hej, I guess if we talk about pxe+puppet, we may as well mention xcat and fai-project.
xcat is Redhat/SUSE centric but it can also abstract VM management ( eg: the xcat command "rmigrate" can move a VM instance from one VM server to another) Works with KVM, Xen, VMWare/vSphire and VirtualBox. One merely edits a kickstart template and then type "rinstall hostname" ( hostname, hostgourp or virtualhost). All perl based and/but well written. It offers stateless, statefull and statelight installations. In my experience, the BIOS is 2/3 of the boot time with statless systems. --- If you have lots of VMs and HALinux this is the way to go! fai-project uses cfengine, perl and any interpreter you can install in to the PXE config ( nfsroot, stateless ramdisk etc) . One can also log in while installation is taking place. Extremely flexible. I have used both for 8+ years. fai for desktop environments and xcat for server environments. Glück! hro On 2012-05-04, at 8:50 PM, Nick Sklav wrote: > On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 11:23 -0400, David Filion wrote: >> Does anyone have experience using Cobbler or Spacewalk (or both)? If >> so, what do you think of them? Pros, cons? >> >> I have a large number of CentOS VMs to install and our current PXE setup >> requires too much manual configuration for our my liking so I'm looking >> for something better. >> >> >> David > > Hi David > > I believe cobbler and spacewalk would both be needed. btw > What i have been using as of late is a pxe server which does a minimal > install of Debian in my case and then puppet to manage the configs > across different setup. So far it works like a charm. And almost > guarantees consistency across servers. > > PS: I believe cobbler and spacewalk would both be needed. btw > > SpaceWalk does look sweet though in screen-shots. > > Also something more related to what you asked with examples on how-to > setup. > http://www.reisesakte.info/spacewalk/ > > Later, > > Nick Sklav > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
