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Many Sites Support #129

Open trongtinh1212 opened 4 months ago

trongtinh1212 commented 4 months ago

Hi, in my company currently using MDT , each countries have many sites and we have up to 20 servers as WDS, my question is in MDT I can use %WDSServer% variable in DeployRoot (Boottrap.ini) to controll it and use DFS replication for each WDS. I can see that %WDSServer% variable still available in PSD but it's seem not working at all. I don't use DefaultGateway because WDS and client machines dont using same gateway to boot.

trongtinh1212 commented 4 months ago

1 more thing is in our mdt , we also use SQL and use %Location% variable to define OSDComputerName, we also add the site name and defaultgateway to sql so the machine can boot to correct deploymentshare and have the right name

DeploymentBunny commented 4 months ago

Hi, no, we have not added that, since PSD can be used centrally, in our environment we have one single PSD server for the entire world, what would be your reason to have multiple PSD servers?

trongtinh1212 commented 4 months ago

Hi, no, we have not added that, since PSD can be used centrally, in our environment we have one single PSD server for the entire world, what would be your reason to have multiple PSD servers?

ya cuz we have many sites on each country so it will be good for each site can boot

GeoSimos commented 4 months ago

Hi, no, we have not added that, since PSD can be used centrally, in our environment we have one single PSD server for the entire world, what would be your reason to have multiple PSD servers?

ya cuz we have many sites on each country so it will be good for each site can boot

What Mike @DeploymentBunny says is that because you can leverage the "Image deploy from anywhere" via PSD, you don't need to distribute the load to multiple sites, in fact you can use much less infrastructure and resources. What we see frequently in here is that people are thinking in the old way of how MDT works, what will help you to better design and implement the PSD solution is a change of mindset, the documentation helps a lot to understand the moving parts as well as the community here. So for example (rough), you could host one PSD server in each region on a cloud provider and image all the sites of that region through it.

trongtinh1212 commented 4 months ago

@GeoSimos ya i know, but in our enviroment have many sites on each country and due to network limitation so we use DFS Replication from main server to each WDS so machine on that site can deploy from their site faster

trongtinh1212 commented 4 months ago

@GeoSimos ah sorry my bad haha, actually we have a plan to moving all the servers to Cloud instead of using real server machine on each site and yeah we can use much less infrastructure and resources