On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM, 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?
Sounds like something you should wrap around cobbler and not put
inside it. At Ticketmaster, we used a tool for this aptly named
provision[1]. For virtual machines, libvirtd should do the storage
stuff for you. Perhaps someone should rewrite provision in python or
just add in hooks to use non-netapp (generic linux) storage. It also
seems like the kind of thing Satellite or the open source project it
sits ontop of should implement. What do you think?
[1]
http://code.ticketmaster.com/index.php?page=provision-overview
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