Keith's Blade Adventures

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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.

$Here’s the cool part of iLo - you get to see the console booting up but in a web page. There’s also another tool that lets you mount a disk image .iso as a CD drive on the blade remotely. This allows you to do an operating system install remotely. \o/ I’ve got PXE booting and installation almost working (god that’s not fun - I won’t elaborate - just read the fun manual) only it says it can’t find the kickstart file when it is DEFINITELY THERE! I’ve got a Centos machine VMed on my Windows 7 machine in the sitting room. That’s running DHCP, TFTPD etc. I’m VNCed into that from my netbook in bed. Lazy admin.$

Here’s the cool part of iLo - you get to see the console booting up but in a web page. There’s also another tool that lets you mount a disk image .iso as a CD drive on the blade remotely. This allows you to do an operating system install remotely. \o/

I’ve got PXE booting and installation almost working (god that’s not fun - I won’t elaborate - just read the fun manual) only it says it can’t find the kickstart file when it is DEFINITELY THERE!

I’ve got a Centos machine VMed on my Windows 7 machine in the sitting room. That’s running DHCP, TFTPD etc. I’m VNCed into that from my netbook in bed. Lazy admin.