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All of our applications nodes have enough CPU and RAM resources in order to run more than one virtual machine. The initial goal is to virtualize the following HW/Environments:
– node 1: sakai-dev
– node 2: sakai-test
– node
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3: smartsite-beta (provided with Banner data but for users to play with), needed by March
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4: most of the supporting scripts, apache to run maintenance pages, ucd-gateway, and ucd-help -- production executables
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5: sakai-beta 2.5.x -- one release ahead of our current release
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6: smartsite-beta 2.5.x
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7: sakai contrib -- new tools that we don't have in prod yet but we want to evaluate, using stubing for this now
– node 9: smartsite contrib -- Tools: SCORM and course evaluation
HW and SW Requirements
- Application Servers
- stubing
- isaac
- Operation System
- RedHat v5.1
- Virtualization SW
- Xen : This is open source
- VMware
- File System
- Stored locally
- SAN and distributed file system such as NetApp or VMFS
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