On Dec 9, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Eric Shook wrote:
Not to diverge this conversation, but has anyone had any experience using this pxe boot / nfs model with a rhel variant? I have been wanting to do a nfs root or ramdisk model for some-time but our software stack requires a rhel base so Scyld and Perceus most likely will not work (although I am still looking into both of them to make sure)
I haven't made any announcements on this list about Perceus yet, so just to clarify:
Perceus (http://www.perceus.org) works very well with RHEL and we will soon have some VNFS capsules for the commercial distributions including high performance hardware and library stack and application stack pre-integrated into the capsule (which we will offer, support and certify for various solutions via Infiscale (http:// www.infiscale.com).
note: Perceus capsules contain the kernel, drivers, provisioning scripts and utilities to support provisioning the VNFS into a single file that is importable into Perceus with a single command. The released capsules support stateless provisioning, but there is already work in creating capsules that can do statefull, NFS (almost) root, and hybrid systems.
We have a user already running Perceus with RHEL capsules in HPC and another prototyping it for a web cluster solution.
Also, Warewulf has been known to scale well over 2000 nodes. Perceus limits have yet to be reached, but it can natively handle load balancing and fail over multiple Perceus masters. Theoretically the limits should be well beyond Warewulf's capabilities.
Version 1.0 of Perceus has been released (GPL) and now we are in bug fixing and tuning mode. We are in need of testers and documentation so if anyone is interested please let me know.
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