There are many baremetal frameworks available in market today. These baremetal frameworks help ease the work of a cluster/datacenter administrator by automating the deployment of operating systems and other software onto the individual machines in a datacenter. These frameworks differ from each other on several aspects like price, stability, maintainability, feature support and performance. As a result, it becomes difficult to choose the best framework which suits one’s needs. This study aims at helping the administrator in choosing the appropriate framework based on their needs by providing a comparison of these frameworks with a main emphasis on Emulab and OpenStack Ironic. Acknowledgements: This material is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under awards CNS-1042537 and CNS-1042543 (PRObE), by Intel as part of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing (ISTC-CC), by gifts from Yahoo!, APC, EMC, Facebook, Fusion-IO, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, NetApp, Oracle, Panasas, Riverbed, Samsung, Seagate, STEC, Symantec, and VMware. We thank the member companies of the PDL Consortium for their interest, insights, feedback, and support.
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