HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, March 2012

Deploy a customized system configuration to many systems.
Avoid manual media swaps.
Speed up installation time for multiple systems.
Simply put, a golden image is built by setting up a single system the way you want all of your
systems to look, and then creating an image of that system. Once a golden image has been created,
it is then deployed to multiple clients.
This method allows you to deploy a known-good system image that contains all of the files including
configuration files that you want installed, and it is also faster the standard SD-built network depots
(as described in “Network depot” (page 19)).
For more information about golden images, see the Ignite-UX Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i
(http://www.hp.com/go/ignite-ux-docs).
20 Choosing your installation methods