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Chapter 11. Bare Metal Installation
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Example: Section 11.3.18, “Example CentOS 6.x Kickstart File”
• Ubuntu
Docs: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/i386/automatic-install.html
Example: Section 11.3.20, “Example Ubuntu 12.04 Kickstart File”
11.2.1. Limitations of Kickstart Baremetal Installation
When this feature is used, the following are not supported:
• Use in advanced zones is not supported. Use in basic zones only.
• CloudPlatform storage concepts: primary storage, secondary storage, volume, snapshot
• System VMs: SSVM, CPVM, VR
• Template copy or template download
• VM migration
• Multiple NICs
• Using host tag for allocating host, capacity (cpu, memory) specifying in service offering
• A stopped VM (the OS running on host) can only start on the host it was most recently on
11.3. Provisioning a Bare Metal Host with Kickstart
Follow the steps in all the following sections in order.
11.3.1. Download the Software
You will need the following:
• Citrix software installation file CloudPlatform-VERSION-N-OSVERSION.tar.gz. Available at https://
www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/.
You will need a MyCitrix account
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• PXE bootable kernel and initrd for each OS you want to make available for use on bare metal hosts
• NFS server
• (Optional) If using security groups, get http://download.cloud.com/support/samsung/
security_group_agent-1.0-1.noarch.rpm and the packages it depends on: python-cherrypy, ipset,
and libmnl. For more information, see Section 11.3.9, “Set Up the Security Group Agent (Optional)”.
11.3.2. Set Up IPMI
The procedure to access IPMI settings varies depending on the type of hardware. Consult your
manufacturer's documentation if you do not already know how to display the IPMI settings screen.
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http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/publicindex.asp?destURL=%2FEnglish%2FmyCitrix%2Findex.asp%3F