I’ve learnt provisioning. It’s boring. I’ve learnt PXE, DHCP, Kickstart, DNS, Routing. It takes an hour and a half to get a blade up and it’s very boring, unacceptable and needs streamlining and automating. Looked into a few provisioning system, but I’m going to invest some time with Spacewalk. I’ll report back soon.
Servers Arrived
The three new servers arrived. Spent the evening trying to discover the static IPs they were configured to, then reconfiguring then to use the IP range I’d assigned to my rack. Very boring.
Found I can’t let the servers all power on at once, because the fans go to bonkers nutter setting 11 for a few seconds on power up, and would, together, overload my PSU. Set them all not to auto power on. It’s really not that far to the bedroom, err, I mean data centre.
Been reading about Chef by Opscode.com to provision services on the cluster and Eucalyptus to provide a compute cloud privately, that’s compatible with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud. Can’t wait to play with these puppies. Still looking for a simple OS deployment system. Anyone? No?
Edit: Looks like KickStart is a good place to begin.
