On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 18:14 -0500, Kyle Gonzales wrote: > This is pretty interesting. How many diskless systems are you running, > and for what workloads?
Workstations and Xen host(dom0) servers. Nothing to crazy in numbers 2-4 workstations, and 2-3 Xen servers. But thats mostly due to hardware on hand, and really no need or use for any more. Have stuff sitting unused as is, and whats in use is hardly under any loads :) Though scaling is a matter of creating some additional directories for local bind mount points and nfs export. Then updating /etc/fstab, /etc/exports, /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf. Which could all easily be scripted/programmed into an application. But I doubt i will go that far, not dealing with crazy numbers to justify such :) Just tired of having hard drives all over the place. For organizations of most any size. Makes sense with Network speeds and other things these days. To centralize storage, and just have diskless systems. You can scale much faster, no installation. Really all kinds of things that can be done, even to expedite administration ;) Will do a presentation on it in January or February if the group is interested. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
