Hi Erich: This is cool! Good work!
Cheers, Bernard P.S. We should try to make an official appliance release when 5.0 is officially out. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Erich Focht > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 10:49 > To: oscar devel > Subject: [Oscar-devel] OSCAR headnode appliance > > 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/pkgsr > c/tools/mk_vcluster > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
