Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-10 Thread Aaron Peeler
Dmitri, Just to add to Amit, comments. We use xCAT extensively here at ncsu. From provisioning end-user desktops and our hypervisors. xCAT very helpful when needed to install a chassis full of blades with esxi. As your installing xCAT You'll want to review

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-10 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Thank you, I hope we can make it work in our environment as well... I keep searching and reading xCat docs - here is good one - http://sumavi.com/books/xcat-administrators-guide. BTW, if you have any docs outside of xcat.org site, please share... At this point I'm looking for xCat overview

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-10 Thread Aaron Peeler
We use a single dhcp server/config on the private network for both the blades and vm nodes. In xCAT2 - there are globals set in the default /etc/dhcpd.conf and xCAT makes heavy use of the /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases files for adding nodes, etc. We typically have blades that are part of the xCAT

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-10 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Thank you. What version of xCat do you use? Since VCL supports xCat 2.x, is it safe to use latest xCat 2.6.10? Thanks. On Feb 10, 2012, at 11:27 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi Dmitri, SUMAVI link that you have is a real good one, I blindly followed it and then slowly things started to make

RE: VCL and xCat

2012-02-10 Thread Kumar, Amit H.
Hi Dmitri, We use xCAT 2.5.2; I am not a pro to say if xCAT 2.6.x will work. May be Aaron and his group could say more. Thank you, Amit -Original Message- From: dcheb...@gmu.edu [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 11:37 AM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-10 Thread Aaron Peeler
Yes, we're using the latest xCAT version. -A On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Kumar, Amit H. ahku...@odu.edu wrote: Hi Dmitri, We use xCAT 2.5.2; I am not a pro to say if xCAT 2.6.x will work. May be Aaron and his group could say more. Thank you, Amit -Original Message- From: