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Jenniffer Trotter
I am new to CloneZilla BUT I have already in love with it.
our company asked me to provide an image PXE server for all our Bare metal and VM's - so it will be reliable and work with the existing setup that we currently have.
While searching for the solution I cam across this wonderful tool CloneZilla server - that I felt right away this is the solution I need to implement no matter what. It will be the RIGHT solution for the task and I will reject all other solution by showing that it can do what they are asking and EVEN more!
I have started learning the drbl solution and tested it using the CloneZilla Live. I was able to create images on our NFS server without any issues at all. I am now 100% convinced that this is the solution I should work with and I want to make that happened.
I have already installed Ubuntu-18 (we use only Ubuntu servers right now) and added the repo for the free drbl and installed the server. at this point I have also configured the server using drblsrv -i
I am not sure what exactly I was up to set since the questions were not as clear as I expected them to be, But following couple of tutorials online I have almost accepted all defaults and got the Done! and the end.
I have setup /tftpboot/nbi_img
I have also read on several PXE installation online and I saw that I can use dnsmaq for the DHCP proxy and TFTP server, Not sure that is exactly what It is for - But most of the online tutorials mentioned that I need to install this as well as the folloing:
Do I need also to install the pxelinux and syslinux?
when I ran dnsmasq I get an error that that is because I already have a DNS server that was provided to me by the local router since I use DHCP.
By default DRBL uses ISC dhcpd and tftpd to run the PXE booting server. It's possible you can configure dnsmasq to make that, but for the moment there is no such option when running "drblpush -i".
You can try Clonezilla lite server, maybe it also meet your need:
-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/11_lite_server
It provides an option to use the existing dhcpd:
-live/doc/11_lite_server/images/ocs-06-4-auto-detect-dhcpd.png
Maybe this would be easier?
"Done that and it works OK with VM." -> So have you compare the configuration file /etc/dnsmasq.conf in Clonezilla lite server and yours?
In addition, you'd better to check the syslog about the error messages? To see what the issue is.
Chuck,
It's not a addition to clonezilla but a setting used by upd sender, all you need to do is add the specific setting ans test away. I have used this particular setting and saw a massive speed increase, but a fairly large failure rate also in comparison to not using it.
Maybe tweaking the percentage may create a happy medium eventually, but we shall see. I don't think its a setting for clonezilla to add out of the box IMO.
Is there a way to enable jumbo frame support (9000 MTU) for using clonezilla server edition? Here is what I am doing, I have a cart for each of my sites that has a Gig ethernet switch, and all my machines are gig ethernet. When I clone them we take them off of the production network and wire it up to the cart and send out the image. We are attempting to get as much performance out of this as possible, so we need to know if it is possible with some tweaks on our end to make the follow:
Server 9000 MTU on the nic
and through the client boot on PXE to set the nic to 9000 MTU? The switches are Cisco, so we can set them to support jumbo frames. I am continuing to do research but a bit of help would go a long way. Thanks!
Actually, I think I have the process down. I'll do a bit of a writeup when I finish testing it in my test environment on what I had to do to make it work, if it works any better. I'm currently doing it through Ubuntu 12.04.
So far, I can set it on the server using that command and in the dhcpd.conf I can set option 26 up (option interface-mtu 9000) so that the end machines will be 9000 end to end. I'll be testing it tomorrow for thoroughness. I might even throw a machine with wireshark to monitor.
Okay, so here is the update:
I have the MTU set up on the server Ethernet at 4078 due to the max supported showing as that using the standard e1000e driver. I have set the /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf with option interface-mtu 4078 and still the clients are not getting the 4078. I have also set the switch level mtu to be a global 4078.
When the DHCP ACK packet comes through, it doesn't have the MTU option showing, but it shows all of the other options. I am running out of ideas here. Any ideas as to why the udhcpd client that is in use in the clonezilla software doesn't see it or request it? I'll post some configs for evaluation in a few minutes. Thanks!
Okay, I am out of ideas. How can I hardcode an MTU in to the client so that it will always use a larger MTU size? I am literally pulling my hair out right now trying to figure it out and my mind is burning. I've given it my everything but it seems to be that either the clonezilla client ignores the setting or never sees it. I've been reading manual after manual trying to figure it out and I'm thinking I might be even more lost now than I was before. Help?
Is that with bzip2?
My images might be small but i'm rolling out a huge nomber so each second won makes a huge difference.
my current setup for MAX performance is as follows:
image server: win2008r2 with a 5.5GB RAMDRIVE w/image and bootfile
Broadcom dual port GbE NIC in LACP team, w/jumbo frames
PC boot from PXE completely unattended to restore image to HDD and reboot
Using latest stable x64 2.0.1-15-amd64 (i've yet to see if there's difference with ubuntu image)
In your case a ramdrive would require a large server, your best bet would be to use a big NAS like nas4free with ZFS with as much ram as you can as ZFS cache, and as many NICs as you can, with NFS that has less overhead.
As I have 15 more PCs to clone I tried the server edition. Booting from live CD and configuration works fine, client booting from PXE works and as it comes to partclone, the process seems to start but nothing happens...
No error message on server or client side is shown.
Clonezilla live 2.7.0-9 works fine.
I started the CloneZilla lite server and tried to clone 1 client. Server is still running, client boots from PXE and says: "switching to amdgpudrmfb from VESA VGA"
How come even unicast failed there... This is very weird...
I can not find why unicast failed there. Maybe you can find some clues in the log files under the dir /var/log/, like clonezilla.org and partclone.log.
A note: I notice when I use Clonezilla (non-server version) it's much more forgiving. Both to capture and/or deploy an image. When I use the server version I often get MBR/GPT mismatch errors. This is the first time I'm seeing this error. Are you able to build Clonezilla to prompt the user for which version they wish to use and have the application make the necessary changes?
When I use the server version I often get MBR/GPT mismatch errors. This is the first time I'm seeing this error. Are you able to build Clonezilla to prompt the user for which version they wish to use and have the application make the necessary changes?
''' This job is started by clonezilla server and the source disk name is different from target disk name!
To restore the image to differnet disk names it not supported in this case! ..... ""
It means, for example, the disk was saved from /dev/sda, and you want to restore it to /dev/sdb. Because in Clonezilla SE mode, basically it's unattended mode. Hence you have to convert the image first. Please use this command to conver it:
=cnvt-ocs-dev&t=To%20change%20the%20device%20name%20in%20saved%20clonezilla%20image
That guide above makes it all look easy but when I tried setting up Clonezilla Server Edition on my laptop (Kubuntu 10.10) and configured the master computer for PXE boot, the master computer could not see the Clonezilla server. It just shows 'DHCP...' which seems it trying to grab an IP address but to no avail.
Trouble shooting is par for the course. At this point, start with the laptop. Can you get that laptop to connect to the internet? Configure this laptop with all static network configurations. Static IP, Subnet, Gateway. Make sure you can get this thing on the network. Connect the laptop into a switch, plug one computer that you want to clone into that switch and set it to boot via PXE. If you know the linux laptop can connect to the network and you know that the other computer can PXE boot, and you've got them on their own switch where no other DHCP server or firewall can interfere, then you move on to troubleshooting your clonezilla DHCP setup. The easiest way that Clonezilla can be set to configure its server is to do the default values settings with: sudo /opt/drbl/sbin/drbl4imp
If you can't ever seem to get the chosen computer to PXE boot and talk to the clonezilla server, can you get some OTHER brand of computer with a DIFFERENT brand of network card to connect to the clonezilla server?
Just troubleshoot piece by by piece, Can I get the clonezilla server on the network? Put the computers on an independent switch with no other devices to eliminate switch and port blocking issues, then can I find one machine that is known to be able to PXE boot? Get a clear clean path of communication from server to switch to host computer. Are those cables good? Go back and reset the clonezilla server if needed. You CAN get it to work.
I am able to save and deploy an image with clonezilla live, but when I try and deploy the same image over a small LAN I have set up, the progress bar freezes randomly on the last partition clone (which is of courser the large chunk).
I am starting to think this is a problem within my network. Are there any config settings a switch might have that would cause it to produce this kind of problem within clonezilla server? I am using an adtran switch with default settings.
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