RE: Re: [VOTE][RESULT] graduation of VCL as a TLP
+1 Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: Josh Thompson [mailto:josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 4:28 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org; vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Subject: Fwd: Re: [VOTE][RESULT] graduation of VCL as a TLP -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FYI - -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [VOTE][RESULT] graduation of VCL as a TLP Date: Friday, June 15, 2012, 4:26:09 PM From: Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu To: gene...@incubator.apache.org The VOTE by Apache Incubator to propose to the board graduation of the VCL podling to a TLP has passed. Tally of votes is as follows: 5 +1 votes (3 binding, 2 non-binding) 0 0 votes 0 -1 votes Binding +1 votes: Jukka Zitting Kevan Miller Matt Hogstrom Non-binding +1 votes: Aaron Peeler Josh Thompson This VOTE thread for this can be found at http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator- general/201206.mbox/%3C3217657.HtVQX5eHGp%40treebeard%3E I will send the proposal to the board this weekend. Josh On Monday, June 11, 2012 2:02:47 PM you wrote: IPMC members, Given the positive feedback from Jukka Zitting and no negative feedback, I'd like to request a vote for the graduation of VCL as a TLP to be proposed to the ASF Board at the June board meeting. I've included the discussion email I sent last week as a reference. I'd like to close the vote on Friday morning, June 15th. This will allow the vote to be open for over 72 hours and allow enough time to get the resolution submitted to the board and on the agenda for the June meeting. Please reply with your vote. +1 yes, VCL should graduate 0 don't know -1 no, VCL should not graduate - please include why not Thanks, Josh Thompson PPMC member, ASF VCL -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [DISCUSS] graduation of VCL as a TLP Date: Thursday, June 07, 2012, 1:18:33 PM From: Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu To: gene...@incubator.apache.org IPMC members, The VCL project would like to graduate. We think we have fulfilled all of the requirements for graduation. We had a successful community graduation vote, including positive votes from 2 mentors. The result of that vote is in this email (mentors denoted by * in the list): http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vcl- user/201205.mbox/CAD7o_Xzkwd3ckZNWaDNPAhuJs9USKftgZcPhS=BNqpXsQhMivA@ mail.g mail.com We have prepared a board resolution that can be viewed on our wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/graduation-board-resolution.html There is one member listed in the initial member list (Dmitri Chebotarov) whose ICLA has been sent in but not yet processed. If something were to keep his ICLA from being processed, we understand that his name would need to be removed from the list before a vote is called for us to graduate. There was also a vote in the community to appoint Andy Kurth as our initial chair. The result for that vote is in this email: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vcl- dev/201205.mbox/%3CDD527FB1-35F4-474A-9BEB-77461F617B78%40amherst.edu% 3E Please provide any feedback on our charter. Also, let us know if there are any other issues that may need to be completed before we would be allowed to graduate. Thanks, Josh -- --- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. - -- - --- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/bmr0ACgkQV/LQcNdtPQMa+wCfUNkBTQvBQo6IqeDsL9OeK2dY p5cAnA1Kk1uIqT6NvYBluZgB/5jYEKjq =F4xk -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com
Network Setup
All, From the documentation, VCL has to have two networks, Private and Public. My question is can they be setup within VMware where the public IP can routed through the eth0 and get a DHCP address and the private IP can be routed through a vSwitch? Do all of you have two vlans provided by a physical switch? Any info would be helpful. Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online [cid:image001.png@01CD4029.62ED5450] http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=66100342#!/pages/Durham-NC/NCCU-Eagle-Technical-Assistance-Center-ETAC/249508718552?v=info [cid:image002.png@01CD4029.62ED5450] http://twitter.com/NCCUETAC CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __inline: image001.pnginline: image002.png
Re: Max Number of VMs per Host
How about other hypervisors? KVM limits? Arbin D. Sanders Sent from my Motorola Smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint! -Original message- From: Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org vcl-user@incubator.apache.org, vcl-...@incubator.apache.org vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Sent: Thu, May 24, 2012 17:54:59 EDT Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host This link may be helpful http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=2000935 On May 24, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Alexander Patterson alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu wrote: I'm not sure from what I have been reading, might want to contact your VMware Rep and see what they can do if you plan on upgrading to 5. WIth ESXI 4.1 Infrastructure limitations Some limitations in ESX Server 4 may constrain the design of data centers: Guest system maximum RAM: 255 GB Host system maximum RAM: 1 TB[ Number of hosts in a high availability cluster: 32 Number of Primary Nodes in ESX Cluster high availability: 5 Number of hosts in a Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster: 32 Maximum number of processors per virtual machine: 8 Maximum number of processors per host: 160 Maximum number of cores per processor: 12 Maximum number of virtual machines per host: 320 VMFS-3 limits files to 262,144 (218) blocks, which translates to 256 GB for 1 MB block sizes (the default) or up to 2 TB for 8 MB block sizes.However, on a VMFS Boot drive, it is usually very difficult to use anything other than 1 MB Block size With ESXI 5 there has been some changes to these limits Guest system maximum RAM: 1 TB Host system maximum RAM: 2 TB Number of hosts in a high availability cluster: 32 Maximum number of processors per virtual machine: 32 Maximum number of processors per host: 160 Maximum number of cores per processor: 25 Maximum number of virtual machines per host: 512 VMFS-3 is supported and has the same limits as before VMFS-5 however has a max volume size of 64 TB and a max file size of 2 TB - 512 B How much vRAM does a VMware vSphere Hypervisor license provide? vSphere Hypervisor license provides a vRAM entitlement of 32GB per server, regardless of the number of physical processors. vSphere Hypervisor can be used on servers with maximum physical RAM capacity of 32GB. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu wrote: Alexander, What if I use the paid version of vSphere5? And I have 96 GB of memory? Could I get more than 20 VMs? Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: Alexander Patterson [mailto:alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:17 PM To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host Hello, ESXI 5 is limit by licenses with the amount of ram you can run on each machine. The 8 GB vRAM limit is for the upcoming 5.0 free Hypervisor, the 4.x version had no such memory limits. VM makes you pay now if you want to use X amount of ram per host with the upcoming version. Making 4.1 I Free Version a much more attractive option to go with We have each of our blades running ESXI 4.1 with 16 Cores and 48 GB of ram and we have 20 VM's per blade but we give 1.5 GB of ram to each VM. More info here http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1014006 -Alex On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu wrote: I am planning on using a free version of vSphere 5 depending on the how many VMs I can get. I would like to get 50 VMs per host. Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. From: Dmitri Chebotarov [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:01 PM To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host Here is some info: http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p
Which version of Linux?
All, I am wondering what versions of Linux are you all running for your production management node and your development management node. Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online [cid:image001.png@01CD2EBA.260E2B70] http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=66100342#!/pages/Durham-NC/NCCU-Eagle-Technical-Assistance-Center-ETAC/249508718552?v=info [cid:image002.png@01CD2EBA.260E2B70] http://twitter.com/NCCUETAC CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __inline: image001.pnginline: image002.png
Other Uses for VCL
All, I am apologize in advance for posting to both groups but I think each one has its own unique info and opinions. As NCCU goes into the new fiscal year, I am looking at acquiring more hardware and software for NCCU VCL project. Do any of you all have other uses for VCL other than HPC and Virtual Desktops? Thanks in advance! Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online [cid:image001.png@01CD2E20.44BC8890] http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=66100342#!/pages/Durham-NC/NCCU-Eagle-Technical-Assistance-Center-ETAC/249508718552?v=info [cid:image002.png@01CD2E20.44BC8890] http://twitter.com/NCCUETAC CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __inline: image001.pnginline: image002.png
RE: icon on the desktop access to VCL
I think this question was sparked from my idea. I was wondering if an VCL image could be used as a virtual desktop via PXE boot or some other boot process. After reading the posts, I might want to rethink that due to security reasons. I do like the aspect of having an basic image on the PCs with nothing but Office, virus protection, and an VCL icon that an user would click on and authenticate with the credentials they used to login into the lab computer or Shibboleth. Arbin Darren Sanders Information Technology Manager - Academic Computing Information Technology Services North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3033 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) Want to know more about me.Click Here For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email from your system. -Original Message- From: Eric D Sills [mailto:edsi...@ncsu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 3:05 PM To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: icon on the desktop access to VCL For use in our production environment some authentication would be needed: - for any environment with licensed software we would need to be able to ensure that the terms of the license agreement were being satisfied - just for access to university resources would need to be able to show that resource was not being 'given' away However, would be highly desirable there to be only one login and even better if previous logins during same session would carry over.. e.g. I need to use matlab - click matlab icon and login, I'm done with matlab but now want to use solid works - would be ideal if didn't have to login to solid works but rather it still remembered I was authenticated from having logged into matlab. Would like for process that installs the icon to also install whatever other software is required to run the app (or ensure the other software already installed). e.g. ssh client and maybe X Windows server for Linux based app, or RDP client for Windows based app, etc. Also, I believe that to support icon on desktop type launch there would need to be reasonably high assurance that an instance of the app would be available. Would like to be able to specify that minimum of n instances of an app should be kept ready for new reservations - when available number falls below n AND idle resources are available (where idle would not count instances of images that are there to meet minimum requirements) reclaim an idle resource and load another instance of the app. Generally I expect n=2 or even n=1 would be sufficient to ensure app instances available. -Eric On Feb 8, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Josh Thompson wrote: I've been hearing interest in an icon on the desktop type of access to VCL. The idea being that you could have some kind of broker script/app that can be run which will interact with the VCL API to create a VCL reservation, wait on it to be deployed, and then connect to the reserved system (ideally without requiring the user to log in to the reserved system). That app could then just be launched through an icon to gain access to a VCL provisioned system. Several years ago, I wrote something along the lines of this in python/tk. That was more of a proof of concept and would need a good bit of work to be useful to others. I'm starting this thread to start gathering information on who is interested in this idea and what requirements you would have for it. I'd also like to know if anyone would be interested in helping with the development of it. So, if you have any interest in this, please reply to this thread with -requirements you would have -how you would envision it to work -any interest in development of it Thanks, Josh --- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __ __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __
