Hello,
I am reading through the documentation for xCAT in VCL but was a little
confused on the purpose xCAT has here.
Is xCAT being used for provisioning VM hosts like VMware to then get managed by
a separate VCL server or does VCL use xCAT to create servers that would be used
for VCL guests?
xCAT is only used within VCL to deploy bare-metal machines. The VM
deployment functionality of xCAT isn't used at all. VCL can deploy bare
metal machines for user reservations. It's pretty rare nowadays to deploy
end user reservations on full bare-metal machines, but it's still useful.
For larg
Thanks for that information Andy.
My current hangup is this part of the process in your list:
* Add the computer to xCAT and get things configured so xCAT can install and
properly configure it (this is no easy feat)
I was thinking (as you mentioned) that xCAT would make a VMware host which
coul
