23 | | Below are the specific items being tracked in these areas for each set of tools. |
| 24 | == Mailing lists == |
| 25 | These lists should be used for help on questions or issues with each of the racks. Subscribing to each of these lists will allow you to see the latest questions, answers, known issues and scheduled downtime related to each of the racks. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | * ExoGENI: geni-orca-users@googlegroups.com |
| 28 | * InstaGENI: progoteni-users@googlegroups.com |
| 29 | |
| 30 | == Known differences between racks == |
| 31 | || || '''ExoGENI''' || '''InstaGENI''' || |
| 32 | || '''Virtualization technology''' || KVM || openvz || |
| 33 | || '''Images''' || requires separate filesystem/kernel/ramdisk images, highly recommended to add NEuca guest extensions, must run on KVM || Because VMs are openvz containers, must be same OS as hypervisor (Fedora) || |
| 34 | || '''Data plane IPs''' || doesn't auto-assign IPs when not specified in request || auto-assigns IPs when not specified in request || |
| 35 | || '''Login information''' || Not available in manifest until resources are active || Available as soon as resources are provisioned || |