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
      1. change shall to bash or python 2.4  will crash:  bash
   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  (for bash)
      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 emi-39FA160F  and check it runs:  euca-describe-instances
   8. Attach EBS volume to this instance : euca-attach-volume -i  i-508B097C -d /dev/vdb vol-82DB0796
      euca-attach-volume -i <instance-id> -d /dev/vdb <volumeid>
   9. ssh to this instance and format the EBS volume: ssh -i key-euca2-balewski-x509/balewski-euca.private  root@128.55.56.58
      yes | mkfs -t ext3 /dev/vdb
      mkdir /apps
      mount /dev/vdb /apps
   10. aaa

Trouble shooting:

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