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Community

Interested in joining the community or giving back to open source? There are several ways to assist:

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Confluence

http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL

Subversion Repository

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/vcl

JIRA

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL

Current version

VCL 2.4.2.1

Release Roadmap

ASF VCL JIRA Roadmap

User Documentation

Documentation (work in progress: Diagrams, Install guide)

Architecture Diagram

Architecture

IRC

#asfvcl on Freenode

Conceptual Overview

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  • Automated provisioning, on-demand or future based
  • Brokers user sessions
  • Block allocations - provisioning larger number of compute environments for a specific event
    • For the class room
    • For a conference workshop
  • Physical (bare-metal) provisioning using xCAT
  • Virtual machine provisioning on VMware ESXi, VMware ESX Standard server, VMware Free Server
  • Image creation - allow end-users to create custom environments
  • Image revision control - create multiple revisions of an image
  • Statistics of environment usage
  • Privilege control - grant varying levels of control to end-users through web interface
    • Image checkout, image creation, manage users, manage resources, manage resource schedules
  • Set available/unavailable schedules for nodes
  • Multiple Management Nodes for scalability
  • API support for making requests and provisioning resources
Panel

Terminology:

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baremetal
baremetal
Bare-metal = a physical server (such as a blade server) as opposed to a virtual machine

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node
node
Node = a computer

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resource
resource
Resource = a compute node, an image, a management node, or a schedule

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managementnode
managementnode
Management Node = a process server or the machine where vcld is running; processes user requests assigned by the scheduler; does the provisioning

System Requirements

See the VCL Installation documentation for more information

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