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VCL Install Guide

• Design Considerations, decisions - Decisions to be made before starting a VCL install
• Network diagramDiagram
• Installation Install procedures, dependences. VCL has been tested and used in production on most recently releases of CentOS, RH Enterprise Server, RH Fedora Core.
  • Database
  • Web server
  • Management nodeNode
• Creating base environments Base Environments
  • Create a Windows Base Image
  • Creating a Linux base installBase Image
• Installing & Configuring Provisioning Modules
  • xCAT (xCAT.pm)
  • xCAT 2.1 (xCAT21.pm)
  • VMware Server (vmware.pm)
  Setting up specific provisioning modules
  • xCAT
  • esx - uses vmware perl toolkit api to manage ESX and ESXi versions
  • vmware - uses vmware-cmd on host server to interact with VMWare Free server VMware Server and ESX Standard Server
  • VMware ESX (esx.pm) - uses the VMware Perl Toolkit API to manage VMware ESX and ESXi
  • Lab - for standalone machines, only brokers access (Lab.pm) - brokers access to standalone lab machines (does not support reloading or imaging)
• Experimental
  • Creating a Standalone VMware VCL Environment - instructions to set up a working VCL environment on a single computer using VMware

VCL System Administration Guides

• Administrator's FAQ
• HowTo's
  • Web interface administrative tools
  • Add machines to computer table
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• Granting access through the Privilege tree
• Group management 
• Tying in web authentication - LDAP, shibboleth, etc
• Creating web skins
• How Image management works

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