Re: Creating multiple clusters from the same template

From: Ryan G <no email>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 11:49:05 -0400

Until its available in us-east, I can't use EFS....:/

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Rajat Banerjee <rajatb_at_post.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> Have you considered using AWS Elastic File System? It would let you mount
> your volume from multiple instances. It's
> $0.30/GB-month, which is a lot more than EBS, but it's actually elastic
> and multi-mountable. It's only available in a few regions.
>
> https://aws.amazon.com/efs/
>
> Is there Starcluster work required to support EFS? I may be able to take a
> crack at it.
> Best,
> Raj
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Ryan G <ngsbioinformatics_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all - I'm using starcluster to create 1 cluster per project instead of
>> 1 cluster for multiple projects. My cluster mounts an EBS volume to the
>> head node. The problem with this approach is I can only create 1 cluster
>> at a time since it relies on mounting the EBS volume.
>>
>> I thought a better approach would be to take a snapshot of the EBS
>> volume, then anytime I fire up a cluster, StarCluster could create an EBS
>> volume from the snapshot. This would allow me to fire up as many clusters
>> as possible. However, I don't see a way to do this with starcluster.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>>
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