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.pe...@sbcglobal.net> > To: cobbler@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. > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > -- Make It So Number One _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler