Hi Linda,Exactly! I think VMs would be an easier way of "dynamically" growing the compute cluster than physical nodes due to the inherent "more are always instantly available" nature, but of course that depends heavily on the workload one is looking to place on the cloud nodes and if VMs are acceptable for it.
Thank you for providing some info regarding what is available today! I definitely recognize the complexity with making cloud servers appear as if they are local nodes in the cluster and deploying to them. It would be great to one day be able to deploy directly to EC2/Google Compute Engine/etc. with an xCAT management node. Lots of value there!
Russell On 5/6/2014 1:32 PM, Linda Mellor wrote:
You have an existing xCAT management node, with or without your own local compute nodes. You want to grow your xCAT cluster, not through purchasing and installing your own lab hardware, but rather through going to a Cloud services provider, and asking for some nodes - either VMs or full bare-metal nodes. You would then like to be able to use your xCAT management node to provision OS images to those new nodes and use all the other great xCAT remote management capabilities (xdsh, updatenode, etc., etc.) to manage those nodes.
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