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Questions tagged [bare-metal]

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Bare metal or virtualize?

I am looking to upgrade servers and am trying to figure out a good plan. We currently have 4 servers: OpenBSD firewall/VPN server FreeNAS backup servers (local) that receives ZFS snapshots FreeNAS backup servers (remote) that receives ZFS…
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How to migrate a bare metal Linux installation to a virtual machine

I'd like to migrate a RHEL5 installation from a bare-metal installation to a virtual machine. I'm not very experienced when it comes to Linux backup and restore procedures, so I'm looking for advice on the best way to accomplish this. The…
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How does Bare metal provisioning to clients work with PXE

I'm trying to better understand how one would initiate the process of re imaging a number of client computer systems on a network. Eg, to reverse systems back to a base image each week. Each image would then be for example, windows 8 pre-configured…
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HP ProLiant DL360 G5 gets stuck at blank white screen (no beeps, no errors)

A few days ago, my server (Linux CoreOS) start running incredible slow with lots of failed services. Try #1: - I thought it was an OS issue so I decided to reinstall my Linux then I found out there is 1 (of 3) drive in my RAID5 failed. - When I…
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Optimising bare-metal hypervisor installation

what is the best way to install a bare metal hypervisor (i.e. to host multiple VM's)? I spoke to a friend and he is using a HP server to host all his VMs with VMware ESXi, but he installed the VMWARE esxi software on a flash card. He can then use…
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Network share Bare Metal Restore not seeing images

My 2012 Essentials R2 server is backed up to an ISCSI drive. Yesterday both disks in my RAID0 decided to die, so I am having to do a BMR from the backup. Steps I have taken: New RAID0 logical drive created with two new identical disks Mount ISCSI…
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Esxi hypervisor install: uefi or bios?

I recently bought Dell PowerEdge T430 server and I want to install on it ESXi 6.0. Since VMware now supports UEFI (from version 5.0) I want to ask how to install hypervisor? BIOS UEFI After install, changing bios/uefi settings in um... Bios will…
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Installing CoreOS on a single machine

How would I go about installing CoreOS on a single machine as the host OS? I have read "Installing CoreOS to Disk" and ran the coreos-install script from Debian and CentOS live CDs, but both seem to miss the -p argument for the lsblk command which…
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How to provision baremetal kuberenetes cluster using magnum with only one vlan?

There does not seem to be a guide that follows through on how to deploy a baremetal Kubernetes cluster using magnum. I got to the point of having the baremetal servers turn on and initiate the pxe request, however, the dnsmasq server does not…
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Expose Kubernetes cluster behind a pfSense

I installed a Kubernetes cluster on a Bare-metal sever. This server contains a Proxmox hypervisor, I have the following virtual machines a pfSense (192.168.9.254) two masters for the Kubernetes cluster (192.168.9.11, 192.168.9.12) two nodes for the…
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SBS 2008 Bare Bone Restore

Trying to do a Mock restore for SBS on a test machine. The machine does not see the Western Digital Essentials hard drive as a valid restore. The Drive is seen if I try to Install the OS, so I know the drivers are loaded. Was the drive removed…
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Bare metal: Server doesn't come up. Sometimes

I have a HP ProLiant DL160 G5 and a real strange problem: If the server is unplugged for several minutes, it comes up without any problems. If I gracefully shut it down, pressing the power button doesn't power it up again. Replugging the power cable…
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Automated Remote Bare Metal Recovery

I have a server (Windows 2008 R2) with a bare metal recovery point made using Windows Server Backup tools. Everything I've read about bare metal recovery points to needing to be physically at the server (to hit F8 or insert a recovery disk).…
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Server setup on bare metal: Services on VM vs services on bare metal(host) OS

I have a beefy linux server (32 GB RAM) with good harddrives. with one of my hosts. I run a lot of webapps which use varnish, nginx, unicorn app server, thin app server, redis, mongodb and postgresql. Now, I don't expect a huge amount of traffic to…
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Bare Metal Restore with Backup Exec 11d on Win 2003

So, I'm looking at a bare metal restore situation with my current setup. Not sure if this is possible, but looking at a hypothetical restore path to bounce off of with some Server Fault gurus ;). As of right now, our DC currently hosts our Exchange…
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