1. StratusLab Cloud Installation
StratusLab Tutorial (Orsay-France)
17-18 November 2011

2. Tutorial Infrastructure
In this tutorial each student we will be configuring:
Front-end machine
Node machine
Marketplace
Required
DHCP
Web
Monitor
Optional VM VM …
Front-end
Node
User
Cloud

3. Installation Methods Types of installation
Quattor
Manual
We will be using the manual installation method

4. Prerequisites Hardware Software VT-x extentions Fedora 14
Passwordless ssh between Frontend and nodes as root
A running DHCP server
(Optional) Bridge configuration

5. Prerequisites Packages
The official repo at
One package install: yum install stratuslab-cli-sysadmin
Optional: stratuslab-web-monitor, stratuslab-marketplace

6. Installation Overview
DHCP configuration
Provide each MAC with an IP in a predictable manner
ONE will be notified during installation from StratusLab tools
Network
Make sure that all nodes have the correct bridges to the correct VLANs (if you are using seperate VLANs)
Stratus-install can deal with it during installation
Node storage configuration
ONE has two modes of operation
SSH with local storage
Shared storage (e.g. nfs)
Using either of those requires no configuration (stratus-install)

7. YUM Repository Setup Configure YUM repository to local repository:
Install packages
yum install stratuslab-cli-sysadmin
[StratusLab-Releases]
name=StratusLab-Releases
baseurl=
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

8. Configuration Pre-install config Frontend and node install
stratus-config –k
stratus-config <key> <value>
Huge number of options – few required
Frontend and node install
stratus-install
stratus-install –n <hostname>
Verbosity (-v, -vv)

9. Configuration In the Frontend: Adapt the configuration:
export FRONT_END_IP=<??>
stratus-config frontend_ip $FRONT_END_IP
stratus-config node_bridge_name br0
stratus-config node_bridge_configure True
stratus-config default_gateway $FRONT_END_IP
stratus-config network_addr <??>
stratus-config quota_cpu 5
stratus-config quota_memory 1GB
stratus-config one_local_network_addr
stratus-config one_local_network_mac 0a:0a:86:9e:50:2b 0a:0a:86:9e:50:2c 0a:0a:86:9e:50:2d 0a:0a:86:9e:50:2e 0a:0a:86:9e:50:2f 0a:0a:86:9e:50:30 0a:0a:86:9e:50:31 0a:0a:86:9e:50:32 0a:0a:86:9e:50:33

10. Configuration Adapt the configuration: In The FrontendEnd
NAT_GW=
stratus-config nat True
stratus-config nat_network
stratus-config nat_gateway $NAT_GW
stratus-config nat_netmask
stratus-config nat_network_interface eth0
stratus-config dhcp True
stratus-config dhcp_subnet <??>
stratus-config dhcp_netmask
stratus-config dhcp_lease_time 3600
stratus-config dhcp_one_local_network True
stratus-config dhcp_one_local_network_subnet
stratus-config dhcp_one_local_network_broadcast
stratus-config dhcp_one_local_network_netmask
stratus-config dhcp_one_local_network_routers $NAT_GW
stratus-config dhcp_one_local_network_domain_name <??>
stratus-config dhcp_one_local_network_domain_name_servers <??>, <??>
stratus-config persistent_disk False
stratus-config validate_metadata False

11. Installation In the Frontend: That’s it. NB
Make sure that SELINUX is disabled on the nodes
stratus-install –vvv
stratus-install –n hostname_node -vvv

12. Administration Add/manage users one-proxy
User credentials (passwords or grid certs)
Simply add/remove lines from a single file