William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 18:14 -0500, Kyle Gonzales wrote: >> This is pretty interesting. How many diskless systems are you running, >> and for what workloads? > > Workstations and Xen host(dom0) servers. Nothing to crazy in numbers 2-4 > workstations, and 2-3 Xen servers. But thats mostly due to hardware on > hand, and really no need or use for any more. Have stuff sitting unused > as is, and whats in use is hardly under any loads :) > > Though scaling is a matter of creating some additional directories for > local bind mount points and nfs export. Then > updating /etc/fstab, /etc/exports, /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf. Which could all > easily be scripted/programmed into an application. But I doubt i will go > that far, not dealing with crazy numbers to justify such :) > > Just tired of having hard drives all over the place. For organizations > of most any size. Makes sense with Network speeds and other things these > days. To centralize storage, and just have diskless systems. You can > scale much faster, no installation. Really all kinds of things that can > be done, even to expedite administration ;) > > Will do a presentation on it in January or February if the group is > interested. I would be interested to hear about your implementation... I know I will not be around for February tho... might be around for January.
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