SAN boot and dynamic auto-configuration?

aarcane

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Jul 28, 2015
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Is it possible at this time to configure a proxmox cluster such that a host machine can boot over the SAN (iSCSI or NFS) using a genericized, Read Only image, then once it boots, it gets its identity information via DHCP or TFTP or similar to know its hostname and any other essentials, then it automatically joins a configured cluster, creating it if for some reason it's the first machine in the cluster, and then starts running VMs pursuant to the cluster configuration?
 
Is it possible at this time to configure a proxmox cluster such that a host machine can boot over the SAN (iSCSI or NFS) using a genericized, Read Only image, then once it boots, it gets its identity information via DHCP or TFTP or similar to know its hostname and any other essentials, then it automatically joins a configured cluster, creating it if for some reason it's the first machine in the cluster, and then starts running VMs pursuant to the cluster configuration?
Short answer: no.

Longer answer: I will not say it is impossible, but nothing out-of-the-box. You will have to script everything along the way.