Roadmap

Future

VCL 2.4

• Configuration management system
• Scripted installation
• VCL Broker

VCL 2.5

• Improve additional connect methods
• NAT support
• Remove requirement for 2 NICs
• Support for Spice remote display protocol
• Support for ESX OS for end users
• Initial support for EC2 API and OpenStack

VCL 2.6

• Power management
• Improve cluster reservations
• Service deployment configuration management
• Initial support for Libcloud

VCL 2.7

• develop tools for managing both system and user storage

Current

VCL 2.3.1

• Bugfixes

Past

VCL 2.3

• Service deployments
• Allow for additional connect methods for environments (port, other protocols, etc)
• Added framework support for libvirt
• Added support for KVM
• Added support for OS X under ESX
• Added support for VMware VCenter
• Added multilingualization to frontend

VCL 2.2.1

• removed frontend dependency on jpgraph
• remove any access control that is hard coded in frontend
• added support for VirtualBox hypervisor
• many bug fixes and improvements to VMWare support

VCL 2.2

• support for xCAT 2.x
• VMWare Free Server 2.x and ESXi 4
• improve block reservations (renamed to block allocations)

VCL 2.1

• completed modularization of vcld
• xCAT 2.1 support
• Shibboleth authentication
• VMWare management via VMWare toolkit
• ESXi with thin provisioning on a NetApp
• Only supports xCAT 1.3 and xCAT 2.1 versions