A little bit on last week's ClusterVision training. I've decided I quite like CVOS. It's a nicely constructed system for doing image management. Of course, I have not much to compare it to, (e.g. OSCAR, Rocks).

The trinity tool manages nodes' images, the DHCP server and named is basic, but easy to use.

A number of things, like power cycling nodes and running commands across the cluster are neatly sorted out (and one should never undervalue a simple thing which is done well).

However, it's clear that we're running into a lot of problems because CV moved wholesale to 64bit images and this does not work will when the OS has to be 32bit.

This is the problem we have - which requires the rather ugly patching in of a 64bit kernel to allow the image deployment to take place. In the end the installer was not converted back to 32bit. This isn't a disaster, of course, but demonstrates that some painting into a corner has happened...

I'll post my notes from the training session as a comment to this post.