Question about provisioning new hosts

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I have a question with regard to creating new hosts.

I have a large, global network and I'm wanting to create hosts for my
group but we don't own the corporate DHCP and DNS infrastructure. I
have static IPs for any new host that will be provisioned – is it
possible to use this data when spinning up new endpoints?

I guess I'm not clear on how this would work to provision a bare metal
server in a remote datacenter. Will it still require PXEboot or what
is the best way to do that type of deployment?

Thanks!

Bryan

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Bryan,

Bare metal will require some sort of PXEboot environment to provision
unless you have access to IPMI that allows you to mount a remote ISO or
something and do manual deployments.

I've convinced our infrastructure team to set me up with native vlans on my
provisioning VLAN then i run discovery image to discover new physical
machines and provision to target VLAN.

··· On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 8:41:34 AM UTC-5, Bryan Arenal wrote: > > I have a question with regard to creating new hosts. > > I have a large, global network and I'm wanting to create hosts for my > group but we don't own the corporate DHCP and DNS infrastructure. I > have static IPs for any new host that will be provisioned -- is it > possible to use this data when spinning up new endpoints? > > I guess I'm not clear on how this would work to provision a bare metal > server in a remote datacenter. Will it still require PXEboot or what > is the best way to do that type of deployment? > > Thanks! > > Bryan >
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> Bryan,
>
> Bare metal will require some sort of PXEboot environment to provision
> unless you have access to IPMI that allows you to mount a remote ISO or
> something and do manual deployments.
>

there is another option using bootdisk plugin, or via using the pxe less
discovery image that Lukas is working on, probably will be demoed in the
next few days.

PXE with dhcp is by far the easiest way to achieve large scale provisioning
/ automation.
Hope this helps,
Ohad

··· On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Byron Miller wrote:

I’ve convinced our infrastructure team to set me up with native vlans on
my provisioning VLAN then i run discovery image to discover new physical
machines and provision to target VLAN.

On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 8:41:34 AM UTC-5, Bryan Arenal wrote:

I have a question with regard to creating new hosts.

I have a large, global network and I’m wanting to create hosts for my
group but we don’t own the corporate DHCP and DNS infrastructure. I
have static IPs for any new host that will be provisioned – is it
possible to use this data when spinning up new endpoints?

I guess I’m not clear on how this would work to provision a bare metal
server in a remote datacenter. Will it still require PXEboot or what
is the best way to do that type of deployment?

Thanks!

Bryan

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Thanks, Ohad. I don't know if PXEboot/DHCP is an option for us as
we'd need to have the ability to provision on a global scale and we
don't have dedicated VLANs available. But I'll definitely check out
the bootdisk plugin and Lukas's discovery image as well.

Thanks again!

Bryan

··· On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Ohad Levy wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Byron Miller wrote: >> >> Bryan, >> >> Bare metal will require some sort of PXEboot environment to provision >> unless you have access to IPMI that allows you to mount a remote ISO or >> something and do manual deployments. > > > there is another option using bootdisk plugin, or via using the pxe less > discovery image that Lukas is working on, probably will be demoed in the > next few days. > > PXE with dhcp is by far the easiest way to achieve large scale provisioning > / automation. > Hope this helps, > Ohad >> >> >> I've convinced our infrastructure team to set me up with native vlans on >> my provisioning VLAN then i run discovery image to discover new physical >> machines and provision to target VLAN. >> >> On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 8:41:34 AM UTC-5, Bryan Arenal wrote: >>> >>> I have a question with regard to creating new hosts. >>> >>> I have a large, global network and I'm wanting to create hosts for my >>> group but we don't own the corporate DHCP and DNS infrastructure. I >>> have static IPs for any new host that will be provisioned -- is it >>> possible to use this data when spinning up new endpoints? >>> >>> I guess I'm not clear on how this would work to provision a bare metal >>> server in a remote datacenter. Will it still require PXEboot or what >>> is the best way to do that type of deployment? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Bryan >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Foreman users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to foreman-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Foreman users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to foreman-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.