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- xCAT 1.3 or xCAT 2.1 xCAT.org
- VMWare Free Server
- VMWare ESX can use native vmware-cmd or VMware perl toolkit
- VMWare ESXi requires VMware perl toolkit
- KVM
- IBM Smart Cloud computing ( in development, ask on the mailing list)
Images
Windows Image Utilities & Other Files
- Windows Sysprep for each version of Windows being used, available from microsoft.com( only needed for bare-metal loads)
- Driver files specific to each version/platform of Windows being used
- spdrvscn.exe utility - scans Windows drivers before an image is saved, available from vernalex.com
- wsname.exe utility - renames computer according to registered DNS name, available from mystuff.clarke.co.nz
- Cygwin with OpenSSH - allows management nodes to control loaded Windows OS on blades, available from cygwin.com
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Two or Three networks (see Network DiagramLayout):
- private network - where most control operations happen and where images are pushed around
- public network - how end users connect to the nodes
- Blade Center management network - this is only needed if doing bare metal deployment; it is used to communicate with the blade server management modules to power on/off the blades and to configure the boot process
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- bare metal kickstart deploys using xCAT:
- IBM BladeCenter Blade models HS20 and , HS21, HS22's
- Sun blade models X6220 and X6250
- bare metal image deploys using xCAT:
- IBM BladeCenter Blade models HS20 and HS21
- VMWare Free Server image deploys should work on any hardware with VMWare Free Server installed and 2 network interfaces
- VMWare ESX or ESXi image deploys should work on any hardware with VMWare ESX installed and 2 network interfaces
- VMWare vcenter
- KVM based image deploys should work on any VT capable hardware with KVM hypervisor installed and 2 network interfaces
Development tools used by VCL committers
- ActiveState Komodo IDE - used to develop several types of files, commercial product
- SlickEdit
- VI/VIM
- Firebug plugin for Firefox
- WinSCP - used to manually transfer files to/from Windows images and to/from Windows development machines
- PuTTY