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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 enviroment 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
- Wifi-Radar (recently moved)
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 Computation Institute for providing network and facilities.
Download SystemImager
Official release
- Latest Unstable Release: SystemImager 4.1.6
Release date: Mar 24, 2008
- Latest Stable Release: SystemImager 4.0.2
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
- sisuite-users@lists.sf.net - User mailing list (web archive) (subscribe)
- sisuite-devel@lists.sf.net - Developers mailing list (web archive) (subscribe)
- systemimager-commits@lists.sf.net - SVN commits (do not send email directly) (web archive) (subscribe)
News
Read the latest news here.
Bug tracker
We're using Trac for bug tracking. Submit bugs here.
IRC
- (freenode.net, #sisuite)
Web
Benchmarks
External links
Articles
- Step by step tutorial on HowtoForge: How To Back Up An Ubuntu 8.10 System With SystemImager
- Article on linux.com: Automate Linux installation and recovery with SystemImager
- HowTo sur Capweb.biz : Créer des images de votre système Linux avec SystemImager (FR)
- Clustering Is Not Rocket Science
- Avatars and Grid 2.0 (article on Grid Today quoting SystemImager as a core component used in the famous virtual world Second Life)
- Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment (how to integrate SystemImager with Xen to create a totally open source deployment framework of virtual machines)
Books
- The Linux Enterprise Cluster
- High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, OpenMosix, and MPI
- Linux Clustering: Building and Maintaining Linux Clusters
- Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Instruction Parallelism to Cluster Computing
- High Performance Computing Clusters with Intel® Architecture, Part 2
Papers
Presentations
- SystemImager @ Ottawa Linux Symposium 2002 - Sean Dague
- SystemImager @ LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin - Andrea Righi, Brian Elliott Finley, Erich Focht
- Get paper and presentation of the talk in PDF
See also
- SystemImager at CINECA (PDF)
- The IBM BCX/5120 cluster in CINECA uses SystemImager
- SystemImager at niflheim
- Wiki about SystemImager used for the NIFLHEIM cluster installation
