HP Insight Cluster Management Utility - Manual (Page 5)

5.2.6 Customization...........................................................................................................57
5.2.6.1 RHEL autoinstall customization for nodes configured with Dynamic Smart Array RAID
(B120i, B320i RAID mode).............................................................................................58
5.2.7 Restrictions...............................................................................................................58
5.3 Backing up......................................................................................................................58
5.3.1 Backing up a disk from a compute node in a logical group.............................................58
5.4 Cloning...........................................................................................................................61
5.4.1 Preconfiguration........................................................................................................62
5.4.2 Reconfiguration.........................................................................................................63
5.4.3 Cloning Windows images..........................................................................................64
5.5 Node static info................................................................................................................64
5.6 Rescan MAC....................................................................................................................65
5.7 HP Insight CMU image editor.............................................................................................66
5.7.1 Expanding an image..................................................................................................66
5.7.2 Modifying an image..................................................................................................67
5.7.3 Saving a modified cloning image................................................................................67
5.8 HP Insight CMU diskless environments.................................................................................68
5.8.1 Overview.................................................................................................................68
5.8.1.1 Enabling diskless support in HP Insight CMU..........................................................69
5.8.2 The system-config-netboot diskless method....................................................................70
5.8.2.1 Operating systems supported...............................................................................70
5.8.2.2 Installing the operating system on the management node and the golden node.........70
5.8.2.3 Modifying the TFTP server configuration ...............................................................70
5.8.2.4 Populating the HP Insight CMU database.............................................................71
5.8.2.5 Creating a diskless image..................................................................................71
5.8.2.6 Creating a diskless logical group.........................................................................71
5.8.2.7 Adding nodes into the logical group....................................................................72
5.8.2.8 Booting the compute nodes.................................................................................73
5.8.2.9 Understanding the structure of a diskless image.....................................................74
5.8.2.10 Customizing your diskless image........................................................................74
5.8.2.10.1 files.custom...............................................................................................74
5.8.2.10.2 Using reconf-diskless-image.sh....................................................................74
5.8.2.10.3 Using reconf-diskless-snapshot.sh................................................................75
5.8.2.10.4 Templates and image file...........................................................................76
5.8.2.11 Best practices for diskless clusters........................................................................76
5.8.3 The HP Insight CMU oneSIS diskless method.................................................................76
5.8.3.1 Operating systems supported...............................................................................77
5.8.3.2 Enabling oneSIS support....................................................................................77
5.8.3.3 Preparing the HP Insight CMU management node.................................................77
5.8.3.4 Preparing the golden node.................................................................................77
5.8.3.5 Capturing and customizing a oneSIS diskless image..............................................78
5.8.3.5.1 Creating an HP Insight CMU oneSIS diskless image........................................78
5.8.3.5.2 Customizing an HP Insight CMU oneSIS diskless image..................................80
5.8.3.6 Manage the writeable memory usage by the oneSIS diskless clients.........................81
5.8.3.7 Adding nodes and booting the diskless compute nodes..........................................81
5.8.4 Scaling out an HP Insight CMU diskless solution with multiple NFS servers........................82
5.8.4.1 Comments on High Availability (HA)....................................................................84
6 Monitoring a cluster with HP Insight CMU....................................................85
6.1 Installing the HP Insight CMU monitoring client......................................................................85
6.2 Deploying the monitoring client..........................................................................................85
6.3 Monitoring the cluster........................................................................................................86
6.3.1 Node and group status...............................................................................................87
6.3.2 Selecting the central frame display..............................................................................87
6.3.3 Global cluster view in the central frame........................................................................88
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