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• Provisioning module objects are created by State.pm::initialize() when a new state object is created.
• Provisioning module objects are available within state modules
• Provisioning module objects are not available within other types of modules for safety.

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Explain:

• define what we mean by "provisioning system"
• give examples of provisioning systems
• could be bare metal, virtual, differentiated, undifferentiated, a service, a special piece of hardware, eventually VCL could provision various types of resources
• relationships among mgt nodes, computers, provisioning systems (such as computer is assigned 1 prov system at a time)
• computer.provisioningid
• provisioning table
• future: management node to provisioning mapping
• provisioning module implementation is responsible for knowing which OS interactions are necessary
  • image.pm or new.pm call provisioner->process, it calls OS subs as necessary

Provisioning Module Subroutines

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