Nutanix, Inc.

Mengyang Li

Miao Cui

Jan Olderdissen

Jan Ralf Alexander Olderdissen

Sragdhara Datta Chaudhuri

Toms Varghese

Jaspal Singh Dhillon

Brian Finn

Brian Andrew Griffiths Finn

Examples described herein includes initialization of a computing node cluster. An example method providing a query request from an initialization application/service of a computing node for a default configuration management server identifier via a network, and receiving, from a network management server, an internet protocol address associated with the default configuration management server identifier. The example method further includes providing a configuration request from the computing node to the internet protocol address requesting configuration information, and receiving the configuration information at the computing node from a configuration management server associated with the internet protocol address.

Apparatuses and methods for zero touch computing node initialization

Systems for management of a large computing cluster. A set of computing nodes within the cluster are identified. The identified nodes are to be reimaged with an operating system image and parameters. One or more reimaging algorithms in the form of computer code are stored in a networked storage device within a storage pool that comprises the networked storage device and a plurality of local storage devices that correspond to respective individual ones of the set of computing nodes. An agent that can execute the reimaging algorithm code is configured to run on any one of the set of computing nodes, wherein the agent is further configured to retrieve reimaging data from a storage device that is within the storage pool. An agent running on a leader node initiates reimaging of a second node. The second node initiates reimaging of a third node. The third node reimages the leader node.

Massively parallel autonomous reimaging of nodes in a computing cluster

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Mengyang Li