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Setup PXE Server. Add steps for CentOS/Ubuntu

Syslinux: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Image Added

DHCP Server

Setup dhcpd. Add steps for CentOS/Ubuntu

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- Ease of use and reliability

- ASF compatible licensing and opensource

- Maintainability: Development should be on going or it should be stable enough

Comparison of various baremetal solutions as of Sep 2012: (add/suggest more)

Name

Comment/Vendor

License /Vendor

WWW

PXE/IPMI

NFS/CIFS

ISO Provisioning

Image Provisioning Backup/Restore

Notification | Post-script

API/Docs

Ease of Setup/Use

Development

Consideration

PING

Used by CloudStack 2.2.14

 

 

YES

Only CIFS/Samba

YES
PartImage (Perl based) Unreliable)

YES
PartImage

No | No?

Okay

Easy if everything Works

Inactive

Perl based
Old, unreliable

NO

LinMing

 LinMing

 Proprietary

-

http://www.linmin.com-Image Added

YES

N/A

 

N/A

N/A

N/A

 N/A

 N/A

NO

Cobbler

Fedora/RedHat, now on Github

GPL

https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki\\Image Added http://cobbler.github.com/\\Image Added

YES

 

 

 

 

 

 

Active
Python based

 

CrowBar2
 

OpenStack/Dell

Cobbler

Apache2

https://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar\\Image Added https://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar-sledgehammer\\Image Added RedHat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very Active
Python

Likely

Razor

Puppet

 

 

CrowBar

OpenStack/Dell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Razor

Active

Likely

Foreman

Works with Puppet

GPL3

 http://theforeman.org/\\Image Added http://theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/Features\\Image Added Puppet

 

 

 

 

Notification API! Have to check :D

 

 

 

 

MAAS/JUJU

Ubuntu/Canonical

GPL3

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/MAAS\\Image Added https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuCloudInfrastructure\\Image Added http://marcoceppi.com/2012/05/juju-maas-virtualbox/\\Image Added

YES

 

YES

TODO

 

 

 

Active
Python/Go based

Unlikely

Kickstart/Jumpstart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SpaceWalk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

iPXE/gPXE (ISO)

The Etherboot Project Community

 

 http://ipxe.org/\\Image Added http://etherboot.org/wiki/startImage Added

YES Kickstart/Jumpstart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clonezilla

  SpaceWalk

 

 http://clonezilla.org/downloads/stable/iso-zip-files.phpImage Added

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TODO TODOS:

- Evaluate all of them and ipmitool vs. gnuipmi vs. own java implementation of ipmitool

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