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How to Deploy Rapid Server Imaging Using CA ITCM

As a System Administrator, you use CA Server Automation to manage the optimal policy-driven provisioning of software images across your physical and virtual server resources.

Rapid Server Imaging (RSI) provides cross-platform and heterogeneous hardware provisioning, physical and virtual server migration, disaster recovery, and image capture and deployment. Images can be deployed across dissimilar hardware with multiple operating environments provided the hardware belongs to the same processor family.

Use the optional integration product CA ITCM (which includes CA Software Delivery) to distribute preconfigured packages for RSI Server and RSI agents.

Prerequisites:

1. Install and configure CA ITCM to manage the environment where you want to deploy RSI.

   Note: For more information, see the CA ITCM Implementation Guide.

2. During CA Server Automation configuration, set the Domain Manager and Scalability Server settings to match your CA ITCM deployment.
3. Verify that the following CA Server Automation services are installed and configured to support RSI deployment using CA ITCM:
   • Provisioning Manager
   • Deployment and Configuration Distribution (Scalability) Server
   • SDAdapter
   • CA Integration to Rapid Server Imaging (RSI)

   Note: For more information, see the CA Server Automation Installation Guide.

Important! The supplied RSI Server MWS package can only be deployed to a Red Hat Linux server.

To perform this process, ensure that you have the following access rights:

• Access to DVD3 of the CA Server Automation installation media that contains the RSI packages.
• Administrator privileges for CA Server Automation and CA ITCM
• Administrator credentials for all target servers for RSI Server and Agent deployment
• (Optional) Credentials for hypervisors controlling virtual machines

The following process provides a high-level overview of how to install and deploy RSI using CA Server Automation and CA ITCM:

1. Register the RSI Server Package
2. Customize the RSI Server Package
3. Deploy the RSI Server
4. Register the RSI Server
5. Register the RSI Agent Packages
6. Deploy the RSI Agent Packages