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authorGreg Blomquist <gblomqui@gblomqui.usersys.redhat.com>2008-07-14 01:05:44 -0400
committerGreg Blomquist <gblomqui@gblomqui.usersys.redhat.com>2008-07-14 01:05:44 -0400
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Adding QuickStart section
Starting Cloudmasterd documentation Other Changes include: * Fixing up some of the references to "repo machines"...changing to "Genome Appliance"
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@@ -13,27 +13,48 @@
</para>
<section id="genome-cloud-appliance">
- <title>Cloud</title>
+ <title>Cloud Appliance</title>
<para>
- The Host machine type is used to host Xen
+ The Cloud Appliance is used to host Xen
guests in the &PRODUCT; environment.
- </para>
- <para>
- Features:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>Virtualization (Either Xen or KVM)</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>&PRODUCT; tooling for managing the cloud</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="genome-RepoMachineType">
- <title>Genome</title>
+ </para>
+ <section id="genome-cloud-appliance-systemreqs">
+ <title>System Requirements</title>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>CPU</term>
+ <listitem><simpara>1GHz</simpara></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Memory</term>
+ <listitem><simpara>This depends on the number of cloud members you plan on hosting. We recommend 1.5G of RAM to start.</simpara></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>System architecture</term>
+ <listitem><simpara>A cloud appliance can be installed on either i386 or x86_64 architectures.</simpara></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Storage</term>
+ <listitem><simpara>This depends on how many cloud members you plan on hosting. We recommend 100G of hard drive space to start.</simpara></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ <important><simpara>Cloud Appliances should only be installed on a Physical Machine and not a Virtual Machine</simpara></important>
+ </section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Features</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Virtualization (Either Xen or KVM)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>&PRODUCT; tooling for managing the cloud</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ <section id="genome-appliance">
+ <title>Genome Appliance</title>
<para>
- Genome appliances are the center of development in the
- &PRODUCT; environment. In a nutshell they are the
+ The Genome Appliance is the center of development in the
+ &PRODUCT; environment. In a nutshell it is the
self-contained provisioning, configuration and artifact
- store. For this reason these machines are
+ store. For this reason Genome Appliances are
generally not considered volatile.
</para>
@@ -46,19 +67,50 @@
<note>
<title>Note</title>
<para>
- There was a time when Repo
- machines were able to be
+ There was a time when Genome
+ Appliances were able to be
created via <application><link
linkend="genome-GenomeBootstrap">genome-bootstrap</link>
</application>. This led to
several "chicken and the egg"
sorts of problems. For this
reason the method for
- provisioning Repo machines was
+ provisioning Genome Appliances was
switched to RPM.
</para>
</note>
- </para>
+ </para>
+
+
+ <section id="genome-appliance-systemreqs">
+ <title>Minimum System Requirements</title>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>CPU</term>
+ <listitem><simpara>1GHz</simpara></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Memory</term>
+ <listitem><simpara>512M RAM</simpara></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>System architecture</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ A Genome Appliance can be installed on either i386 or x86_64 architectures.
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Storage</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ This depends on how many distros you plan on hosting in cobbler. We recommend 50G of hard drive space to start.
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </section>
<section>
<title>Features</title>
@@ -101,14 +153,14 @@
</section>
<section>
- <title>Repo machine cloning</title>
+ <title>Genome Appliance cloning</title>
<para>
- The state of a particular Repo machine can be
+ The state of a particular Genome Appliance can be
described by the content stored under
/var/www/cobbler and /pub/git. Cloning a
- particular Repo is really just a matter of
+ particular Genome Appliance is really just a matter of
getting the correct bit from those locations
- onto a new Repo machine.
+ onto a new Genome Appliance.
</para>
<para>
@@ -155,7 +207,7 @@
</section>
<section id="genome-repo-machine-customization">
- <title>Repo machine customization</title>
+ <title>Genome Appliance customization</title>
<para>
The &REPORPM; is designed to get users up and
running with a known working configuration.
@@ -192,7 +244,7 @@
<para>
The reason this works
is because by default
- the Repo appliance's
+ the Genome Appliance's
<application>puppet</application>
external nodes script
includes two classes:
@@ -214,8 +266,8 @@
<application>puppet</application> classes matched with
an operating system (or more precisely, a
<application>cobbler</application> profile). The list
- of machines that can be provisioned from a given Repo
- machine can be found when using the <link
+ of machines that can be provisioned from a given Genome
+ Appliance can be found when using the <link
linkend="genome-GenomeBootstrap">genome-bootstrap</link>
wizard or the <link
linkend="genome-Genomed">genomed</link> UI.