[jira] [Updated] (VCL-539) Using VCL to provision POWER7 environment

2011-11-18 Thread Sunil Venkatesh (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-539?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Sunil Venkatesh updated VCL-539: Attachment: (was: partimageng_pm.diff) Using VCL to provision POWER7 environment

[jira] [Updated] (VCL-539) Using VCL to provision POWER7 environment

2011-11-18 Thread Sunil Venkatesh (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-539?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Sunil Venkatesh updated VCL-539: Attachment: Provisioning the POWER7 blades.docx partimageng_postscript.diff

[jira] [Updated] (VCL-539) Using VCL to provision POWER7 environment

2011-11-18 Thread Sunil Venkatesh (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-539?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Sunil Venkatesh updated VCL-539: Attachment: (was: Provisioning the POWER7 blades.docx) Using VCL to provision POWER7

[jira] [Updated] (VCL-539) Using VCL to provision POWER7 environment

2011-11-18 Thread Sunil Venkatesh (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-539?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Sunil Venkatesh updated VCL-539: Attachment: (was: partimageng_postscript.diff) Using VCL to provision POWER7 environment

[jira] [Updated] (VCL-539) Using VCL to provision POWER7 environment

2011-11-18 Thread Sunil Venkatesh (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-539?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Sunil Venkatesh updated VCL-539: Attachment: (was: web_portal.diff) Using VCL to provision POWER7 environment

Re: Virtualization on POWER7

2011-11-18 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
I have re-uploaded the files with the Grant license to ASF for inclusion in ASF works option selected. Please let me know if you have problems in integration. PS- Changes to database are mentioned in the attached documentation. Regards, Sunil On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Kevan Miller

[jira] [Created] (VCL-539) Using VCL to provision POWER7 environment

2011-11-17 Thread Sunil Venkatesh (Created) (JIRA)
(frontend) Environment: POWER 7 as compute node Reporter: Sunil Venkatesh Fix For: 2.3 This JIRA issue addresses changes done to different parts of VCL code to support provisioning a Power 7 instance.Parts of code that are affected are - partimage script, VCL

[jira] [Updated] (VCL-539) Using VCL to provision POWER7 environment

2011-11-17 Thread Sunil Venkatesh (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-539?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Sunil Venkatesh updated VCL-539: Attachment: Provisioning the POWER7 blades.docx partimageng_postscript.diff

[jira] [Updated] (VCL-539) Using VCL to provision POWER7 environment

2011-11-17 Thread Sunil Venkatesh (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-539?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Sunil Venkatesh updated VCL-539: Fix Version/s: (was: 2.3) Using VCL to provision POWER7 environment

Re: Virtualization on POWER7

2011-09-14 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
PM, Sunil Venkatesh suni...@umbc.edu wrote: Aaron, We would certainly be targeting the development towards the larger VCL community. But, this development is possible when the PowerVM package is made available. I would assume a module that is similar to the existing KVM module should

Virtualization on POWER7

2011-09-13 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
Dear all, As informed by Dr. Yesha, we @ UMBC are working on provisioning virtual nodes from the POWER7 blade. And, I wanted to update regarding the restrictions that I have come across in achieving the same. Virtualization with RedHat EL (RHEL) is not possible on POWER7 - 1. Latest version

Power7 Virtualization

2011-08-22 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
Dear all, Is there a way to perform virtualization or run a hypervisor on the Power7 architecture using the functionalities provided by VCL currently? Both Vmware and vbox mostly support the x86 architectures, however I didn't come across a mention of support for Power7 or related architecture

Re: [VCL 2.2.1] [Power7] Problem with image reservation

2011-08-04 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
using xcat's rcons to look at the console. Aaron On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Sunil Venkatesh suni...@umbc.edu wrote: Hi Josh, So, I was able to get the VCL to capture restore the images on to the Power7 blade without any errors. The VCL web portal shows the Power7 node being

Re: [VCL 2.2.1] [Power7] Problem with image reservation

2011-07-22 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
, On Thursday July 07, 2011, Sunil Venkatesh wrote: Thanks Josh. My professor was asking about the details of VCL workshop in NC. Are you aware of these details? The workshop is hosted by NCSU. It takes people from an introduction to VCL to actually installing and managing

Re: [VCL 2.2.1] [Power7] Problem with image reservation

2011-07-07 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
Thanks Josh. My professor was asking about the details of VCL workshop in NC. Are you aware of these details? Please bare with my comments inline. On 7/7/11 11:13 AM, Josh Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday July 05, 2011, Sunil Venkatesh wrote: Hi Josh

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-30 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
Hi Josh/Prem, I was trying to get xcat working with the PPC. However, I couldn't find the partimage-ng binary on the ramdisk. Is there any place I could find this package? I have the partimage binaries that I downloaded off a website, but couldn't find partimage-ng in that package. I am using

Re: [VCL 2.2.1] [Power7] Problem with image reservation

2011-06-22 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
at 3:13 PM, Sunil Venkatesh suni...@umbc.edu wrote: Josh, I have reached a point where I am able to boot the ppc using the statelite images created using genimage. But, I was wondering how significant the following command is. nodeset nodename image I got the same error that Prem had

Re: [VCL 2.2.1] [Power7] Problem with image reservation

2011-06-21 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
your blades. Josh On Monday June 13, 2011, Sunil Venkatesh wrote: Josh, Again, Thank you for your valuable inputs. I have got to the point where I can get the compute node to boot using the stateless images. I had to manually configure the netboot since we already had a DHCP server which

Re: [VCL 2.2.1] [Power7] Problem with image reservation

2011-06-13 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
the primary postscript. I do remember that in the partimageng.pm module, I had it add the partimageng postscript. So, you'll really have to start digging through how the xcat postscript system works. Josh On Tuesday June 07, 2011, Sunil Venkatesh wrote: Josh, Is there any place I could find some

Re: [VCL 2.2.1] [Power7] Problem with image reservation

2011-06-07 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
. When the compute node comes up, it uses PXE to ask the management node how to boot. The management node tells it to boot off of disk. I hope that clarifies how the system works. If any of it is unclear, please ask for further clarification. Josh On Wednesday June 01, 2011, Sunil Venkatesh

Re: [VCL 2.2.1] [Power7] Problem with image reservation

2011-06-01 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
, please ask for further clarification. Josh On Wednesday June 01, 2011, Sunil Venkatesh wrote: Josh, I had one more clarification. partimage binaries run in the management node to capture an (stateless) image from the compute node right? In that case, is there a need for these binaries to go

[VCL 2.2.1] [Power7] Problem with image reservation

2011-05-19 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
just assuming the groupings of Images and Computers are correct, is there anyway I could verify the same. Also, if there is any reference to how the grouping need to be done, please let me know of the same. Please do correct me if there is anything wrong with the system setup. Regards, Sunil