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OpenCompute Winterfell RHEL/CentOS PXE boot over serial console
The main issue with installing OS’s on these Winterfell servers is the complete lack of video card :) Your only option is serial console using the USB > Serial header adapter. So the task is to install RedHat or CentOS (or other RHEL style OS’s) via PXE, with serial console only access. To do this, […]
Tags: linux, OCP, opencompute, pxe, Winterfell
Posted in KVM, Linux, Open Stack, OpenCompute, Virtualization | 1 Comment »
ESXi 5.1 serial console based (headless) kickstart
As you saw in my previous post, it takes a little work to get an Open Compute Platform (OCP) server to install ESXi 5.1. The main reason being the lack of video card, the second reason being that only “old people” know serial :) Keep in mind, my OCP servers (Hyve) have three interfaces, eth2 […]
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Installing ESXi over serial console (headless, no video card)
I ran into a unique scenario where I had a server to install ESXi on that had no video card (maybe open compute style?). That being said, I figured that PXE installation would be the easiest method. First lets look at the PXE installation method of installing ESXi… Server boots, grabs DHCP address then downloads […]
Tags: esxi, opencompute, pxe, quanta, windmill
Posted in OpenCompute, Virtualization, vmware | 3 Comments »