XCAT Installation on Centos 7

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Base Level Setup

Setup naming and hosts file

Disable the firewall

Setup the software repos

Download CentOS

wget http://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/ftp.centos.org/7.9.2009/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-2009.iso

Define Compute image for provisioning

copycds ${iso_path}/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1908.iso (where ${iso_path} is directory of the iso)

Enable ssh during the installation on the compute nodes

Enable the time service (Chronyd)

Add a node to the installation

Check the rcons status

Set the nodes to pxeboot