
242 4.5 Leveraging storage technologies
There are alternatives to RDP for imaging a server boot device, but the
relatively low cost of a single server RDP license is negligible compared to
the advantages of deploying such a solution. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/
products/servers/management/rdp/index.html has good information about
HP RDP.
Note that RDP can be used as an overall server failover/management
automation framework that can assist you in the management of the LUN
presentation. Also, opportunities exist for coupling RDP deployment jobs
with array management command scripting utilities (such as SSSU in HP
StorageWorks EVA environments).
Typical usage ...