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chrosken wrote: |
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| We have a clusters of machine and would like to setup network booting. At |
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| this time, we have to go to the data center and boot the machine manually. |
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| We would like to manage it as best as we could where we can save time and |
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| money. I heard network booting is a good way to go. I'm not sure how does |
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| network booting work, and also not sure if this is possible with Gentoo |
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| operating system. Sorry for the dumb questions, I am totally new to |
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| Networking. |
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| Can someone please point me to the right direction? |
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| Any help is appreciated. |
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You want to take a look at: |
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pxebooting |
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grub + netbooting |
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I remember seeing a demo from yamin at a gentoo UK conference demoing |
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netbooting with a genkernel kernel |
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Additionally ipmi would be interesting. ipmi is a standard for remote |
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management bioses, many of them are network enabled. At least all dell |
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servers have them, Sun hardware has something similar (they invented the |
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ipmi standard IIRC) and HP hardware... wel you get the picture. |
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Most of these BMC-chips allow for remote network control of bios |
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settings including power. They are reachable as soon as the server is |
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connected to a powersupply (doesn't have to be on) |
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We've build a system of catalyst, pxe+grub-netbooting + agaffneys |
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quick-install + puppet that uses pxe to start bare-metal servers and |
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bring up to production config in 45 minutes. We're busy enhancing that |
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with ipmi so we never need to go into the datacenter if we hire someone |
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to rack the servers. |
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All servers have a grub config which defaults to normal HD-based booting |
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but also have an option to netboot and possible re-install. |
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So, it's very possible with Gentoo :-) |
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Regards, |
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Ramon van Alteren |
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Senior System Administrator Hyves.nl |
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