Hi,
I am wondering if maybe VCL can already do this... Sometimes we need to
take our VCL system offline for maintenance of some aspect. Generally
we know about these times well in advance. We'd like to be able to
block out all our nodes so they can't be reserved during that future
maintenance window. I was imagining I could create a web-form where
someone could set the start and end times and even enter a message that
would be posted within the VCL web applications for our users so they
know about the upcoming downtime.
I've looked at block allocations and they don't see quite right because
they want to install an image on the VMs and we don't want that - we
would like the distribution of images to stay the same. I have also
looked at the Maintenance state, but there currently isn't a way to set
those for the future and again, the system wants to re-image the nodes
when it later becomes 'available'.
I am considering creating a new state and altering vcld to understand
it, but I thought I should check with you guys first - you must run into
the same situation occasionally. How do you handle it?
Thanks for all your hard work!
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Liz Wendland
Duke University Office of Information Technology
