Hi, for those who want to give OSCAR a quick try there's a VMware appliance with a fully installed and configured cluster headnode based on fedora core 5 at http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/341 With it you can try OSCAR in a virtual machine even on your Windows Laptop. You can freeze and migrate the virtual headnode, remove it and unpack it again. The packed size of the appliance is 1.4GB, unpacked: 4GB.
It is based on a pretty recent SVN version of OSCAR5 (r4853), the setup has been done with a *.url distro repository and the appliance contains a ready built image prepared for deployment. Therefore the default interaction panel is the "management" panel, which can be started from the desktop. For trying this out you'll need to: - download and install VMplayer from www.vmware.com - download and unpack the appliance (you'll need to use bittorrent for this) - start the appliance with vmplayer Login with user=oscar password=vmoscar. The root password is vmOSCAR, so take care to change that before putting the machine onto the network. The appliance comes with two bridged networks. eth0 is intended to be the cluster internal network, don't change it because it's address is registerd in the oscar database. eth1 is intended as "external" interface. Adapt this one to your local network, give it an address in your local network. Then restart the network service. Now you're ready to deploy a cluster: - click on the OSCAR symbol to open up the management interface - select "add client nodes" and follow the instructions Although most features are working fine, please be aware that this is based on an unreleased OSCAR version which is currently under development! It certainly has bugs. Best regards, Erich PS: a goodie: nagios is installed and preconfigured as cluster health monitoring tool. PPS: of course you can run a fully virtual cluster if you start empty virtual machines as clients to this virtual headnode. Check out mk_vcluster for this. http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/browser/pkgsrc/tools/mk_vcluster _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
