Thanks Josh. Has anyone else looked into this at all?
Adam > -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Thompson [mailto:josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:47 AM > To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Hosted back-end servers > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Adam, > > I don't think anyone has tried something like that. It might be doable, but a > little tricky, if only using VMs. I don't think it would work if you wanted > to do bare metal installs. The main gotcha would be handling the VCL private > network. VCL uses a private network to push images around control the > nodes > (both VM hosts and VMs). Typically, VCL is set up with all machines having > two NICs. We have set it up with machines having only one NIC, but you > have > to do a few extra things to make that work. > > We'd like to get to the point of only requiring one NIC in each machine with > the goal of being able to just take some old lab machines and run a VCL > cluster on them so that the barrier to entry of using VCL would be much > lower. > However, there are some other things that are taking a higher priority right > now; so, it may be a while before we can get to that. > > If you're really interested in trying out this hosted solution, let us know > more of what networking options are available and what kind of control you > get > over DHCP. Then, we may be able to tell you what you'd need to do to set it > up. > > There's also a consortium of colleges and universities that have some kind of > contracted out VCL service. I don't know much about it other than what I've > read on their blog (http://labstor.blogspot.com/), but that might be > something > else to look in to. > > Josh > > On Monday January 31, 2011, Hechler, Adam wrote: > > Has anyone ever tried running (or even tested) a VCL using a hosted > > back-end server solution? I've been asked to look into whether or not a > > service like this would be acceptable for a VCL test environment. The > > specific service I was asked to look at was at 1&1 > > > (http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/CloudDynamicServer;jsessionid=7C845E > F3FD > > 688FF8D42BD7F1B4D822DC.TCpfix141a?__frame=_top&__lf=Order- > Tariff&linkOrigin > > =CloudDynamicServer&linkId=hd.nav.domains) > > > > Has anyone even investigated this option? > > > > Adam > - -- > - ------------------------------- > Josh Thompson > VCL Developer > North Carolina State University > > my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAk1IDtcACgkQV/LQcNdtPQPv5wCfWNSeV+RmpovngvuYXCI99 > 2Zy > 698An21Km55uHTNxyHTpzjX8zhepPFuV > =9H7s > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
