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how to efficiently reinstall a physical server?
I have some phyiscal servers(os: centos6) for network quality testing purpose, any intent customer could apply one.
After testing finished, I have to reinstall the server for the next around.
for now, I utilize cobbler to reinstall os and manually configure it, but I didn't like this proceed. Is there any way to efficiently reinstall server?
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Use a looking glass instead of providing a server for testing.
Why not install some kind of hypervisor (proxmox, solusvm, virtualizer, etc.) and make it a hybrid dedi?
Consider using docker to automate your testing process, on top of virtualization suggested by @sanvit.
I would use a regular expression
Use LXD. You can script it so every time a test is complete to delete and spin up a new one fully configured.
Emulab can automatically restore an OS image onto a physical server, among other networking features. I don't know how it works, but it proves automated OS installation and configuration is possible.
You could take a full image backup with eg. Veeam and restore it over USB or PXE.
Use PXE. There are about 100 different tools out there for automating pxe