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This page describes how to create a Linux base image. These instructions should work regardless of the provisioning engine being used. If you are using these instructions to create an xCAT bare metal image, ignore the sections with titles beginning with VMware Only:. This document assumes familiarity with xCAT and VMware.

Terminology

  • Management node: Linux server with the following components installed:
  • Compute node: Refers to the target blade or virtual machine on which Windows is installed.
  • Provisioning engine: Software which is able to interact with the compute node making it possible to install an OS on it
    • VCL can utilize several different provisioning engines including xCAT, VMware Server, VMware ESX, and VMware ESXi.  xCAT is a cluster management tool used to install images on bare metal blades.\
    • The provisioning engine may be a hypervisor if the compute nodes are virtual machines (VMware)
    • The provisioning engine may interact with the BladeCenter's management module if the compute nodes are IBM blades (xCAT)
    • The provisioning engine may utilize IMPI if the compute nodes support it (xCAT)

Requirements

You will need the following:

  • Compute node has already been added to the VCL database
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