[rhos-list] Installing Openstack Essex on isolated RHEL 6.2 cluster

[Paul Robert Marino]

Derrick
you seem to have crossed the message streams here so im going to
respond in the original chain

Well if you have Satellite already absolutely by all means use it!
Spacewalk is cool for managing other distros like Fedora, Cent OS,
Suse, Scientific Linux but if you have a choice for RHEL use
Satellite.
Also if you are using it for educational purposes in a university,
continuing education, or internal training environment, Spacewalk
might also be useful to teach your students how to configure and use
it because the skills would directly apply to administrating future
versions of Satellite and SUSE Manager (Novels Satellite Clone built
on Spacewalk).


The Essex packages are a different channel than the Folsom packages.
Unfortunately I'm not sure if that channel is still available which
may explain why you don't see them.






On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Derrick
>
> Satellite can do it easily be used to deploy it and manage the
> configuration files, but be warned Satellite still doesn't have full
> integration with OpenStack yet nor does its upstream project
> Spacewalk. so you wont be able to effectively use it to manage the
> OpenStack cluster itself. what that means is you don't want to use the
> Satellite built in VM provisioning because it will create them without
> OpenStacks knowledge, also there is no Glance, or Cinder integration
> in Satellite yet either. I have been testing with spacewalk and would
> gladly share the information Ive put together so far on the subject.
>
> Ive work at large companies that used Satellite in the past and am
> currently using Spacewalk and have been actively involved with the
> Spacewalk community. Based on my experience I can tell you this both
> are great pieces of software and I would go so far to say they are
> really required for any enterprise environment with more than 100
> servers. That being said Spacewalk cant directly sync from RHN
> although people have done it effectively through middle ware its not
> officially supported, so if you aren't willing to put the effort in to
> get bleeding edge software to work or your business requirements force
> you to get support Satellite is the right way to go.
>
> if you don't want to pay for Satellite or go through the effort of
> setting up a spacewalk server you have 3 other options.
>
> mrepo is just a simple repository  mirror that can mirror RHN channels
>
> Pulp can also mirror RHN and can do kickstarts but is more complicated
> than mrepo
>
> Finally there is the option of using SAM should be able to act as a
> RHN as well effective proxy
> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Subscription_Asset_Manager/
> . I be leave its already included with the standard RHEL support
> license. Note I'm not sure about SAM's capabilities with OpenStack,
> also I wouldn't suggest it for environment that are mission critical
> or require change control because it wasn't really designed for it the
> way Satellite was.
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Perry Myers <pmyers at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 01/25/2013 01:19 PM, Derrick H. Karimi wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>      My organization has a satellite RHN server.  Our RHEL 6.2 cluster
>>> does not have direct internet access.  How can I get the OpenStack essex
>>> preview to work in this environment?
>>
>> Hmm...  I would assume it's possible to have a satellite server mirror
>> from an eval channel and that should solve your issue.  But I'm not an
>> expert on RHN/Satellite so I've cc'd a few folks who are
>>
>> Cliff/Todd, any thoughts?
>>
>> As an aside, I happen to be based in Pittsburgh (I see that you're from
>> CMU) :)
>>
>> Perry
>>
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