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A '''Disklessdiskless Sharedshared-root Clustercluster''' is a way to manage several machines at the same time. Instead of each having its own [[operating system]] (OS) on its local disk, there is only one image of the OS available on a server, and all the nodes use the same image. (SSI cluster = [[single-system image]])

The simplest way to achieve this is to use a NFS server, configured to host the generic boot image for the SSI cluster nodes. (pxe + dhcp + tftp + nfs)

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The additional abstraction layer between storage system and computing power eases the scale out of the infrastructure. Most notably the storage capacity, the computing power and the network bandwidth can be scaled independent from one another.

A similar technology can be found in the [[TruClusterVMScluster]] ([[Tru64OpenVMS]]-UNIX) in theand [[UnixTruCluster]] sector([[Tru64 UNIX]]).

The [[open-source license|open-source]] implementation of a Disklessdiskless Sharedshared-root Clustercluster is known as [[Open-Sharedroot]].

== Literature ==

* Marc Grimme, Mark Hlawatschek, Thomas Merz: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070126073113/http://www.redhat.com/magazine/021jul06/features/gfs_update/] ''Data sharing with a Red Hat GFS storage cluster''

* Marc Grimme, Mark Hlawatschek [https://web.archive.org/web/20071008115939/http://www.atix.de/downloads/shared-root-cluster.pdf] ''German Whitepaper: Der Diskless Shared-root Cluster'' (PDF-Datei; 1,1 MB)

* Kenneth W. Preslan: [http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/admin-guide/] ''Red Hat GFS 6.1 – Administrator’s Guide''

==References==

== External links ==

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* http://www.open-sharedroot.org/ - The homepage of Open-Sharedroot

* http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-sharedroot/ - The project page of Open-Sharedroot

* http://w3.biff.ch/node/465/ - Tutorial how to implement Open-Sharedroot

* http://www.open-sharedroot.org/documentation/demo-cluster - Ready-to-run cluster within a VMware environment

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