[Beowulf] Diskless cluster provisioning/installation

[Vaughn Clinton]

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
> -- 
>  Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
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