Lenovo Secure Managed Client - Manual (Page 7)

Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. Overview . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2. General setup . . . . . . . 3
Networking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Installing and configuring LANDesk . . . . . . 3
Provisioning the storage array . . . . . . . . 3
Building a base image . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Creating user images . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Selecting the type of image you wish to use . . . 3
Chapter 3. Networking considerations . . 5
Infrastructure requirements . . . . . . . . . 5
Diskless client architecture . . . . . . . . . . 6
Active Directory considerations . . . . . . . . 6
iSCSI boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Link aggregation (Bonding) . . . . . . . . . 7
Packet loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Network topology . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 4. Secure Managed Client
specific installation . . . . . . . . . . 9
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Secure Managed Client manual setup. . . . . . 10
Secure Managed Client switches . . . . . . 11
Secure Managed Client - Storage Array setup . . . 11
Secure Managed Client management core
installation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Secure Managed Client Storage Array provisioning 12
Chapter 5. LANDesk Information. . . . 13
Secure Managed Client / LANDesk setup . . . . 13
Retrieving the Secure Managed Client Console 13
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Installing LANDesk . . . . . . . . . . 14
Upgrading from Secure Managed Client version
1.2 to 2.0 .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Configuring the LANDesk Secure Managed
Client console
. . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Image types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Standard image . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Single image . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Local cache image . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Assigned seating . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Pristine image . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 6. Secure Managed Client
image creation and tuning . . . . . . 23
Creating Sysprep images . . . . . . . . . . 23
Preparing a Windows XP image . . . . . . 23
Cloning an existing Windows XP image . . . . 24
Preparing a Windows Vista image . . . . . . 24
Image optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Scheduled tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Application compatibility testing . . . . . . 36
Operating system services . . . . . . . . 37
Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Roaming user profiles and folder redirection . . . 39
Chapter 7. Populating a base image . . 41
Using bootable CD/DVD media . . . . . . . 41
SMCWinPE.iso . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Connecting to a target image LUN on an SMC
Storage Array using the iSCSI Initiator .
. . . 42
Copying a multiple partition image to the storage
array, version 1.x
. . . . . . . . . . . 43
Copying a multiple partition image to the storage
array, Version 2.0
. . . . . . . . . . . 44
Deploying the image directly to the storage array . 45
Boot acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Hints and tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
If not using a Lenovo CD. . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 8. Setting up network shares 49
Chapter 9. Configuring synchronous
and asynchronous replication. . . . . 51
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Creating synchronous replication . . . . . . . 51
Creating asynchronous replication . . . . . . . 52
Manual failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Chapter 10. Troubleshooting . . . . . 53
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Storage array diagnostics . . . . . . . . . 53
Secure Managed Client will not boot . . . . . 53
Clients will not boot after moving the
Management Console .
. . . . . . . . . 53
Management Core Server IP address has changed 54
Provisioning fails
. . . . . . . . . . . 54
No user image . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
LANDesk logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Unique network failure points . . . . . . . . 54
Binding order in the Secure Managed Client
environment .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Changing the binding order for Windows XP . . 55
Changing the binding order for Windows Vista 55
Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Appendix. Notices . . . . . . . . . . 59
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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