Magnus Ullberg's Blog

Deployment tool

ullbergm — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:02:00 GMT

I should have known better than to post pictures of the tool I was working on before it was done...

I have had several requests for copies of it and unfortunately it still has issues that I need to address before I would want to publish it somewhere.

The good news is that I asked my boss and he did not see any issues with me publishing it online.

Deployment tool update

ullbergm — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:16:00 GMT

I had to add a throttling feature to the application to keep from crushing the system (actually i dont know that it would crush the system but just in case i added the feature). This is what the application looks like now:

Deployment tool

ullbergm — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:22:00 GMT

Working on a new deployment tool for mass deploying workstations to support our VDI environment, here is a preview screenshot.

Now i need to figure out a way to pull the total diskspace needed for the template (disk + swap), then the plan is to develop a smart datastore selection function. At first this would just be the datastore with the most amount of space available, easy enough. This function would be called each time that a clone job is started.

Another thing on the list is to create a queueing system outside of VC since i dont want to kick off 10 deployments at once and drop VC to its knees.