Re: VCL running on Dell Hardware

2012-05-01 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Hi Arbin, I don't believe VCL is hardware specific, unless you need bare-metal provisioning (xCAT). Any hardware which is capable of running ESXi will work for VCL. With older hardware you may see some performance issues, but as a test-bed it will work fine. Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov

Re: VCL running on Dell Hardware

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Gardner
Arbin, My development platform is a Dell Optiplex 760 desktop. So it is likely that the servers you have will work. As Dmitri said, a greater limitation is that ESX needs to run on it. I am working on a server currently that does not have a supported RAID card and hence ESX will not run on it.

RE: VCL running on Dell Hardware

2012-05-01 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: Mark Gardner [mailto:m...@vt.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 1:21 PM To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: VCL running on Dell Hardware Arbin, My development platform is a Dell Optiplex 760 desktop. So it is likely that the servers

Re: VCL running on Dell Hardware

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Gardner
I created a second network that is only within ESX that the VMs use to communicate with the management node (which is also a VM). Mark -- Mark Gardner --