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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 for environments
  • Privilege control , through web interface grant  vary - 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.
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Terminology:

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baremetal
baremetal
Bare-metal = The a physical server (such as a blade server.) as opposed to a virtual machine
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node
node
Node = a computer
Resources = Can be
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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 Nodes Node = a process server or the machine where vcld is running. Processes assigned ; processes user - requests , assigned by the scheduler; does the provisioning. Provides scalability in a large environment.