title: 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