I used this resource to add support for image-based installs: https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage-ng-to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html
It adds two commands to xCAT: nodeset <node> image (to capture image), nodeset <node> install (to deploy image). It works well on IBM HS21/HS22 servers (I don't have other IBM blades to test) Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 14:49 , Bruce M Potter wrote: > We have also begun to work on integrating System Imager and xCAT. The main > advantage this will have over andrew's solution is the ability to push just > delta changes from the golden node to the rest of the nodes. But this is > going to take us a while, so andrew's solution is the right one to go with > for now. > > Bruce Potter STSM, Linux & AIX Cluster Development, IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY > Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Phone: external: > 845-433-7073, internal: TL 293-7073 > > > "Blatt, Andrew C" ---06/20/2012 12:47:56 PM---We wrote our own to do this, we > called it localdisk-statelite due to our high availability requireme > > From: "Blatt, Andrew C" <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])>, > Date: 06/20/2012 12:47 PM > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Diskful mode > > > > We wrote our own to do this, we called it localdisk-statelite due to our high > availability requirements. An earlier version of the scripts (our own > initrd/modifications to rc.statelite) were put in a feature request here: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3158216&group_id=208749&atid=1006948 > > That might help you get started.. > > From: Eric Chennells [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 12:37 PM > To: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > Subject: [xcat-user] Diskful mode > > Hello, > > We are currently testing out a xcat-statelite node image for our cluster, and > are happy with it, but we are running into the problem that our NFS server > can't handle the amount of traffic we are sending it. The type of jobs we run > create a lot of I/O reading libraries. > > We are starting to consider the idea of just putting hard drives in the > nodes, and I am a bit confused about the functionality that xCAT provides for > "diskful" installs. Is it basically limited to pxe/kickstart installations of > nodes? Is there no way to deploy a "master" image to each node? Essentially > what I am imaging is being able to manage the node image on the xCAT > management server, the way it is done with statelite installs, but instead of > using NFS/RAM it would just install it to the local drive? > > Thanks, > > Eric > > > > Notice of Confidentiality: The information transmitted is intended only for > the > person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or > privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use > of > or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or > entities > other than the intended recipient is prohibited. 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