What sorts of things are you looking to do? Is there a reason you want to stick with physical hosts instead of going all virtual? The hard part for dealing with physical machines is persistent data and automated configuration. The former is pretty tricky, but could be done w/ (pre/post)install scripts/the storage backend. The latter depends on what you're doing, but can probably be solved w/ a standard PXE install and some kind of config management (home-built, puppet, cfengine, etc,) to go from the standard install to a configured/running server.
The last time I was involved in looking into this sort of thing, we talked to egenera (http://www.egenera.com/) which had a pretty nice (though expensive) product. My recollection is that it's easy to specify a machine profile (cpu, ram, network connectivity, SAN connectivity, etc,) then you can simply shutdown a machine when you don't need it, and have it boot a different profile, for example. On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:43 PM, A. Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > Is anyone doing cloud computing with physical hosts (re-imaging with > pxeboot, > deploy studio, etc) or, even better, a mix of physical and virtual hosts? > If > so, what products did you investigate before picking your solution, and > what > did you eventually pick and why? I'm especially interested in solutions > that > support various distros and versions of linux and windows. >
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