On 25/08/15 14:20, Bruno Pereira wrote: > Diskless is tricky using the current structure of MAAS (at least on the > stage I last tested it around 1 year ago), its fairly simple to do, but not > if you follow a install with a reboot in to OS, similar to kickstart > installations, structure. > > For diskless you need to pxe boot a initial initrd and kernel image, load > the same kernel as your OS image, find a way of downloading your image (bit > torrent is an idea as much silly as it might sound, deployment of 1000's of > servers is really hard even for very fast networks), decompress that image > to RAM, chrooting and loading your OS system with services and all. > > Diskless is fancy and cool, but not required to do HPC, after all you don't > keep deploying a cluster day after day (even running diskless the up time > is amazing), stability is the word. 99% of the clusters you see in the > field are with some sort of HDDs. The only one I remember have seen > installed by my company was big 3k nodes recently, but the last one was > more than a year ago.
PXE, initrd, iSCSI is the likely path (though RD is not inconceivable either). BT is feasible for image distribution, yes. Mark -- Juju mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju
