Methods for operating-system deployment to X-Architecture compute nodes
Before you deploy an operating-system image to an X-Architecture compute node, choose the right deployment method for the operating system your compute nodes.
Before you begin
Determine which of the following methods you will use to install an operating system on the X-Architecture compute node:
- ServerGuide deployment
- For information about using ServerGuide for Microsoft Windows, see the Installing Microsoft Windows using IBM® ServerGuide quick start guide PDF in Installing operating systems.
- ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit deployment
- For information about using the ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit, see the Installing Linux using IBM ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit quick start guide PDF in Installing operating systems.
- Operating system vendor deployment
- If you want to deploy VMware ESXi, RHEL, or RHEL Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), you can use the Deploy compute node images task to import the operating system to the management node and then deploy it to multiple X-Architecture compute nodes. For more information, see Using the Deploy compute node images task to deploy operating systems.
About this task
In addition to the preceding deployment methods, you can find installation instructions for some operating systems and compute nodes on the IBM website. For instructions related to the installation procedure for a specific operating system running on a specific compute node, complete the following steps.
Note: The specific instructions
for the operating systems also contain information about installing
those operating systems on a virtual machine.