[Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in importance on the IT road ahead

[David Froble]

Kerry Main wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
>> Bob Koehler via Info-vax
>> Sent: 03-Feb-16 1:19 PM
>> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
>> Cc: Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org>
>> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in importance
>> on the IT road ahead
>>
>> In article <cbc93d79-178b-4e09-8f3b-
>> 7d2e91cb755e at googlegroups.com>, IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com>
>> writes:
>>> Could VSI perhaps one day distribute VMS + Application 'on a stick' so
>> to s=
>>> peak?
>>    Particularly usefull on OS where the vendor recommends each instance
>>    only support one application.
>>
>>    Not necessarily the right solution for all.
>>
> 
> Could be very nice solution for distributing pre-configured OS instances
> such as hobby and/or dev environments i.e. with long list of open source
> and dev prod's + latest patches installed and ready to go.. would only need 
> to tweak the OS instance specific info e.g. tcpip, licenses, etc.
> 
> Many Cust's create "gold" disks or their customized release specific OS 
> images for much faster rollouts. This is also similar to how large VMware 
> shops deploy new images. They do not deploy base images of Windows
> or Linux then do patches / custom info. They simply deploy the latest gold
> OS instance image of that particular environment.
> 
> Case in point - I spent most of a week downloading, installing / customizing 
> dev and open source prod's on a new env .. would have been great to simply 
> download a single LD file, then do a backup to my local disk.  Downloaded OS 
> image could be setup with modparams updates, sysuaf quotas updated for 
> specific accounts, latest Java installed etc .. 
> 
> There are always some issues with gold disks, but they do have loads of
> value in larger shops.

Uh ....

Isn't this sort of like

$ BACKUP /IMAGE /VERIFY <custom system disk save set> <target>

Ya know, like we were doing 30+ years ago ????