[cobbler] Ideal home test lab setup for testing out cobbler?

Gerhardus Geldenhuis gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 09:42:45 UTC 2012


Another interesting idea... which might or might not work is to buy a few
raspberry pi s and connect each to a HD and all of them to a fast switch.
Then use Ceph file system to do distributed storage. http://ceph.com/

Regards


On 4 November 2012 18:10, James Cammarata <jimi at sngx.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis
> <gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> > I can't really comment in detail about hardware. For most stuff ram is
> > probably better to have than CPU in terms of virtualization and fast
> storage
> > and/or more or at least one controller card for disks.
>
> I agree, disk space and speed are probably the most important areas to
> focus with cobbler. Like a database, avoid RAID5 (stick with 1 or
> 0+1). Unless you're dealing with 1000+ systems SATA disks should be
> sufficient. If you're building a lot of systems simultaneously, more
> RAM and faster 10-15K disks would help too, but I doubt that'd be the
> case with most lab setups.
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