Re: Kickstart a GRID ready box - possible?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:26:02 +0200
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I have done a proof of concept on amazon with a system which had cfengine on it for automation, for doing the install (scp, untar, run the installer to get the home in the inventory). This was the database software install.
To get it in kickstart, the most obvious option is to use it in an RPM. RPM's are limited in size (nowadays, AFAIK it didn't had that in earlier versions), at the size of 2GB, which is too small for Oracle database & grid infrastructure.
Frits Hoogland
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On Sep 27, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Niall Litchfield wrote:
> You can put almost anything you want that can be scripted in a kickstart
> file. IIRC GI has a silent install option and cloning of GI is also
> scriptable
> On 27 Sep 2011 13:08, "z b" <zimsbait_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey List-ers,
>
> Without buying the Provisioning Pack, is it possible to create a
> kickstart image of a box that has the grid infrastructure installed
> and ready to configure?
>
> The results from the manuals, (yeah, I looked there first) suggest you
> can "partially" do this. You can do a binary only install, but you
> can't really get the grid up and running without doing a grid home
> clone.
>
> I'm getting ready to upgrade/move a lot of rac db's to new clusters,
> and I'm looking for ways to streamline the process. I would like to be
> able to create a "golden image" kickstart box, so most of the
> pre-requisites are already done when the sysadmins hand the boxes
> over.
>
> If anyone has experience doing this, I'd like to hear from you .
>
> Thanks.
> ZB
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