Overview

This section provides in-depth knowledge for utilizing Chameleon’s advanced features.

• Resource discovery: Discover Chameleon bare metal resources by node type and view node information.

• Reservations: Reserve Chameleon resources for use in your Project.

• Bare metal instances: Launch and manage Instances on Chameleon bare metal resources. This is a core feature of Chameleon.

• Images: Create images of Instances.

• Monitoring: Collect, manage and view experimental data from Chameleon Instances.

• Complex appliances: Work with Complex Appliances, which automate the process of deploying multiple Instances with reconfigurable networking.

• Object Store: Store user data such as files as Objects in portable Containers.

• Shares: Provide file storage to an instance with the OpenStack Shared File System service.

• Networking: Create Isolated virtual networks within Chameleon.

• FPGAs: Configure and work with FPGA nodes.

• KVM: Use non-bare metal virtual machine resources in Chameleon’s OpenStack implementation.