jedi4ever/veewee — Issue #172: add veewee idrac provider
Author: jedi4ever
Created: 2011-11-27 09:49:28+00:00
State: open
Labels: Feature Request

Until now, veewee only works with virtual machines.

To make it work with physical machines, we need to resort to the ipmi or remote console capabilities of the hardware.
An example implementation could be with iDrac (Dell Console).

- The idea is to mount the local iso file over the network via the remote console
- then issue the bootsequence through vnc (like in fusion and kvm implementation)
- the preseed URL needs to be configurable when we do this over the internet: our local webserver will not be reachable by it's own IP address
- after the first install, ssh is available , so we need a way to determine that IP address to remote ssh into the machine we created.

For the iDrac vnc interaction this might help:

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- [Ruby iDrac console launcher](https://github.com/jasongill/idrac-kvm)

Not sure if we can automate the virtual media:

- [example on newservers.com to boot virtual media iso](http://newservers.com/language/en/documentation/faq-iso-via-idrac.html)
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