Open source component of SysOps stack based on both patents granted and pending; the stack provides a single platform from which to automatically perform the following operations across racks of heterogeneous servers:
- wipe drives
- probe hardware resources
- update BIOS, IPMI and RAID firmware
- install OS
- benchmark hardware resources along three dimensions: compute, storage and network
The open source component consists of:
- atftpd (tftp server)
- serves "lpxelinux.0" from builtin embedded file system
- ignores requests for all other files
- memtest86 (v4)
- meant to be invoked in a virtual machine
- output is redirected to serial console without having to pay the performance penalty associated with such redirection
- multiple instances may be running in parallel
- the compute+memory resources for each instance are provided by way of KVM on the host
- syslinux / lpxelinux.0
- all requests are made using http protocol
- asks for default config file using url ".../-@-/pxeReneo.cfg/"