How to give the user enough priviledge to reserve many machines at the same time

2010-01-12 Thread yu267155364
I build a VCL environment recently. One problem I meet is I can't reserve second machine after I reserving first one, even I am administrator. Is there any way can reserve multiple machines? Only way I discover now is that adding sub-image into one image. Thanks, Xianqing

How to balance the workload on different blades

2010-01-21 Thread yu267155364
To whom it may concern: Currently I am running ESX 3i servers on 7 blades. My VCL has 50 virtual machines can be allocated. My question is that how to balance the workload on different blades? For instance, 7 virtual machines have been reserved, in order to get best performance, how to

Re: How to balance the workload on different blades

2010-01-26 Thread yu267155364
Hi, Do you know where is the code VCL decides which computer will be used for reservation, and how this decision is being made? I am still trying to optimize the workload for now. Xianqing -- From: Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu Sent:

Re: How to balance the workload on different blades

2010-01-27 Thread yu267155364
Josh, What I want to do is that make the workloads on each blade are equal. For instance, there are 6 virtual machines running in the system which has 6 blades, I hope VCL can select a computer which belong to a host that has the lowest current workload. So in the end, each virtual machine

The modified code for randomly choosing computer for the reservation

2010-02-22 Thread yu267155364
Hi, I insert my code to the function allocComputer in the utils.php. The main function of my code is randomly pick up a machine from the computer array and return it to the caller. The reason is that I want to distribute the reserved virtual machine to different blades, therefore balance the

How to disable cache

2010-06-14 Thread yu267155364
I am working on deploying VCL code. And I know virtual machine caching mechnism, which will boot VM before user making reservation, is useful. However, I want to disable the VM caching mechnism so I can develop some specific provisioning module. Is there any way can disable the caching

Re: Short question - VCL backend

2010-06-18 Thread yu267155364
Hi VCL team and Justin, I am Xianqing, and NC state unviersity student. I just finish the project which porting the VCL to EC2. What I am doing is added the new provisioning module ec2.pm and modify 5 lines of vcl code in image.pm. The new module will use the EC2 api to manage virutal

Re: Short question - VCL backend

2010-06-21 Thread yu267155364
-- From: Justin Duperre jdupe...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 11:11 AM To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Short question - VCL backend Hello Xianqing, This sounds really cool! I am actually in the process of setting up a