Page History

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• Perl
• Perl Modules (available from cpan.org)
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV/MailTools-2.04.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TM/TMTM/Class-Data-Inheritable-0.08.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/Devel-StackTrace-1.20.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/Exception-Class-1.26.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JD/JDHEDDEN/Object-InsideOut-3.52.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Module-Build-0.30.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AG/AGROLMS/GSSAPI-0.26.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Authen-SASL-2.12.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RE/REATMON/XML-Stream-1.22.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/H/HA/HACKER/Net-XMPP-1.02.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RE/REATMON/Net-Jabber-2.0.tar.gz
  • http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML/XML-Parser-2.36.tar.gz
  • http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/RPC/RPC-XML-0.64.tar.gz
  • http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Crypt/Crypt-SSLeay-0.57.tar.gz

Backend Scripting & Programming Languages

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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):

1. private network - where most control operations happen and where images are pushed around
2. public network - how end users connect to the nodes
3. 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