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  • Management node: Linux server with the following components installed:
  • Compute node: Refers to the target blade or virtual machine on which Windows is installed.
  • Provisioning engine: Software which is able to interact with the compute node making it possible to install an OS on it
    • VCL can utilize several different provisioning engines including xCAT, VMware Server, VMware ESX, and VMware ESXi.  xCAT is a cluster management tool used to install images on bare metal blades.\
    • The provisioning engine may be a hypervisor if the compute nodes are virtual machines (VMware)
    • The provisioning engine may interact with the BladeCenter's management module if the compute nodes are IBM blades (xCAT)
    • The provisioning engine may utilize IMPI(Not Sure if you mean IPMI here?) if the compute nodes support it (xCAT)

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