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Documentation Organization

The goal for this documentation is to that we have a single source for each type of documentation that can be included in the releases, linked to from anywhere and easy to maintain. 

VCL Install Guide

• Design Considerations, decisions to be made before starting a VCL install
• Network diagram
• 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 node
• Creating base environments
  • Creating Windows base image under VMware
  • Creating Windows base image
  • Creating Linux base install
• 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 and ESX Standard Server
  • Lab - for standalone machines, only brokers access (does not support reloading or imaging)
• Experimental
  • Creating a Standalone VMware VCL Environment

VCL System Administration Guides

• Administrator's FAQ
• HowTo's

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

VCL End-User Guides

• Getting started
• How to create images
• XML RPC Documentation

VCL Developer Guidelines

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• mailing lists

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• Web - php
• Backend  - vcld perl
• database schema - mysql

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• Provisioning modules
• OS modules

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• Reporting bugs
• Suggestions for improvements

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