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• 1 Projects Hosted at systemimager.org
• 2 Thank You
• 3 Download SystemImager
  • 3.1 Official release
    • 3.1.1 SVN repository
    • 3.1.2 Unofficial pre-releases
• 4 Documentation
• 5 Support
  • 5.1 Mailing Lists
  • 5.2 News
  • 5.3 Bug tracker
  • 5.4 IRC
  • 5.5 Web
• 6 Benchmarks
• 7 External links
  • 7.1 Articles
  • 7.2 Books
  • 7.3 Papers
  • 7.4 Presentations
  • 7.5 See also

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SystemImager is software which automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment.

SystemImager makes it easy to do automated installs (clones), software distribution, content or data distribution, configuration changes, and operating system updates to your network of Linux machines. You can even update from one Linux release version to another!

It can also be used to ensure safe production deployments. By saving your current production image before updating to your new production image, you have a highly reliable contingency mechanism. If the new production environment is found to be flawed, simply roll-back to the last production image with a simple update command!

Some typical environments include: Internet server farms, database server farms, high performance clusters, computer labs, and corporate desktop environments.

Projects Hosted at systemimager.org

• SystemImager
• SystemInstaller
• System Configurator
• System State Manager
• (relocated)

Thank You Jeff Johnson Thanks to Jeff Johnson (jeff dot johnson at aeoncomputing dot com) for providing server hardware for this site! The University of Chicago Thanks to The University of Chicago and the for providing network and facilities. Download SystemImager Official release

• Latest Unstable Release:

Release date: Mar 24, 2008

• Latest Stable Release:

Release date: Dec 8, 2007

SVN repository

• Follow instructions here.

Unofficial pre-releases

• Andrea Righi's repository (_arighi release)
• Bernard Li's repository (_bli release)

Don't forget to register your cluster on the map!

Documentation

• See the Documentation Page

Note Work is under way to add ext4 and grub2 support to SystemImager. Support Mailing Lists

• - User mailing list () ()
• [e-mail] - Developers mailing list (web archive) ()
• [e-mail] - SVN commits (do not send email directly) (web archive) (subscribe)

News

Read the latest news .

Bug tracker

We're using Trac for bug tracking. Submit bugs here.

IRC

(freenode.net, #sisuite) Web

• SourceForge project page

Benchmarks

• Installing more than 1000 nodes in 15min with SystemImager

External links Articles

• Step by step tutorial on HowtoForge: How To Back Up An Ubuntu 8.10 System With SystemImager
• Article on linux.com:
• HowTo sur Capweb.biz : Créer des images de votre système Linux avec SystemImager (FR)
• (article on Grid Today quoting SystemImager as a core component used in the famous virtual world )
• (how to integrate SystemImager with Xen to create a totally open source deployment framework of virtual machines)

Books

• High Performance Computing Clusters with Intel® Architecture, Part 2

Papers

• - Sean Dague

Presentations

• - Sean Dague
• - Andrea Righi, Brian Elliott Finley, Erich Focht
  • Get paper and presentation of the talk in PDF

See also

• • The IBM BCX/5120 cluster in CINECA uses SystemImager
• • Wiki about SystemImager used for the NIFLHEIM cluster installation

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