On 2/18/14, 12:55 PM, Vruwink, Timothy Roger wrote:
Hello -
I am not finding much information with regards to provisioning guest
VM’s under a VMware vCenter 5.5 cluster (esxi 5.5 hosts) using cobbler.
I have Cobbler installed as a VM, and was able to PXE boot a guest VM,
and install a very basic CentOS VM. However, I had to carve out the
storage, setup the base VM, and copy the MAC address into my Cobbler
(script?).
Is there support in Cobbler to further automate this? Or would I be
better off using KVM/Xen or another virtualization solution?
Thank you.
Tim
I use VirtualBox but they all do the same thing. I'm unclear here. You
have to define the system to cobbler with cobbler system add somehow and
supply all the command line arguments unless you use the web interface.
Somehow all that information has to get in there. I use the command
line which is a bit lengthy. I wrote a little script to do it. But I
still have to supply the interface, MAC address, IP, name, netmask,
gateway and DNS information and whatever else is needed. If you're
doing lots of nodes you can automate but somehow the information has to
get in there. And you still need to create a kickstart for your basic
system.
VirtualBox has a number of command line tools to create storage and
attach it etc. So does libvirt using virsh. A quick look at the VMware
pages and looks like it does to.
Maybe I'm missing the question?
CJ
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