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 1.1 GB. |
Approximately 1.9 GB. |
|
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, 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:
- Verify that you have installed the following software packages on the Backup Server:
- genisoimage
- squashfs-tools
- The CentOS-based Live CD can boot from a physical machine and ESX server VM only. It does not support other virtualization solutions.
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Review the Compatibility Matrix that provides the supported operating systems, databases, and browsers.