Re: XCP 64 bits ?

[Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>]

On 04/03/10 13:41, medhioub wrote:
> Thank you Vincent, Pasi and Ian for your answears and hoping that can
> you help me a little more with your advice :-)
>
> Let me explain more precisely my problem.
> We just installed a new cluster (32 servers with Nehalem CPU and 24 GB).
> To automate the deployment of XCP on multiple machines, we want to
> create an image of the installed software of XCP.
> P.S. we use Bright Computing as a cluster manager
> http://www.brightcomputing.com/
>
> Now we installed XCP in a physical machine and want to grab all the
> softwares (the hypervisor and the dom0) on an image that can be deployed
> automatically on the whole cluster using Bright Computing Cluster Manager.
>
> Any idea or advice ?

cloning XCP installation is not different than cloning a normal linux 
installation. everything is available as a hard disk through 
/dev/(s|h)da or directly as a linux path /, but the you need to 
customize everything after you cloned it to the other machine.

Just thinking on XCP specific things, you probably need to delete the 
cloned database, and have the first scripts rerun on the cloned machine 
(have a look at /etc/firstboot.d). But this is not trivial, and you have 
to ready to commit some time and effort to do that.

-- 
Vincent