Zach,
I definitely do this at home. I suppose you could call it a small lab - but I do more
than test stuff in that I spin up VMs for normal work-level stuff (some tinkering, some to
support my open source projects)...
I do switch servers/hardware around a lot. Lately, I've been on a power-less kick,
trying to utilize the minimum amount of power I can but still do the most with what I have
(and only turn on my power hungry boxes when need be)...
My current setup is:
- DLInk DNS-320 NAS (two 256 GB sata drives). Runs Debian squeeze and is my DNS, DHCP
(internal to house) DDNS box (so my VMs/bare metal can register their names with DNS), NFS
and Samba server. Also is a TFTP server for PXE booting my bare metal.
- Acer Aspire pos (piece of bleep) laptop. Runs CentOS 5.8 centosplus Xen and is my
Cobbler and Puppet server. Also sports a CI VM (CentOS 6.3) (specifically Jenkins) and
sometimes other various low requirement VMs.
- Dell Latitude CPx-something-or-other pos laptop (1.2 GHz model w/ 512 MB RAM). Runs
CentOS 5.8 bare metal mostly for a side display using synergy controlled from my work
laptop (when I work from home).
- Two Dell Precision 470's running CentOS 5.8 Xen centosplus as hosts for VMs - each
has 4GB RAM.
- One Sun 64-bit early generation dual opteron box - running CentOS 5.8 Xen centosplus as
hosts for VMs. Has 8GB RAM.
- Have a P4 box with what I believe is a broken IDE controller. Am looking into doing
diskless boots with it, but haven't spent too much time on that yet...hope to sometime
soon :)
Interestingly enough I am NFS mounting a TFTP dir from my NAS but having Cobbler pos
laptop write out the PXE magic to that dir...
I call it my top-of-the-line server room circa 96 :)
I can spin up a ton of VMs on the "better" boxes. None of what I have supports
full virtualization - I'm stuck using paravirtualization. However, CentOS 5.8 as a
host OS is definitely fine for my needs. Everything also runs puppet for configuration.
I provision all my VMs using KOAN, and bare metal using PXE off the Cobbler pos laptop...
Flossy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zack Perry" <zack.perry(a)sbcglobal.net>
To: cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 9:06:33 PM
Subject: [cobbler] Ideal home test lab setup for testing out cobbler?
I have finally moved to a bigger place. Now I finally have some space
to setup a home test lab for testing various cobbler related ideas.
Currently, my new place has AT&T Uverse Internet service, a 2Wire
3600HGV Router, I have also got a few notebooks and netbooks as my
first set of test hardware. Nearly all of them run Linux (CentOS,
SL, Ubuntu, and Fedora), only one runs Windows XP/Home SP3.
I am sure that I am not the only who want to have a home-based test
lab :-) For these who have gone down this route, do you mind
sharing a bit of your setup? I am most interested in getting some
cost-effective hardware for my own "small lab". I have got a few
notebooks. Very proficient in RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, and KVM.
Regards,
--Zack.
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