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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
    • A conference workshop
  • Physical (bare-metal*) provisioning using xCAT
  • Virtual machine provisioning on VMware ESXi, 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 usage for environments
  • Privilege control, through web interface grant  vary levels of control to end-users
    • Image checkout, image creation, manage users, manage resources*, manage resource schedules
  • Set available/unavailable schedules for nodes
  • Multiple Management Nodes*

 
 

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Terminology:
Bare-metal = The physical server such as a blade server.
Node = a computer
Resources = Can be a compute node, an image, a management node, a schedule
Management Nodes = a process server or the machine where vcld is running. Processes assigned user-requests, does the provisioning. Provides scalability in a large environment.