...so few months ago I was wondering which vendor to pick that has the best global delivery experience and deliver quality product.. after few weeks of research decided to go with Dell. There are few options for centralized management such as pushing images, backing up, restoring/re-installing servers for Dell servers using DRAC cards. KACE which recently was bought by dell is one option, Dell OpenManage seems another option with less options available. What are your thoughts / suggestions on centralized management solutions for Dell servers with DRAC cards?. Few things to keep in mind. Centralized solution and server wont be on the same network , but each will have internet access Drac cards come with Compact Flash cards Bandwidth may not be quite fast and latency might be higher when connecting to the centralized solution. Monitoring can be apart from the server maintenance solution as I already primarily use cacti/nagios/IMapper. appreciate help on this. Mehmet
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:29:38PM -0600, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
Centralized solution and server wont be on the same network , but each will have internet access Drac cards come with Compact Flash cards Bandwidth may not be quite fast and latency might be higher when connecting to the centralized solution. Monitoring can be apart from the server maintenance solution as I already primarily use cacti/nagios/IMapper.
You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3]. PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5] is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts. [1] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Gui... [2] http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/ [3] http://www.bacula.org/en/ [4] https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ [5] http://theforeman.org/
Sorry for top post, posting from bb. Spacewalk is the open source upstream of redhat satellite. Can be used for installation/provisioning and config management. Ties in well with puppet and func. On 2/20/10, Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:29:38PM -0600, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
Centralized solution and server wont be on the same network , but each will have internet access Drac cards come with Compact Flash cards Bandwidth may not be quite fast and latency might be higher when connecting to the centralized solution. Monitoring can be apart from the server maintenance solution as I already primarily use cacti/nagios/IMapper.
You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3]. PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5] is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Gui...
[2] http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/
-- Brandon Galbraith Mobile: 630.400.6992 FNAL: 630.840.2141
You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3]. PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5] is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts.
Any options that also handle Windows Server? -- Matt On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
Sorry for top post, posting from bb.
Spacewalk is the open source upstream of redhat satellite. Can be used for installation/provisioning and config management. Ties in well with puppet and func.
On 2/20/10, Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:29:38PM -0600, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
Centralized solution and server wont be on the same network , but each will have internet access Drac cards come with Compact Flash cards Bandwidth may not be quite fast and latency might be higher when connecting to the centralized solution. Monitoring can be apart from the server maintenance solution as I already primarily use cacti/nagios/IMapper.
You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3]. PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5] is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Gui...
[2] http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/
-- Brandon Galbraith Mobile: 630.400.6992 FNAL: 630.840.2141
Matt Kelly (mjkelly) writes:
You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3]. PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5] is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts.
Any options that also handle Windows Server?
A FreeBSD boot CD ? Joke aside, it seems that Puppet already has support for it, contrary to the FAQ: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#does-pupp... http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetWindows Foreman seems to be built on Puppet, as I understand. PXE is well supported: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722358(WS.10).aspx ... and to finish off, Bacula works like a charm on windows, including registry backups, provided you create the system image backup and schedule it.
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