VCL Thin Clients

2012-01-16 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
Hello, I am wondering if anyone has successfully booted VCL via PXE boot to an thin client? Arbin Darren Sanders Information Technology Manager - Academic Computing Information Technology Services North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3033 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307

RE: VCL Thin Clients

2012-01-17 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:37 AM To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: VCL Thin Clients Arbin, Can you explain in more detail what you are asking about? I'm not following what you want to do. Josh On Monday January 16, 2012 7:10:05 PM Sanders, Arbin D wrote: Hello, I am

RE: VCL Thin Clients

2012-01-17 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
if you're really ready to pursue this. Josh On Tuesday January 17, 2012 11:24:12 AM Sanders, Arbin D wrote: Josh, I am wanting to change our labs PCs into thin clients. During this economic time, I am looking at other alternatives to keep our old machines running. It would be great

Re: VCL Thin Clients

2012-01-26 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
the sender and delete this email from your system. On 1/17/12 8:02 PM, Henry Schaffer h...@ncsu.edu wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu wrote: Josh, I am wanting to change our labs PCs into thin clients. During this economic time, I am looking

RE: icon on the desktop access to VCL

2012-02-08 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
I think this question was sparked from my idea. I was wondering if an VCL image could be used as a virtual desktop via PXE boot or some other boot process. After reading the posts, I might want to rethink that due to security reasons. I do like the aspect of having an basic image on the PCs

RE: VCL 2.2.3

2012-05-01 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
I also would like to try out 2.2.3. This would be perfect for NCCU's test bed. Arbin Darren Sanders   IT Manager – Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online  

RE: VCL running on Dell Hardware

2012-05-01 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
, that will relax the constraints on ESX-supported hardware. Mark On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu wrote: Has anyone been able to get this working? I am looking at creating a test bed with some older Dell Servers we have. ** ** *Arbin Darren Sanders

RE: VCL 2.2.3

2012-05-01 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
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RE: [DISCUSS] Graduation

2012-05-04 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
I would like to also approve the graduation of VCL. Sent from my Motorola Smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint! -Original message- From: Waldron, Michael H mwald...@email.unc.edu To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org, vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org

RE: Other Uses for VCL

2012-05-10 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
be used for this. --henry On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu wrote: All, ** ** I am apologize in advance for posting to both groups but I think each one has its own unique info and opinions. As NCCU goes into the new fiscal year, I am looking at acquiring

Cloud Service Providers

2012-05-14 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
Has anyone used Amazon, Rackspace, etc. services with VCL of thought about? Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online

RE: Cloud Service Providers

2012-05-14 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. From: Sanders, Arbin D [mailto:asand...@nccu.edu] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 7:36 PM To: 'vcl-dev

Using VMware as the Hypervisor

2012-05-15 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
I hope this isn't a stupid question, but how does VMware hypervisor know which image to load? Is the image just sitting there waiting to be used or does it load it from the image repository? Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street

RE: Using VMware as the Hypervisor

2012-05-15 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
for new request and copy the requested image to another place and change the VMX file and then call ESXI to register the Image. Best Regards Mani On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu wrote: I hope this isn't a stupid question, but how does VMware hypervisor know

Install of Management Node

2012-05-16 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
All, What packages are needed when installing CentOS for the management node? This will be my first time installing CentOS from scratch and I would like to know how you all install it. Thanks! Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil

Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-23 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
All, What is the number of VMs do you all run per VMware host? Is it limited to the RAM limitation for vSphere 5? How many purchase vSphere licenses? Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307

RE: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
with more than 10 working VM. But the most important thing is to watch the performance closely. You will get a feel for how many VM per host by experience. As always, your mileage may vary. Regards, Al Quiros Florida International University From: Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edumailto:asand

RE: [VOTE] Andy Kurth as PMC chair after graduation

2012-05-24 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
+1 Go Andy! Arbin Darren Sanders   IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online    CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
of 32GB. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu wrote: Alexander, What if I use the paid version of vSphere5? And I have 96 GB of memory? Could I get more than 20 VMs? Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University

RE: [VOTE] release VCL 2.3

2012-05-29 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
+1 Arbin Darren Sanders   IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online    CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may

RE: [DISCUSS] stop vote on RC1 and cut RC2

2012-05-31 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
Let's fix the issues and move to RC2. Arbin Darren Sanders   IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online    CONFIDENTIALITY: This email

Network Setup

2012-06-01 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
All, From the documentation, VCL has to have two networks, Private and Public. My question is can they be setup within VMware where the public IP can routed through the eth0 and get a DHCP address and the private IP can be routed through a vSwitch? Do all of you have two vlans provided by a