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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I do that as well with NetApp. I store the ISO install images along with the channel packages from Oracle for OracleLinux that you need to sync with their
repo sync script and then Spacewalk’s repo. This essentially makes a 3<sup>rd</sup> copy of the base install data, 2 copies of patches. Run a weekly de-dup and you save a bunch of capacity and the luxury of an NFS install from fast storage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pierre Casenove<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 25, 2011 1:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] /var/satellite on NFS mount<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Thanks a lot for the feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I just have to install everything now<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 00:48:46 -0500<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:sabujp@gmail.com">sabujp@gmail.com</a><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] /var/satellite on NFS mount<br>
> <br>
> We do and it works fine. We have about 250 clients and growing.<br>
> <br>
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Pierre Casenove <<a href="mailto:pedro109@hotmail.com">pedro109@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Hello,<br>
> > I'm planning to deploy a spacewalk server to manage approx 400 clients<br>
> > (centos and fedora).<br>
> > I'm currently sizing the server and I was wondering if it was possible to<br>
> > store the rpm packages on a NFS share? The spacewalk server would be the<br>
> > client of the share of course.<br>
> > I think it's a good trade off between internal disks (used for Oracle XE and<br>
> > the cache) and storing on a SAN (too expensive)<br>
> > Thanks in advance,<br>
> > Pierre<br>
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