DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux)
DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux) adalah free software, solusi open source untuk me-manage implementasi system operasi linux di banyak client. Bayangkan menginstall linux di 40, 30, atau 10 client satu per satu! DRBL memungkinkan mengkonfigurasi semua client komputer dengan cara menginstalasi dari satu server saja.
DRBL memungkinkan lingkungan diskless atau sistemless untuk mesin client. DRBL dapat bekerja di Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS dan SuSE. DRBL menggunakan sumber daya hardware yang terdistribusi dan memungkinkan client untuk mengakses secara penuh hardware lokal. DRBL termasuk clonezilla, aplikasi untuk partisi dan disk cloning yang mirip dengan Symantec Ghost®.
Fitur dari DRBL:
* Peacefully coexists with other OS * Simply install DRBL on a single server and all your clients are taken care of * Save on hardware, budget, and maintenance fees
Peacefully coexists with other OS
DRBL uses PXE/etherboot, NFS, and NIS to provide services to client machines so that it is not necessary to install GNU/Linux on the client hard drives individually. Once the server is ready to be a DRBL server, the client machines can boot via PXE/etherboot (diskless). "DRBL" does NOT touch the client hard drives, therefore, other operating systems (e.g. MS Windows) installed on the client machines will be unaffected. This could be useful in, for example, during a phased deployment of GNU/Linux where users still want to have the option of booting to Windows and running some applications only available on MS windows. DRBL allows great flexibility in the deployment of GNU/Linux.
Simply install DRBL on a single server and all your clients are taken care of
Using a standard PC, you can transform a group of client PCs into a working GNU/Linux network in some steps:
* Download the DRBL package * Run the scripts
In about 30 minutes, all the client machines will be ready to run GNU/Linux and all associated packages. No more deploying client machines one by one. Just use DRBL!
Save on hardware, budget, and maintenance fees
Hard drives are optional for a DRBL client. Actually, the hard drive is just another moving part that creates more noise and is susceptible to failure. If a hard drive is present, the client can be configured to use it as swap space while GNU/Linux is installed and configured on the centralized boot server. A lot of time can be saved by configuring the client settings at the boot server when using the DRBL centralized boot environment. This gives the system administrator more control over what software configurations are running on each client.