[Beowulf] Diskless cluster provisioning/installation

[Stu Midgley]

The ram disk image is very very sweet.  Simple things like logging
into nodes (and thus management with pdsh) is very very fast.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 8:45 PM,  <tegner at renget.se> wrote:
> Yes, have been thinking along these lines, specially intrigued about using
> ram disk.
>
> Do you happen to have any relevant links describing how this can be done?
>
> Thanks!
>
> /jon
>
> On November 6, 2015 at 5:49:00 am +01:00, Stu Midgley <sdm900 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Write your own. I personally find all the packaged systems way too
> stifling and don't do what you want, so you end up bending how you
> want to work.
>
> It is relatively simple to setup pxe booting and network booting from
> nfs or lustre or any other shared file system (or just rsync down the
> image to a ram disk).
>
> At least then, you have a bash script that you can tune to do what you want.
>
> Once you have a booted image, pdsh is about all you need.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Novosielski, Ryan
> <novosirj at ca.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
> Another vote here for Warewulf. Good stuff. Easy to use, but not lacking any
> features I need.
>
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> From: Beowulf [beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Vaughn Clinton
> [vclinton at msn.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 9:40 PM
> To: Chris Samuel; beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Diskless cluster provisioning/installation
>
> XCat is long in the tooth now. I'd take serious look at WareWulf. I've used
> WW and was happy with it:
>
> http://warewulf.lbl.gov/trac
>
>
>
> From: samuel at unimelb.edu.au
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 10:52:54 +1100
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Diskless cluster provisioning/installation
>
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 05:15:10 PM Matthew Wallis wrote:
>
> xCAT is still fairly popular.
>
>
> This is what we use here on our IBM and Lenovo gear (and previously our SGI
> gear too) for statelite (diskless nodes booting RAMdisk with NFS mounts for
> certain files & directories that we want to preserve information in such as
> GPFS config, Slurm logs, etc).
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_Linux_Statelite/
>
> All the best,
> Chris
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