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Another vote for xCAT here - been using it for ~3 years now, on
installations ranging from 8 to 1+k nodes.
Once you get to know xCAT it's quite easy to manage, although
familiarity with perl will help in any troubleshooting or
customization (not required, you can do without, but it helps).
That said, I've been meaning for a long time to look at foreman
(http://theforeman.org/) especially with it's good integration with
puppet/chef/salt etc. which increasingly become more relevant to
large cluster management.
xCAT's integration with configuration management tools is somewhat
lacking, from my experience.
On 03/15/2016 02:40 PM, Bjørn-Helge
Mevik wrote:
I apologize for the slightly off-topic subject, but I could not think of
a better forum to ask. If you know of a more proper place to ask this,
I'd be happy to know about it.
We are currently in the design fase for a new cluster that is going to
be set up next year. We have so far used Rocks (on top of CentOS) for
cluster provisioning. However, Rocks don't support CentOS >= 7, and it
doesn't look like it will in the near future. Also for other reasons,
we are looking for alternatives to Rocks.
So, what are you using for cluster provisioning?
- Rocks?
- A different provisioning tool?
- A locally developed solution?
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Regards,
Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient,
Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo
