Eucalyptus 102

Advanced tasks at Eucalyptus

list of ec2 commands

1. virtual cluster script, documentation is here: /usr/common/tig/virtualcluster/0.2.2/docs/README, 
   1. skip: *on other systems, **Setting credentials*
   2. Log into carver.nersc.gov
   3. Load the Eucalyptus tools + virtual cluster tools: 
      1. module load tig && module load euca2ools
      2. module load tig virtualcluster
   4.  setup system variables & your credentials stored in your 'eucarc' script:
      source key-euca2-balewski-x509/eucarc.csh
      make sure EUCA_KEY_DIR is set properly
   5.  create EBS volume:
      ec2-create-volume --size 5 --availability-zone euca
      VOLUME vol-82DB0796 5 euca creating 2010-12-17T20:24:45+0000
   6. check the volume is created
      euca-describe-volumes
      VOLUME vol-82DB0796 5 euca available 2010-12-17T20:24:45+0000
   7. Create an instance
      euca-run-instances -k balewski-euca
   8. Attach EBS volume to this instance :
      ec2-attach-volume -i <instance-id> -d /dev/vdb <volumeid>

Trouble shooting:

1. version of python whould be at least 2.5, to test it type:
   which python
   /usr/bin/env python
2. sss