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

2012-11-02 Thread Zack Perry
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 hardwa

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

2012-11-02 Thread Scot Floess
using PXE off the Cobbler pos laptop... Flossy - Original Message - > From: "Zack Perry" > 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 m

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

2012-11-02 Thread James Cammarata
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Zack Perry wrote: > 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

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

2012-11-04 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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 run ESXi 5 and intend to update it to 5.1 which should give me the new web based admin. No

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

2012-11-04 Thread James Cammarata
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis 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 an

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

2012-11-05 Thread Virginian
I run a mixture of kit, briefly as follows: 2 x Intel Atom D525 running Citrix Xenserver (free version) with shared storage via DRBD 2. x Core i3 running Centos 6.3, KVM and Cluster suite with shared storage via DRBD 1 x Celeron 1Ghz laptop with 1GB RAM running Fedora 18 xfce destop (runs

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

2012-11-05 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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 wrote: > On Sun, Nov 4, 20

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

2012-11-05 Thread Zack Perry
Talking about shared storage, why not use the HekaFS or GlusterFS (both basically the same) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HekaFS or http://www.gluster.org/.  Red Hat owns it, Fedora has it OOTB.  I have tried it at work, and based on my limited experience, it seems to be decent. An OT: why this

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

2012-11-05 Thread Zack Perry
Hi, Yeah, the home router as DHCP server works. But at work, we use both dnsmasq and ISC DHCP servers (on different subnets), but cobbler manages them. My home router has a Web UI, but it's not as flexible as I would like it to be. I have been searching alternatives, OpenSSH VPN looks promisi

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

2012-11-05 Thread Zack Perry
My bad. The entire thread is there. I just didn't look closely enough. -- Zack [...] An OT: why this thread is not archived in the http://www.mail-archive.com/cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org/?  Anyone has an idea? -- Zack ___ cobbler mailing list co