[Beowulf] Diskless cluster provisioning/installation

[tegner at renget.se]

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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