Am Mi, 31.01.2007, 21:43, schrieb isplist@xxxxxxxxxxxx: > Ok, might as well ask this... since I can't seem to find anything on it. > How > about just a central storage that can be split up into many small segments > so > that blades can boot over the network, then joint the GFS cluster? > > I mean, all I want to do is to remove the drives since they really aren't > being used. All of the work is being done on the GFS cluster once a > machine is > up and running. It barely does anything with it's drive other than the OS > of > course, even logging is all remote. > > Isn't there a simpler way of getting this done without having to get into > whole new technologies? All of the blades have PXE boot capabilities, > there > must be some simple way of doing this? Well, you can do SAN-boot only, of course. Activate the BIOS in your HBA(s) and install on the SAN. Might be a bit tricky, depending on your actual hardware, but it certainly works (with some tricks). Qlogic-cards need the QLA-failover option in the driver (deprecated in the kernel.org vanilla driver, but the qlogic.com driver still does it). I think I read the either RHEL5 or RHEL4U5 will enable DM-multipathing for the boot-partition. cheers, Rainer -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
