On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:18 AM, James Cammarata <jimi(a)sngx.net> wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2009 13:08:25 -0400, Scott Henson <shenson(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> This morning I had a quick idea that I thought I might throw out and see
> if anyone else could use it. Basically the idea is having cobbler
> provision storage for hosts based upon management classes or some other
> configuration management construct. Cobbler would need to be taught
> about accessing SAN and NAS devices to construct volumes and SAN luns,
> and then have those volumes mounted and/or formatted during the
> provisioning process of the host. Anyone think it is a good idea or
> have any comments on it?
Not a bad idea, other than the fact that no company I've ever worked at
would allow the linux server read/write access to the SAN/NAS devices :)
You don't have admin nodes for netapps? It is the best way to manage them.
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