Clone 200 hdd?

Question

Hard disks

1) There are 200 identical PCs. It is necessary to fully configure 1 PC and then make 200 hard disk copies for the rest of the machines. What is the most simple, inexpensive and at the same time effective way to do this? Now this is done by copying disk to disk via GHost, but these are constant poking of disks into the system unit, and even one at a time, each for 5 minutes ...
2) DiskTODisk is a byte-by-byte copy operation - are empty bytes also copied? If bare Windows takes up about 2GB of disk space, which is faster than DiskTODisk or deploying a pre-prepared disk image?

Answer 1

set up a PXE server with a Linux netboot, mount an nfs ball with a compressed image on a PC, and then bunzip2 -c /net/host/share/image.img | dd of=/dev/sda bs=512k

Answer 2

Can I prepare an image on a USB flash drive and then just deploy it from it?

Answer 3

I would use acronis

Answer 4

If you clone Windows, then you need to sysprep through the finished image, otherwise there may be problems with identical SIDs on the network.

Answer 5

You will need something like this

Answer 6

We put Clonezilla Server , load clients via PXE and clone.

Answer 7

Ghost can multicast to several machines at once. When I was an administrator, they simultaneously updated the image on 100 machines, it took about half an hour.