Hi All,
I would like to introduce new VCL provisioning module for IBM SmartCloud Provisioning (formerly IBM Service Agility Accelerator for Cloud (ISAAC) or High Scale Low Touch (HSLT)) in VCL. IBM SmartCloud Provisioning is a true IaaS (Infrastructure As A Service) solution that can reduce costs and offer near-zero downtime and automated recovery. This provides new solution that provides quick cloud deployment and features automated provisioning, parallel scalability and integrated fault tolerance to increase operational efficiency and respond to user needs. It also provides the foundation to integrate more advanced cloud capabilities such as cloud service management capabilities. For more detail information about IBM SmartCloud Provisioning, please visit the following website. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/smartcloud-provisioning/ To take the advantages of the advanced features in IBM SmartCloud Provisioning, I write the new VCL provisioning module called hslt.pm (hslt stands for high scale low touch and is the former name of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning). The new module can use the fast cloud deployment feature to achieve the fast reservation. This can be achieved by making paths (i.e., copying links of images) to the virtual machine images in storage nodes instead of coping images from original directory to instance directory in NFS systems. For the detailed information about this module, please visit the Apache VCL jira issues (VCL-537) on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL. I will keep update the issue if necessary. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions. Thank you. Best regards, -------------------------------------------------------------------- Young Hyun Oh IBM, Tivoli CTO Technology and Architecture
