Provisioning

We will be talking about provisioning in the computing sense and mostly related to just high performance computing. Although this can go pretty far as HPC spans most of computing.

Definition:

Bring some resource online for use in the HPC Cluster such as:

• Nodes
• Users
• Virtual Machines
• Storage

Outline

• Nodes Bare Metal
  • DNS
  • PXE
  • TFTP
  • IPMI
  • ILO
  • BIOS
  • BOOT Order
  • Provisioning Systems
    • ROCKS
    • OpenHPC
    • Cobbler
• Users
  • LDAP
  • Kerberos
  • NIS
  • Local Accounts
• Virtual Machines
  • Cloud
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
    • MS Azure
  • HyperVisor Stacks
    • ZenServer
    • Proxmox
    • kvm/libvirt
    • VmWare
    • MS HyperV