Re: [VOTE][CANCELED] release VCL 2.3 (based on RC3)

2012-06-13 Thread Aaron Coburn
That makes sense to me, too. Aaron C On Jun 13, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Mark Gardner wrote: Given the need to move the svn, website, etc. I prefer to go with Aaron's suggestion. Let's get the release out and then concentrate on moving things. Mark On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Aaron

Re: [VOTE][CANCELED] release VCL 2.3 (based on RC3)

2012-06-12 Thread Aaron Coburn
I don't like the idea of another delay, but if this is just a matter of waiting one week until after the ASF meeting on June 20, then I would be inclined to wait -- especially if we have a quality release candidate ready to go. At the same time, though, I would really encourage everyone who

Re: [VOTE] Andy Kurth as PMC chair after graduation

2012-05-31 Thread Aaron Coburn
+1 And with that, the tally for this vote is: 16 positive votes 1 neutral vote 0 negative votes At this point, with such a positive display of support from the community, I believe we can now add Andy's name to the Graduation Board Resolution. Aaron Coburn -- Aaron Coburn Systems

Re: [DISCUSS] stop vote on RC1 and cut RC2

2012-05-31 Thread Aaron Coburn
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:41:12 PM Aaron Coburn wrote: -1 Sorry to a stick in the mud, guys, since I'd certainly like to see 2.3 released soon, but I encountered a few issues that I think should be fixed before cutting the release. I installed the release candidate using a fresh database

Re: [VOTE] release VCL 2.3

2012-05-30 Thread Aaron Coburn
. Aaron -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College acob...@amherst.edumailto:acob...@amherst.edu On May 30, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevan, Correct - VCL is all in scripted

[VOTE] Andy Kurth as PMC chair after graduation

2012-05-24 Thread Aaron Coburn
on the consensus from the community, the PPMC (Podling Project Management Committee) makes a recommendation to the ASF Board, which actually appoints the chair. -Aaron Coburn -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College acob...@amherst.edumailto:acob

Re: [DISCUSS] Graduation - Prepare Board Resolution

2012-05-18 Thread Aaron Coburn
resources.? That sounds much better (though I believe a comma should precede 'which'). Aaron Coburn -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College acob...@amherst.edu smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Install of Management Node

2012-05-17 Thread Aaron Coburn
or CentOS server. Aaron -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College acob...@amherst.edumailto:acob...@amherst.edu On May 16, 2012, at 8:41 PM, Sanders, Arbin D wrote: All, What packages are needed when installing CentOS

[jira] [Assigned] (VCL-560) cleartext password stored in VMProfile table

2012-05-11 Thread Aaron Coburn (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-560?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Aaron Coburn reassigned VCL-560: Assignee: Aaron Coburn cleartext password stored in VMProfile table

Re: VCL 2.3

2012-05-08 Thread Aaron Coburn
dojo release? Thanks! Aaron Coburn On May 1, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You'll also need to download the Dojo Toolkit v1.6, put it in the main web code directory, and name it 'dojo'. You'll see some errors about a missing .js

Re: [DISCUSS] Graduation

2012-05-04 Thread Aaron Coburn
create excellent sites, though. I am also a little unclear on the timeframe for modifying the website -- it this something that would be done prior to graduation or upon graduation? Aaron Coburn -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College

Re: [DISCUSS] Graduation

2012-05-04 Thread Aaron Coburn
, which relies on python to generate the HTML. Aaron Coburn On May 4, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Aaron Peeler wrote: As for the website, I agree that some design work would be really useful. I am assuming that ASF would provide a hosting arrangement, i.e. a domain like vcl.apache.org? Would

Re: Rework the Apache VCL website?

2012-05-04 Thread Aaron Coburn
On May 4, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Andy Kurth wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Aaron Coburn acob...@amherst.edu wrote: As for the website, I agree that some design work would be really useful. I am assuming that ASF would provide a hosting arrangement, i.e. a domain like vcl.apache.org

Re: status of 2.3 release

2012-04-26 Thread Aaron Coburn
follow whatever VMware chooses to do. I like that idea in principle, but the reality is that the VCL *is* managing the names of virtual disks. Given that structure, I preferred the approach described above over letting VMware manage its own names. -Aaron -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator

[jira] [Created] (VCL-560) cleartext password stored in VMProfile table

2012-03-15 Thread Aaron Coburn (Created) (JIRA)
(frontend) Affects Versions: 2.2.1 Reporter: Aaron Coburn To provide some background, we are setting up a VCL system for several institutions, using multiple, physically distributed management nodes (each located at different institutions). Each management node will control its

[jira] [Commented] (VCL-497) dedup eppn

2012-03-03 Thread Aaron Coburn (Commented) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-497?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13221771#comment-13221771 ] Aaron Coburn commented on VCL-497: -- I asked someone I know at Internet2 (the guys who

Re: [jira] [Created] (VCL-543) OSX under ESXi 4.1

2012-02-24 Thread Aaron Coburn
with service bureau, time-sharing, terminal sharing or other similar types of services. This last clause also potentially conflicts with what the VCL is doing, namely terminal sharing or other similar types of services. Or is there another way to read this? Aaron -- Aaron Coburn Systems

Re: VMware provisioning module for vCenter clusters

2012-02-21 Thread Aaron Coburn
and try to keep vCenter.pm small if possible. Thanks, Andy On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Aaron Coburn acob...@amherst.edu wrote: On Jan 31, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Sean Dilda wrote: On 1/31/12 8:46 AM, Aaron Coburn wrote: Sean, You can use the vsphere api to get the file names

Re: [Discuss] VCL 2.3 release date

2012-02-16 Thread Aaron Coburn
you get a chance also chime in on any thoughts about the 2.3 release timeline, features, etc. Thanks, Aaron P. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Aaron Coburn acob...@amherst.edu wrote: I think a March timeframe sounds reasonable for the vCenter module. I do have a few questions

Re: vcld test script

2012-02-01 Thread Aaron Coburn
bin/$_, grep /^[A-Z\.]+$/, @prog) } ); This is just a stub, but with a little more work, it could be used to configure /etc/vcl/vcld.conf and run the various tests that have been listed below. Aaron -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst

Re: VMware provisioning module for vCenter clusters

2012-01-31 Thread Aaron Coburn
, how would this fit into the current design of the VMware module? Aaron When I wrote Duke's provisioning module to work with vCenter I found it much easier to use the apis instead of going through the extra work to get a custom vmx created/uploaded/etc. Aaron Coburn acob...@amherst.edu

Re: VMware provisioning module for vCenter clusters

2012-01-31 Thread Aaron Coburn
On Jan 31, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Sean Dilda wrote: On 1/31/12 8:46 AM, Aaron Coburn wrote: Sean, You can use the vsphere api to get the file names if you really need them. This is true, and that may very well be the better approach. I am not entirely happy with the method I described

Re: VCL block alloc, PERL module issue update

2012-01-31 Thread Aaron Coburn
Not sure what you mean by hand install. That should have been installed as a part of perl-libwww-perl. Try: yum info perl-libwww-perl RPC-XML will require using either cpan or the standard: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install I would recommend NOT using cpan, since it can create

Re: VCL block alloc, PERL module issue update

2012-01-31 Thread Aaron Coburn
Oh. It looks like RPC-XML is not installed. You can verify that by using this command: perl -MRPC::XML -e print 'have a nice day' If you get errors, the module isn't installed. If the script seems friendly, then the module is installed. If the module is not installed, download it from here:

Re: VMware provisioning module for vCenter clusters

2012-01-30 Thread Aaron Coburn
in trunk and make the initial commit. There have been some minor changes to vSphere.pm so some changes may be necessary. Thanks, Andy On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Aaron Coburn acob...@amherst.edu wrote: Hi, Andy, thanks for the details on where the VMware module is headed. I am

vcld test script

2012-01-12 Thread Aaron Coburn
utilities and/or commands available to vcld from inside the vmhost (i.e. copy virtual disk, create a vm, etc.) etc, etc. Thoughts? Aaron -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College (413) 542-5451 acob...@amherst.edu

Re: VCL andVMWare licensing/load balancing

2011-12-08 Thread Aaron Coburn
very well. Aaron -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College (413) 542-5451 acob...@amherst.edu On Dec 8, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Mike Haudenschild wrote: Hello to all. I've been tasked with building out and managing a VCL implementation

Dojo library optimization

2011-08-26 Thread Aaron Coburn
thought for moving in this direction for an upcoming release? I have created a JIRA issue for this at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-505 where I have included some more information as well as the code I used to implement this in our VCL setup. Best wishes, Aaron Coburn Systems

VMware provisioning module for vCenter clusters

2011-08-16 Thread Aaron Coburn
included the relevant code in JIRA, but let me know if there is anything else I should do to help this along. Best regards, Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College (413) 542-5451 acob...@amherst.edu

[jira] [Created] (VCL-470) The vSphere module does not implement the get_total_space subroutine

2011-05-12 Thread Aaron Coburn (JIRA)
Components: vcld (backend) Affects Versions: 2.2.1 Environment: VMware ESX4 host using the perl vSphere API Reporter: Aaron Coburn Fix For: 2.2.1 The VMware provisioning module calls the get_total_space subroutine before moving the VMX and VMDK files to/from

[jira] [Created] (VCL-467) Members of a group from one affiliation have access to groups from other affiliations with the same name

2011-05-12 Thread Aaron Coburn (JIRA)
/browse/VCL-467 Project: VCL Issue Type: Bug Components: web gui (frontend) Affects Versions: 2.2.1, 2.2 Environment: PHP 5.1 on CentOS 5.5 Reporter: Aaron Coburn Fix For: 2.3 A user with permission to edit a certain group

[jira] [Updated] (VCL-467) Members of a group from one affiliation have access to groups with the same name from other affiliations

2011-05-12 Thread Aaron Coburn (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-467?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Aaron Coburn updated VCL-467: - Summary: Members of a group from one affiliation have access to groups with the same name from other