> > I received a question concerning Red Hat and wanted to see what the opinions > > are of everyone here. > > > > "Which software is best to load the Redhat Hat Linux ES4 on 150-odd nodes > >from one cluster management node?" > > SystemImager vs. Rocks Avalanche (bittorrent-enhanced kickstart), I guess. SystemImager's more general-purpose (e.g. not limited to redhatoids, easily used for updating with up-to-the-minute patched images), but its "Flamethrower" distribution method (to make it vaguely throughput-competitive with avalanche) uses multicast and therefore depends on multicast working right and is generally a bit more brittle (it's 'casting, so the installs have to be synchronised). There's nothing stopping someone writing a bittorrent patch for systemimager I guess, to get the best of both worlds. http://www.rocksclusters.org/ http://www.systemimager.org/ -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
