Yes, that makes perfect sense. Thanks. > Nate
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday, August 26, 2013 3:44:39 PM Wood, Nathan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > <snip> > > > Also, I have a more specific question regarding some documentation I > found > > in the VCL wiki (in the Security Features section): > > > > > > - The VCL environments are not generally shared. One user to one > machine. > > > > > > Does that statement apply to bare metal provisioned systems only? Is VCL > > capable of provisioning multiple VMs on a single host? > > Nate, > > I can only speak to the part I left above. The statement you pulled from > the > documentation means multiple VCL users are not provisioned onto the same > node > at the same time. A node in this case could be a VM or a bare metal > system, > but it does not refer to a hypervisor. Many VMs are provisioned onto a > single > hypervisor with the hypervisor being shared by the users on the VMs, but > only > one user is assigned to a VM at any given time. > > Nodes provisioned under the Server Profiles portion of the site can have an > exception to this if a user group is assigned to the reservation with the > intent that the reservation is to be shared by multiple users. > > Does that answer the second portion of your question? > > Josh > - -- > - ------------------------------- > Josh Thompson > VCL Developer > North Carolina State University > > my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu > > All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which > are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public > Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlIbtWQACgkQV/LQcNdtPQPIHwCeP/ffw7IMrrOsKJpY8OONLtoD > oNoAnjGSNl9O2hekxgsomC6XqwpZvBNq > =DDwO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
