LinMin

LinMin Snapshot Manager (LSM) lets you manage your physical systems running Windows, Linux, BSD & ESXi as if they were virtual machines: bare metal provisioning, cloning, rollback & more using LSM RAM Agent technology, imaging & scripting on Intel x86-based systems. LSM™ combines bare metal disk imaging, user scripting and machine-resident LSM RAM Agent™ technology to provide a reliable, network-based framework for bare metal deployments, back ups and cloning of machines and groups of machines. Hardware vendor and OS neutral: use any x86-64 hardware and operating system, then have LSM deploy, update, back up, clone and analyze all your servers, blades, VMs, desktops, notebooks, devices... LSM Use Cases: Workload Switching: "Let's re-purpose these 10 systems for a few days, then roll them back when the new hardware arrives"​ Mass rollouts: "Please rack and cable that pallet of 100 new systems. Perform bare metal server provisioning on these 30 with Windows Server 2019 Data Center and those 70 with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Cloud Server. Fully configured. Today."​ Environment Rollback: "Something in our app stack broke in the last 2 days. Roll back these 8 configured servers to how they were last week, then roll forward and figure out what went wrong"​ System Discovery: "Tell me everything about the hardware and firmware of all of my systems"​ New system purchases: "Before we buy 1000 of this shiny new model, I want to be sure it can run any of my OSs and app stacks with good performance. My LSM payload strings all my sample workloads into a single sequence. Model ABC passed all my tests in a few hours, but model XYZ failed test 6 and crawled running test 8. Without LSM, it would have taken me days or weeks to figure this out, and I could have easily missed something..."​