Re: [VOTE] Apache VCL Ready to Graduate

[Cameron Mann]

+1

Cameron Mann | Cybera Inc.

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Andy Kurth andy_ku...@ncsu.edu wrote:

 This vote is to determine if the Apache VCL community believes the
 project is ready to graduate from the incubator to a top level
 project.  Everyone in the community is encouraged to vote.  Please
 reply expressing one of the following:

 +1 : yes, Apache VCL is ready to graduate to a top level project
 0 : ambivalent
 -1 : no, Apache VCL is not ready to graduate to a top level project

 This vote will be closed on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 5:00 pm EST.  If
 this vote passes, the community will draft a board resolution and
 present it to the IPMC.

 Thank You,
 Andy Kurth

Re: openstack and VCL ?

[Cameron Mann]

Hi Aaron,

One of the things we're working on at Cybera is an EC2 provisioning module.
 We've also done a lot of work with OpenStack and our intent is for the
module not just to work with Amazon EC2 but any cloud that implements the
EC2 API, including OpenStack.  Right now it's very much in a proof of
concept state, but our intent is to open source it once some of the rough
edges are smoothed over.

We'll also be presenting a paper at the upcoming ICA CON 2012 on our work
so far.

Cameron

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Aaron Peeler aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu wrote:

 Hi Folks,

 I think Tony from ECU asked about this before.

 Has anyone worked with openstack http://openstack.org/ ?

 I think integrating openstack provisioning into the VCL framework
 would benefit VCL. It could also benefit openstack and their current
 users. From what I understand, Openstack has a large commercial base
 of users and could be a way to expose VCL to more commercial users.

 Unless I'm wrong, currently openstack doesn't provide a self-service
 interface for users to VDI or clusters, nor does it provide bare-metal
 loads.  VCL with xCAT could provide that for that community in a short
 time-frame.

 Is there anyone interested in investigating and working on an
 openstack provisioning module ?  I don't think it will take a huge
 amount of work, one would need to know openstack and how to add in a
 VCL provisioning module. I'd be willing to assist but would need
 someone to take the lead on it.

 Thoughts?

 I know this is a development question, but also felt this is big
 enough to include folks on the vcl-user list.

 Best,
 Aaron

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Switching from localdisk to networkdisk

[Cameron Mann]

Hello,

Currently our VM hosts (running ESXi) are setup to use localdisk with the
VM and data store paths on the host itself and the repository path on an
NFS share.  Currently we're looking to switch to using networkdisk instead.
 My first inclination was to see if simply using the old repository as the
new data store would be feasible.  It seems like this would be the case
except for the fact that the vmdk format used to store images in the
repository isn't supported by ESXi.  The obvious answer seems to be to
convert our repository images to the same format used for the data store,
but I was wondering if there was a better solution?

Thanks,
Cameron Mann