Re: VCL IRC channel [mentors]

2011-01-05 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I created a channel on Freenode named #asfvcl. Mentors - I looked for any ASF guidelines on using IRC and couldn't find much. Is there anything we need to make sure we do? I set the topic to say it is only for support discussions and that any deve

Re: BladeCenter Hardware Requirements

2011-01-05 Thread Aaron Peeler
Not really. A lot of folks are using diff types of hardware. The folks using xcat are primarily using bladecenters. Most everyone has gone straight vmware ESX/ESXi. We have mostly bladecenter E chassis 2 Ethernet switch module 1 Management modules 2 Power modules 2 Cooling modules with HS21 or

BladeCenter Hardware Requirements

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Gardner
It seems like a lot of the VCL instances are running on BladeCenter hardware. I have a chassis and a few blades but I suspect I do not have enough I/O modules to install the VCL to it. Does anyone have a list of the hardware they are using so I can compare it with what I have? My config: BladeCen

Re: Linux question

2011-01-05 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron, For VCL's purposes - deploying images for short durations, LVM doesn't really provide any benefit. LVM adds a logical layer between the filesystem and the physical storage so you can do things like have a single partition span multiple di

Re: Linux question

2011-01-05 Thread Cameron Seay
To any who are interested, the open source tool "Clonezilla" works with LVM2 (not LVM1) very well. It may not be as robust as Partimage, but many people are using LVM now, so it is a solution. I'm still not clear on the benefits of LVM to be honest. Cameron On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Josh

Re: Linux question

2011-01-05 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron, partimage cannot handle partitions installed under LVM. You need to install it with ext3 directly. Josh On Tuesday January 04, 2011, Cameron Seay wrote: > I am trying to capture a hard drive image with Partimage. The only problem > is I