In part 4 of this series, we installed xCat.  Now its time to configure it.

But First...

But first, lets talk a little about how you interact with xCat.  xCat stores its configuration files in "tab"s - tables.  In the default case, these are sqlite tables, though some will try to convince you to change ...

In part 3 of this series, we got the management node set up to route traffic and generally properly configured.  Now its time to actually install xCat!

Choices

Many xCat guides recommend downloading the RPMs and manually installing those.  The benefit of this route is that you need no network connection to your management node for this ...

In part 2 of this series, I covered the network design - the last theoretical piece of design we need.  Now let's do some practical stuff!  In this section I'm going to cover base network setup and keepalived installation on the management node.

Prerequisites

For this I've assumed you already have a set ...

Welcome to part 2 of my series of posts on building the ACM VM cluster!  Part 1 covered the hardware and software that will be used in the cluster.  Part 2 is going to focus on network design.

Introduction

Typically in clusters there are two networks (usually represented by IP ranges, though sometimes actually ...

So I have a vision for the ACM systems - I'd like to make it so we are as redundant as possible and we can do updates to systems without having to take them offline.  The obvious answer to this is using VMs, in a cluster.  Fortunately, the ACM recently received a donation of the old DLMS ...

I intended to make the first post here be about the technology under the site and how to set up a similar site.  I will still write that one, but in the meantime a much more interesting problem has come up and I wish to share it with you.

This post is about the various ...