DRBL Clonezilla HPC Asia 2009

The Massive Deployment Tools:
DRBL and Clonezilla
Steven Shiau, Jazz Wang, Ceasar Sun,

Thomas Tsai
NCHC, Taiwan
Q1, 2009
Outline
 Introduction to DRBL/Clonezilla
 About DRBL/Clonezilla
 Users in Taiwan and Worldwide
 Related Activities
 Success Stories
 Testimonials
 Demo
 DRBL – Diskless Linux client on a virtual
machine
 Q&A
Free Software Lab
 Free software projects
developed by NCHC's
Free Software Lab
 Our goal is to create a
Free Software Smart
Classroom (FSSC) based
on our HPC experience
 DRBL, Clonezilla, DRBL-
WinRoll, Tux2Live,
PartClone
 Multicast VNC
 Access Grid, eLearning
 Cluster Computing
 Grid Computing
DRBL/Clonezilla
DRBL Clonezilla
Diskless Remote Boot in Linux
Provides a “diskless” A partitioning and disk
and/or “systemless” cloning utility similar to
environment for client Ghost and True image
machines
DRBL
 Saves Money
 No HD required in the client machine(s)
 Truly “Free” Software--freedom to
improve upon and free to use
 Saves Time
 All programs are installed on a single
server
 One command to
Shutdown/Reboot/Power On/Off all client
machines
 Makes Life Easier
 No client disk failure
 Client machines are plug-and-play
 Computer classroom environment is
extremely flexible
 GNU/Linux & MS Windows co-exist
DRBL vs. LTSP
 What's the difference between
DRBL and LTSP?:
 DRBL: Distributed Resource vs.
LTSP: Centralized Resource
 DRBL: Powerful Client vs.
LTSP: Thin Client
 DRBL allows 3D gaming and
video playback in the client; LTSP
does not
Why DRBL?
 DRBL Special Features:
 Clonezilla Server Edition (SE)
 AoE service available using diskless MS
Windows XP
 A single command is required to switch the
client environment
 DRBL, FreeDOS, OS in local HD, memtest...
 Linux network installation
 Not suitable for older machines and/or thin
clients
 //NOTE// From version 5 (released '07), fat client
mechanism is supported in LTSP
“Bare Metal” Backup and Restore
 “Bare metal” restore -> A technique in the
field of data recovery and restoration where
the backed-up data is available in a form
which allows one to restore a computer
system from "bare metal” (i.e. without any
requirements as to previously installed
software or operating systems). – Wikipedia
 Image-based backup & restore is different
from file-based (e.g. 'cp', 'tar', 'rsync'...)
Clonezilla Features
 Free (GPL) Software
 File systems supported: Ext2/3,
ReiserFS, Reiser4, XFS, jfs, HFS+,
FAT and NTFS
 Linux Logical Volume Manager 2
(LVM2) stackable block device is
supported
 Multicast supported in Clonezilla
Server Edition (SE)
Clonezilla Features
 Saves and restores partitions and
entire disks
 If file system is supported, only the
used blocks in the HD are saved and
restored. For unsupported file
systems, sector-to-sector copying is
done via dd.
 DRBL-Winroll: The hostname, group,
and SID of the cloned MS Windows
machine can be changed
automatically
Clonezilla
 Based on existing software:
 Partimage
 ntfsclone
 dd
 updcast
 DRBL (used for massive
cloning)
 Partclone (Developed @ the
NCHC, '07)
 and more.....
Partclone
 http://www.partclone.org
 Developed by Thomas Tsai and
Jazz Wang
 Only the used blocks are saved and
restored
 Supports Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS,
Reiser4, XFS, HFS+, NTFS & FAT
 Will support for ZFS and BTRFS in
the future!
Two Clonezilla Types
 Clonezila Server  Clonezilla Live
Edition (SE)  Single machine
 Massive cloning backup
 Network boot (PXE)  Based on
 DRBL server is DebianLive (live-
required helper and live
initramfs)
 CD/USB flash
drive is required
 Also available in
 Clonezilla-
SysRescCD,
created by Spiros
Georgaras
DRBL (Includes Clonezilla SE)
server switch client nodes

pxe/etherboot pxe/etherboot
DHCP IP 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.40
TFTP kernel boot boot
NFS file system /, /usr, /home ... /, /usr, /home ...
NIS account user login user login

DRBL Schematic
public ip
NIC 1
server
NIC 2 NIC 3 NIC 4
private ip private ip private ip
switch 1 switch 2 switch 3
node001 node013 node014 node027 node028 node040

~ ~ ~
DRBL
Clonezilla Live
 On CD, USB flash drive, or PXE server
 Languages:
 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese (thanks to
Zhiqiang Zhang and Liang Qi), English, French
(thanks to Jean-Francois Nifenecker), Japanese
(thanks to Akira Yoshiyama and Annie Wei),
Italian (thanks to Gianfranco Gentili), Spanish
(thanks Juan Ramón Martínez).
 General Purpose Use- Save or restore interactively
 Special Purpose Use- Recovery CD/USB drive
 Clonezilla image embedded in CD or USB drive
 One command restores the entire image!
 One key restores the entire image!
 Completely Customizable! Make Clonezilla
Live work for you!
Clonezilla Live
DRBL/Clonezilla Use In Taiwan
Public Sector:
Primary/High schools 295
Universities 95
Local governments 35
Hospitals 3
TV stations 1
SMBs 124
Misc. 2
Known sites/users >500!!!

DRBL/Clonezilla Use Worldwide
西班牙
中國
南非
澳洲
>700,000 DRBL/Clonezilla Downloads!!!

Related Activities
 Ubuntu Live Conference
 Portland, Oregon, USA, July 23rd, 2007
 Clonezilla: It's Better Than Ghost!
 Speaker: Kristian Hermansen, Security
Researcher/Developer, Cisco Systems, Inc.
 http://www.ubuntulive.com/cs/ubuntu/view/e_se
ss/12510
 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
 San Francisco, USA, Aug, 2007
 Dell booth
 Massive Deployments
 Speaker: Torsten Spindler, Canonical
Related Activities
 Libre Software Meeting (LSM) 2008
 Mont-de-Marsan, France, July 1st~5th, 2008
 “Clonezilla Live, the “Bare Metal” Backup and
Recovery Tool“
 Speaker: Steven Shiau
 http://2008.rmll.info/Clonezilla-live-the-bare-
metal.html?lang=en
 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
 San Francisco, USA, Aug, 2008
 .org Pavilion (booth #: .org 3)
 BoF: Clonezilla Hands-on Lab: The Universal
“Bare Metal” Backup and Recovery Tool for
Linux, Mac OS and MS Windows
Ubuntu Live, USA, Jul/07
LinuxWorld; “Massive Deployments;” Aug/07
International Free Software Contest
 DRBL is the winner in the 'Public Sector
Software' category at Les Trophees du
Libre 2007 in France
 Finals and awards ceremony: Nov. 29th,
2007
 http://www.freesoftwareawards.com or
http://tropheesdulibre.com/?lang=en
Intrnl. Free Software Contest, France, Nov/07
LSM 2008, France
LinuxWorld, San Fran, '08
Aug 4-7, 2008
 One of the largest Linux expos.
 .org Pavilion (booth #: .org 3)
 BoF: “Clonezilla Hands-on Lab: The
Universal “Bare Metal” Backup and
Recovery Tool for Linux, Mac OS and MS
Windows” (Aug. 6th, '08)
National Applied Research Laboratories Award
 DRBL/Clonezilla team is the winner in the
category 'Technology Development' for 2008
Success Stories
Da-Feng Elementary School, Taipei,
Taiwan
 DRBL/Clonezilla is
used to manage
computer classroom
 Special Report: Linux
in Education, 2006 on
distrowatch.com
 DRBL/Clonezilla press
conference @ Da-
Feng Elementary
School 07/04/07
source: distrowatch.com
Success Stories
Hualien County, Taiwan
 Used Clonezilla
Server Edition (SE) to
clone GNU/Linux
 145 schools (131
Primary/Jr.; 14 Senior
High) use as of June
'08
 Letter of
Commendation from
Hualien County
Government
Clonezilla Used in Taiwan's
“National PCs”
Source: De-Wen Huang

Testimonials
 Kristian Hermansen
 Cisco Systems, Boston, MA, Sept. '07
 Cloned a 5GB image to 64 machines in
5 under minutes!!!
 "I used Clonezilla in the design of our Cisco
Computational Cloud Cluster to multicast a
5GB disk image to 64 machines
simultaneously and all in under five minutes!
Amazing! Thanks Clonezilla!"
Testimonials
 Barny Sanchez
 Information Systems Security,
Southbridge, Massachusetts
 Cloned 1,084 systems using DRBL
(Clonezilla SE)
 "I've used DRBL to clone 1,084 systems so far! It was
simple! All I had to do was divide each system into
groups of 80-100 PCs and then use multicasting to do the
cloning. It took anywhere from 16-38 minutes to clone
each system. The images of various operating systems
averaged 1GB in size. DRBL has reduced the
recovery/cloning factor by more than 500% as compared
to the commercial solution I used previously! You can
imagine how happy my project managers are!"
What's New Since SEAIP 2007 ?
 DRBL
 Supports newer GNU/Linux versions
including Ubuntu 8.04/8.10, Fedora 9,
Mandriva 2008.1, and OpenSuSE 11.0
 Provides AoE booting mechanism in
support of diskless MS Windows XP
 Clonezilla Live
 Easier to create a recovery ISO/zip
Clonezilla Live
 Japanese, Simplified Chinese and French
locales were added
 Serial console is supported
Demo
• Diskless Linux client on a virtual machine
– Server: DRBL 1.9.3-30 running on Ubuntu Linux 8.10
– Client: Virtualbox 2.0.4 as a client machine, no local
hard drive
– Boot client via PXE (network booting)
Questions ?
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The Massive Deployment Tools:

DRBL and Clonezilla

Steven Shiau, Jazz Wang, Ceasar Sun,

server switch client nodes

DHCP IP 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.40

TFTP kernel boot boot

NFS file system /, /usr, /home ... /, /usr, /home ...

NIS account user login user login

private ip private ip private ip

switch 1 switch 2 switch 3

node001 node013 node014 node027 node028 node040

Known sites/users >500!!!

>700,000 DRBL/Clonezilla Downloads!!!

Source: De-Wen Huang

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