[Beowulf] Diskless cluster provisioning/installation

[Douglas Eadline]

> 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?
>

http://warewulf.lbl.gov/trac

I you want to write your own, look at how Warewulf is done.
It is open source so you can borrow what you need.

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>
> 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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>> > > Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator
>> > > VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
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