Re: starcluster on EBS quick start

From: Justin Riley <no email>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:16:24 -0500

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Hi Liang,

OK glad to hear things are working for you. Concerning the custom EBS
image - you do not need to do anything special, just launch an instance
of the EBS AMI, customize to your liking, and then use the "ebsimage"
command to create a new custom EBS AMI. See the following doc for more
details:

http://web.mit.edu/stardev/cluster/docs/latest/manual/create_new_ami.html

HTH,

~Justin

On 01/06/2012 01:28 PM, liang cheng wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I think I figured out the problem - I tried
> "starcluster -x start mycluster" immediately after stopping it.
> After a bit of waiting (until the status of instances become
> stopped), "mycluster" can be started without problem.
>
> One more question: If I would like to create a customized ami
> image based on an existing EBS image, how can I enable the new ami
> image to be with EBS attribute as well ?
>
> Thanks, -Liang
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Justin Riley
> <justin.t.riley_at_gmail.com <mailto:justin.t.riley_at_gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Liang,
>
> What is the error you're getting when you run "starcluster start
> -x" on the same cluster?
>
> ~Justin
>
> On 01/06/2012 03:46 AM, liang cheng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does starcluster have a quick start how to use EBS to
> create/backup the
>> images ?
>>
>> I installed starcluster 0.93. After some simple changes following
>> this link
> http://web.mit.edu/stardev/cluster/docs/latest/quickstart.html,
> I'm
>> able to start and stop a cluster. But I got error when
>> "starcluster start -x " the same cluster.
>>
>> Can someone give me a pointer ?
>>
>> Thanks, -Liang
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin_at_yahoo.com
> <mailto:raysonlogin_at_yahoo.com>
>> <mailto:raysonlogin_at_yahoo.com <mailto:raysonlogin_at_yahoo.com>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Nicolas,
>>
>> Micro instances can only support launching from an EBS based
> AMI, as
>> t1.micro cannot use the local disk (it is a designed feature,
> not a
>> bug). Gpucluster works because the instance type can use the
>> disk local to the node.
>>
>>
>> Can you check the image and see if it is EBS-based or S3-based??
>>
>>
>> Rayson
>>
>> ================================= Grid Engine / Open Grid
>> Scheduler http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net
>> <http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: Nicolas Pinto
>> <nicolas.pinto_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:nicolas.pinto_at_gmail.com>
>> <mailto:nicolas.pinto_at_gmail.com
>> <mailto:nicolas.pinto_at_gmail.com>>> To: starcluster
>> <starcluster_at_mit.edu
> <mailto:starcluster_at_mit.edu> <mailto:starcluster_at_mit.edu
> <mailto:starcluster_at_mit.edu>>>
>> Cc: Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 12:07 PM Subject: Re:
>> [StarCluster] Using Starcluster with micro instances?
>>
>> Cc'ing the mailing list.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Nicolas Pinto
>> <nicolas.pinto_at_gmail.com <mailto:nicolas.pinto_at_gmail.com>
> <mailto:nicolas.pinto_at_gmail.com <mailto:nicolas.pinto_at_gmail.com>>>
> wrote:
>>> Quick question from:
>>> http://forum.cs264.org/index.php?topic=411.0
>>>
>>> There seems to be an issue when trying t1.micro with
>>> StarCluster
>> AMIs, e.g.:
>>>
>>> % ec2-run-instances -key kp ami-bf5eb9d6 -t t1.micro
>>> Client.UnsupportedOperation: AMI 'ami-bf5eb9d6' with an
> instance-store
>>> root device is not supported for the instance type 't1.micro'.
>>>
>>> I'm having the same issue.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Nicolas Pinto http://web.mit.edu/pinto
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