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Review the Live CD Prerequisites and Considerations

Before you create a CentOS-based Live CD, review the following table which compares the default Live CD to the CentOS-based Live CD:

Parameters

Default Live CD

CentOS-based Live CD

Backup Server Installation Media

Supported

Not Supported

Desktop UI

Not supported.

Users must use a browser on a Windows machine to browse the Backup Server web UI.

Supported.

CentOS-based Live CD includes a browser. Users do not need any additional browser to browse the Backup Server web UI..

Image size

Approximately 400 MB.

The image can be burned on a CD.

More than 800 MB.

The image must be burned on a DVD.

Additional device driver for the Live CD

Not supported

Supported

Local BMR

(Recover machine without installing another Backup Server)

Supported

Supported

PXE Boot Image

Supported

Not supported

Remove CD/ISO from the BMR target machine after the machine is booted

Supported

Not supported.

DVD/ISO must be mounted on the BMR target machine all the time during the recovery process, until the BMR job is finished and the machine is rebooted.

Live CD operating system environment in English

Yes

Yes.

Desktop UI is also in English

Localized language for the Backup Server Web UI

Yes

Yes

Node type support

Support physical machine, VMWare ESX server, RHEV, OVM, Citrix Xen VM

Only support physical machine and VMware ESX server VM

Consider the following prerequisites before you create a CentOS-based Live CD: