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Posted to user@vcl.apache.org by fengxiujie_sjtu <fe...@sjtu.edu.cn> on 2011/01/06 09:07:21 UTC
[Important] Some questions about installing VCL and how to use it
Hi ,list
It's my great honour to contact with all of you guys.Recently, I have shown great interest on VCL and have spent a lot of time on installing VCL for academic research.However ,though the documentation of VCL were well organized and the ideas were clearly delivered,I am still have some trouble making VCL to work correctly. I wonder if you can help me with the following questions.
1, I have followed the "VCL Install Guide "as link https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Documentation described step by step while installing VCL ,however , I could not manage the vm hosts and vms through the web interface when I finished " Database Configuration","Web Code Installation ","Management Node Installation ".I want to know how VCL management node interact with ESX hosts .I find the function vcl can auto create
vm on esxi and delete vm on esxi ,but I DID NOT find any detail Documentation about it .
2, I wonder if you can give a document about how to use VCL via Web interface or other methods , as most of the VCL documents are about how to install it.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
yours,
Xiujie Feng
2011-01-05
fengxiujie_sjtu
Re: [Important] Some questions about installing VCL and how to use
it
Posted by James O'Dell <jo...@fullerton.edu>.
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Hi All,
While it's true that you need to create/configure the vmware host
systems (and the vmware guests) in VCL before you can do anything
with them.
In one manner VCL does "auto create vm on esxi and delete vm
on esxi".
During the image loading/unloading phases, VCL does create/delete
the .vmx files(using preconfigured images) and then communicate with
the vmware host to start/stop the vmware guest.
So in this way VCL it does create/delete the esxi vm.
Hope this helps clarify things.
__Jim
On 1/12/2011 11:03 AM, Josh Thompson wrote:
> On Thursday January 06, 2011, fengxiujie_sjtu wrote:
>> Hi ,list
>
>> It's my great honour to contact with all of you guys.Recently, I have
>> shown great interest on VCL and have spent a lot of time on installing VCL
>> for academic research.However ,though the documentation of VCL were well
>> organized and the ideas were clearly delivered,I am still have some
>> trouble making VCL to work correctly. I wonder if you can help me with
>> the following questions.
>
>> 1, I have followed the "VCL Install Guide "as link
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Documentation described
>> step by step while installing VCL ,however , I could not manage the vm
>> hosts and vms through the web interface when I finished " Database
>> Configuration","Web Code Installation ","Management Node Installation ".I
>> want to know how VCL management node interact with ESX hosts .I find the
>> function vcl can auto create vm on esxi and delete vm on esxi ,but I DID
>> NOT find any detail Documentation about it .
>
> Do you remember where you found information saying that VCL can auto create
> VMs? It does not currently do that. If there is documentation somewhere
> stating that, it needs to be corrected.
>
> To use VMs with VCL, you need to first add VM host computers using Manage
> Computers->Edit Computer Information->Add. Then, you need to add VMs using
> the same mechanism. Finally, you need to go to Virtual Hosts and add the VMs
> to the VM hosts. Currently, VCL does not manage placement of VMs on VM hosts
> automatically. That is something we will add in a future release.
>
>> 2, I wonder if you can give a document about how to use VCL via Web
>> interface or other methods , as most of the VCL documents are about how
>> to install it.
>
> We definitely need to work on documentation in lots of areas. There is some
> documentation on using VCL. The best place to look is to just browse the list
> of pages in the wiki:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Browse+Pages
>
> Josh
>
>
>> Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
>
>> yours,
>
>> Xiujie Feng
>
>
>> 2011-01-05
>
>
>
>> fengxiujie_sjtu
>
>
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Jim O'Dell
Network Analyst
California State University Fullerton
Email: jodell@fullerton.edu
Phone: (657) 278-2256
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Re: [Important] Some questions about installing VCL and how to use it
Posted by Josh Thompson <jo...@ncsu.edu>.
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On Thursday January 06, 2011, fengxiujie_sjtu wrote:
> Hi ,list
>
> It's my great honour to contact with all of you guys.Recently, I have
> shown great interest on VCL and have spent a lot of time on installing VCL
> for academic research.However ,though the documentation of VCL were well
> organized and the ideas were clearly delivered,I am still have some
> trouble making VCL to work correctly. I wonder if you can help me with
> the following questions.
>
> 1, I have followed the "VCL Install Guide "as link
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Documentation described
> step by step while installing VCL ,however , I could not manage the vm
> hosts and vms through the web interface when I finished " Database
> Configuration","Web Code Installation ","Management Node Installation ".I
> want to know how VCL management node interact with ESX hosts .I find the
> function vcl can auto create vm on esxi and delete vm on esxi ,but I DID
> NOT find any detail Documentation about it .
Do you remember where you found information saying that VCL can auto create
VMs? It does not currently do that. If there is documentation somewhere
stating that, it needs to be corrected.
To use VMs with VCL, you need to first add VM host computers using Manage
Computers->Edit Computer Information->Add. Then, you need to add VMs using
the same mechanism. Finally, you need to go to Virtual Hosts and add the VMs
to the VM hosts. Currently, VCL does not manage placement of VMs on VM hosts
automatically. That is something we will add in a future release.
> 2, I wonder if you can give a document about how to use VCL via Web
> interface or other methods , as most of the VCL documents are about how
> to install it.
We definitely need to work on documentation in lots of areas. There is some
documentation on using VCL. The best place to look is to just browse the list
of pages in the wiki:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Browse+Pages
Josh
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
>
> yours,
>
> Xiujie Feng
>
>
> 2011-01-05
>
>
>
> fengxiujie_sjtu
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Josh Thompson
VCL Developer
North Carolina State University
my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu
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