Re: EBS optimized and enhanced networking

From: Cedar McKay <no email>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 07:53:20 -0700

Great, thanks! Looking forward to playing with EBS optimized instances.

As for enhance networking, do the official starcluster HVM AMIs have the required NIC driver? If not, why not, and how would I know which drivers to install? And short of benchmarking the network, is there any simple way to tell whether enhanced networking is functioning on my cluster?

Thanks!
Cedar

> On May 29, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> I added support for EBS optimized instances last year at Scalable Logic, but we are using a fork of StarCluster that is customized for our environment. I will check & see if I can clean it up and release it to the open source version of StarCluster.
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> For enhanced networking, StarCluster added support for it for a while - as long as you have the right AMI type (HVM), running on the right instance type (eg. i2, c3, and the more recently added r3), and the NIC driver, and the instances are in VPCs, then you can get the benefit of enhanced networking.
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>> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Cedar McKay <cmckay_at_uw.edu> wrote:
>> Have I missed in the docs how to take advantage EBS optimized instances and also enhanced networking? Seems like both would be great in a cluster environment.
>>
>> Anyone manage to get it going on your own?
>>
>> best,
>> Cedar
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