[CentOS] alternative to rocks cluster
Alfred von Campe
alfred at 110.net
Fri Feb 9 19:08:03 UTC 2007
> One thing I have NOT figured out is the limitation of having one
> front-end, which is a single source of failure for accessing the
> cluster.
That is my main issue with Rocks as well. That and the fact that you
have to have a private and a public network (which although a good
idea, not always desirable).
Back to the original poster, are you looking for a way to rebuild the
nodes automatically, remotely, and completely hands off, or just
merely to rebuild them quickly? I only deal with a couple of dozen
nodes (not hundreds), and using kickstart and storing the config
files on the server allows me to rebuild a node in about 15 minutes,
of which only the first minute or two requires my attention and
physical presence. I wrote a simple Perl script that generates the
kickstart file for each node.
Alfred
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