Physical Machine Reservations

2010-03-01 Thread Liz Wendland
Hi, I know that the ability to reserve physical machines using VCL exists. " VCL can also broker access to standalone machines such as a lab computers on a university campus." I see there is a provisioning module - Lab.pm. Are there any instructions on how to get this set up? Why is a "VC

Re: Physical Machine Reservations

2010-03-01 Thread Aaron Peeler
Hi Liz, Just to clarify there are two things mentioned here that I'd like to separate. One is the provisioning of physical machines, this would include using xcat.pm or some other provisioning module to load an image, capture an image and broker access. Today we've only done/supported xCAT,

Re: Physical Machine Reservations

2010-03-01 Thread Liz Wendland
Hi Aaron, Thanks for your excellent description of how this should work. That is very helpful. I hope you don't mind a couple more questions: * Why are there two SSL ports required? For Linux at least I believe that sshd can be restarted without severing current connections. * Why is the

Management node not checking in with the database

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Gardner
I have worked my way through the database installation, the web code installation, and am now nearly through http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Management+Node+Installationbut I never see the management node check in with the database as end of the page suggests. I have gone back and re

Re: Physical Machine Reservations

2010-03-01 Thread Aaron Peeler
Sure. Basically both of these are working with an existing campus environment which prevents remote root login over ssh. More detailed answers inline On 3/1/10 1:52 PM, Liz Wendland wrote: Hi Aaron, Thanks for your excellent description of how this should work. That is very helpful. I hope

Re: Management node not checking in with the database

2010-03-01 Thread Aaron Peeler
Hi Mark, Is vcld able to start on the management node? It's output will be writing to /var/log/vcld.log which will include in database connection issues. Aaron On 3/1/10 2:11 PM, Mark Gardner wrote: I have worked my way through the database installation, the web code installation, and am no

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2010-03-01 Thread Roger Herling
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Re: Esxi version

2010-03-01 Thread Ryan Johnson
After a cursory glance into this issue, it seems that the VIX api could be used to replace the functionality provided by VI perl toolkit which is currently used by VCL and no longer functions for free versions of ESXi 3.5up4+. Does this sound possible / is there anyone using a free version of ESXi