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Flash UI

Flash UI
Written By
Jason Brooks
Jason Brooks
May 25, 2011
1 minute read
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Flash UI

1

rPath X6 sports a Flash-based UI, which manages to pack a good deal of system administration detail into its series of tabs and collapsible menu lists.


vSphere Target

2

I connected rPath X6 to the vSphere installation in our lab, and found that I could launch new instances of pre-existing VM templates.


Appliance Images

3

I tested with VMware and Amazon EC2 images, but rPath X6 supports a handful of others, including those for Hyper-V, XenServer and KVM.


Platform Support

4

rPath X6 supports CentOS 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Window Server as platforms for building software appliances.


Deploy to EC2

5

After getting my appliance in order on our local vSphere installation, it was easy to create and upload a version of my image to Amazon EC2.


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Package Import

6

I added the latest version of WordPress to my test appliance by supplying the URL to the most recent archive of the project’s code.


Appliance Configuration

7

Appliances set up for configuration pick up controls in the X6 interface for manipulating config file variables and scripts.


Configuration Setup

8

To enable the configuration tab in the X6 interface, I first had to create a package of XML and script files to carry out the configuration operations.

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