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How to Set Up Rapid Server Imaging for CA AppLogic

As a System Administrator, you use CA Server Automation to manage and provision your physical and virtual server environments. Your environment includes CA AppLogic as either an internal or external cloud. You require a reliable mechanism for deploying images to your CA AppLogic environment.

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.

The following process provides a high-level overview of how to set up and use CA Server Automation to simplify RSI image deployment to CA AppLogic:

1. Verify RSI Prerequisites for AppLogic.
2. (Optional) If the CA AppLogic server is outside your internal network, Add Proxy Servers.
3. Add CA AppLogic Servers.
4. Register the RSI Server deployed to CA AppLogic to CA Server Automation.

   Note: To deploy images captured by other RSI servers, the RSI server in the CA AppLogic grid must share their depots.

5. Deploy RSI Images to CA AppLogic.