Dell PowerEdge C1100 - Manual (Page 3)

Cloud Training in a Box: Inexpensive and Reproducible Training Environments for Cloud Solutions
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Contents
Executive summary ..................................................................................................... 4
The Challenge ........................................................................................................... 4
Selecting a Platform ................................................................................................... 5
Is Virtualization a Possible Solution? ............................................................................. 5
Which Virtualization Platform? .................................................................................... 5
What type of Remote Access? ..................................................................................... 5
What Hardware? ...................................................................................................... 6
Implementation ......................................................................................................... 6
Outcome .................................................................................................................. 7
Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 7
To Learn More ........................................................................................................... 8
Appendix A: Sample kickstart installation script .................................................................. 9
Appendix B: Network definition files.............................................................................. 12
Appendix C: Virtual machine definition files .................................................................... 13
Tables
Table 1. Sample kickstart file ....................................................................................... 9
Table 2. defaultnet.xml: Revised definition for the default network ..................................... 12
Table 3. publicnet.xml: Definition for the public network .................................................. 12
Table 4. privatenet.xml: Definition for the private network................................................ 12
Table 5. vmdef.admin.xml: Definition file for the Admin Node ............................................ 13
Table 6. vmdef.node1.xml: Definition file for the first Compute Node ................................... 14
Table 7. vmdef.node2.xml: Definition file for the second Compute Node ............................... 15
Table 8. vmdef.installer.xml: Definition file for the optional installer VM ............................... 17