment

I need to set the RAID configurations of a HP machine during the provisioning process of OS deployment. I have come across a tool named Praid.exe but having read the documentation I get the impression it is only usable on IBM RAID…
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Remotely Installing Windows 2008 on SunBlade 6000/6250... any gotchas?

I'm preparing to remotely install Windows 2008 Standard onto a 6250 blade module mounted in a SunBlade 6000 chassis rack. Are there any gotchas (aside from the predictable issues related to bandwidth in transferring the ISO, etc.) for this? Has…
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User provisioning script for Exchange and AD?

I'm currently running Exchange 2007 and Windows Server 2003 ADs. If I wanted to create a user creation/deletion script that would create and delete users, what would be the best way of dealing with this? Powershell from the Exchange server? Some…
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With ESXi and Windows Server 2008, can the provisioned size for a disk be reduced?

When we first setup ESXi, we over allocated drive space (allocated 300 GBs of a 250GB hard drive) thinking ESXi would shuffle things intelligently like it does with memory and CPU but found out later it doesn't work that way. We were told there was…
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Breaking a RAID 1 as a way to Provision systems?

Suppose that I have a nix system whose filesystems are entirely supported by two drives in a RAID 1. If I were to breakdown that RAID, could I then use one of the disks to recreate the system on separate hardware? Does anybody use such a scheme as a…
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What is VPS provisioning?

I'm starting to get my feet wet in the VPS world, so I have some newbie questions for you gurus. The first is this (as title): what is VPS provisioning? When you do it and what it's useful for? Thanks!
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What is the best way to apply your old settings / environment to new server

Let's say you have your favorite settings with zsh, vim, screen, etc., behaving the way you want on some boxes. What is the best way to apply these settings / environments to a new server? Assuming all the necessary software is installed on the same…
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Question about VMWare thin provisioning

I'm playing around with virtual disks and thin provisioning and have a question about it. I've created several disks and allocated space to with thin provisioning. Is it possible to allocate more disk space than the maximum amount of the datastore…
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Deployment/provisioning tool for commercial applications (not developed in-house)

I help manage a few hosted commercial applications, and we have a lot of manual processes involved when doing new customer-instance deployments into the shared (multitenant) environment. Allow me to describe the most relevant features, and then we…
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How to use Windows Configuration Designer to set desktop wallpaper

I'm using Windows Configuration Designer to provision new company laptops, the documentation is vague on how to properly set the Personalization settings to set the wallpaper. I have my jpg file, I've set the path to it locally under the…
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Windows 10: how to restrict settings available to user through provisioning package?

With Windows Configuration Designer I've created a provisioning package with only one application and the settings available to a user "Test". This is a "multi-app kiosk". There is another user "Admin" which has access to all applications. With the…
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Error provisioning server with ansible

I have another frustrating dilemma and it would be wonderful to have another pair of eyes on this (really any but mine..). I have built a wordpress site using sage/bedrock/trellis, and I was just about ready to push it to a brand new staging server,…
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Notify an ansible server to run a playbook on a VM

I have a virtual machine set up with Vagrant. The plan is to provision the vm with a shell script. The Script shall do things, connect to my company's ansible server and let the server run a playbook with the hostlist set to the vm. Now the problem…
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Yealink T46S fails to apply non-MAC specific configs while provisioning

I am deploying some 50 of SIP-T46S phones, and got stuck with really weird behavior. According to Yealink manuals, "new" provisioning process is getting .boot file and applying configs in order specified in there. I decided to go this…
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Using Terraform for every region in a given account, find all VPCs and for each VPC enable flow logs

In Terraform how to populate the list of VPC IDs into the map. I want to find all VPCs for every region in a given account and for each VPC enable flow logs.How this can be done using Terraform
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