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VMoodle is a complete functional infrastructure able to deploy a large set of moodle instances on a single moodle installation.
It is particularily suitable for large academic deployments where a lot of similar instances need to be provided to a set of schools sharing the same usage model.
The virtualisation makes the physical configuration dynamic with all tools to snapshot, deploy or destroy moodle virtual instances. VMoodle is a concept created in 2008 for the French Ministry of Education and has a long work tail for solving all issues related to virtualisation.
Virtualized instances are full independant moodle instances with an autonomous administration, while sharing the same plugin set and versions. A global administration layer and config preset allow to force some settings too be fexed for the entire network.
VMoodle manages the MNET subnetwork concept, in which some of the virtual instances may form a own subnetwork MNET independantly of other instances.
VMoodle provides also optionally an alternative MNET strategy to operate a set of instances as a “Super Moodle” with an unified “Global Network” configuration (So called auth MultiMNET)
(*) Attention : le bloc des versions antérieures à 2.8 contient l'intégralité de l'implantation VMoodle. Le bloc à partir de la version 2.8 a été expurgé d'une très grande partie de son code.