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Name

Comment/Vendor

License

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

 

GPL

http://ping.windowsdream.com/ping.htmlImage Added  

YES

Only CIFS/Samba

YES
(Unreliable)

YES
PartImage

No | No?

Okay

Easy if everything Works

Inactive (~2007)

Perl based
Old, unreliable

NO

LinMing

 LinMing

 Proprietary

-http://www.linmin.com-

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 Removed

YES

 

 

 

 

 

 

Active
Python based

 

CrowBar2

OpenStack/Dell

Apache2

https://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar

Image Removed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very Active
Python

Likely

Razor

Puppet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Active

Likely

Foreman

Works with Puppet

GPL3

http://theforeman.org

Image Removed

 

 

 

 

Notification API! Have to check :D

 

 

 

 

MAAS/JUJU

Ubuntu/Canonical

GPL3

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/MAAS

Image Removed

YES

 

YES

TODO

 

 

 

Active
Python/Go based

Unlikely

Kickstart/Jumpstart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SpaceWalk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

iPXE/gPXE (ISO)

The Etherboot Project Community

 

http://ipxe.org

Image Removed

YES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clonezilla

 

 

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

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TODO TODOS:

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

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