Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 Deployment Manual

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Chapter 5. Provisioning with Satellite345.3. Provisioning Scenarios Supported• New Installations — Starting with Satellite 5.3.0 it is possible to provision systems that have notpreviously had any operating system installed (also known as bare metal installations).• Virtual Installations — Satellite supports KVM, Xen fully-virtualized guests, and Xen para-virtualizedguests. Previously only Xen paravirtualized guests were supported as a virtualization type.• Re-provisioning — Both physical and guest systems can be re-provisioned with Satellite 5.3.0,provided that they've been registered to the same Satellite instance5.4. Overview of Preparing a Satellite for Provisioning1. Synchronize content - refer to the Satellite Installation Guide for details2. Optional: Manually setup a kickstart tree3. Create a Kickstart Profile4. Provision/reprovision machines5.5. Kickstart Trees And Software ContentYou must have at least one kickstart tree installed on your Satellite in order to use kickstartprovisioning. Satellite supports both automatic and manual kickstart tree installation.5.5.1. Automatically Installed Kickstart TreesAutomatic kickstart tree installation is a function of normal channel synchronization. For eachdistribution you intend to base kickstarts on, you must synchronize that distribution's base channelalong with its corresponding RHN Tools channel to your Satellite. If you are using a connectedSatellite, you will synchronize your Satellite with Red Hat's servers directly. If your Satellite isdisconnected, you'll need to obtain and sync from disconnected channel dumps (again available fromRed Hat's servers). Regardless of the mechanism, the act of synching the channel automaticallycreates a corresponding kickstart tree for that distribution.For example, if you want to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for x86 architecture, you would want tosync the rhel-i386-server-5 channel and it's corresponding rhn-tools channel labeled rhn-tools-rhel-i386-server-5.For more information on syncing content, refer to Section 6.2 of the Satellite Installation Guide.5.5.2. Manually Installed Kickstart TreesIf you want to use Satellite to kickstart a custom distribution, a distribution not supported by Red Hat,or a beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you need to create a corresponding kickstart tree. Toinstall a kickstart tree in one of these situations, you need to perform the following tasks:1. Obtain the installation ISO from wherever is appropriate for the distribution2. Copy the ISO to your satellite server and mount it to /mnt/iso3. Copy the contents of the ISO to a custom location. It is recommended that you create a directorywithin /var/satellite for all of your custom distros. For example, you might copy a RHEL