[cobbler] Ideal home test lab setup for testing out cobbler?
Scot Floess
sfloess at redhat.com
Sat Nov 3 01:25:44 UTC 2012
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 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: cobbler at 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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