Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, As you know, the number of Virtual Machines per host depends on available resources (CPU, RAM, Disk), as well as the demands of the image. As a general guide, I have found the following to be reasonable. Other admins, please share your opinions. For a single VM host with 12 virtual CPU a

Rocks HPC and VCL

2012-05-23 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, Has anyone tried to deploy a rocks-based HPC with vcl ? Rocks front end uses its own dhcp server to deploy its compute nodes. Will they interfere with the management node's dhcp, or other VCL functions ? Thanks, Al Quiros

Re: Local and NFS VM Profiles

2012-05-18 Thread Evelio Quiros
s >NOT responding to SSH, ports 22 or 24 are both closed > >-Andy > >On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Evelio Quiros wrote: >> Ok, >> >> I had 4 VM servers, all using local storage. I created and deployed >> several images successfully. They are all in the manage

Re: Local and NFS VM Profiles

2012-05-18 Thread Evelio Quiros
he VM >profiles? Is this pointing to a directory on the management node? >Also, would it be possible to export this location via NFS from the >management node? > >-Andy > >On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Evelio Quiros wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have several

Local and NFS VM Profiles

2012-05-18 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, I have several VM servers using local storage. They are in use with several images stored on the management node. I want to add a few more VM servers with NFS storage. After adding them and setting the VM profile to Network storage, I cannot seem to reload my existing images from the man

Re: [VOTE] Apache VCL Ready to Graduate

2012-05-10 Thread Evelio Quiros
+1 yes, Apache VCL is ready to graduate to a top level project Al Quiros Florida International University On 5/10/12 11:01 AM, "Andy Kurth" wrote: >This vote is to determine if the Apache VCL community believes the >project is ready to graduate from the incubator to a top level >project. E

Windows 2000 Images

2012-05-04 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, I would like to use VCL to deploy Windows 2000 images. The choices for the vcld –setup only present newer windows systems (XP, Win2k3, 7) Is it possible to use vcl to deploy old systems like Windows 2000 ? Also, I have some difficulty capturing an out-of-the-box Windows XP (unpatched, n

reservation time out prevention

2012-05-01 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, Is there a setting where I don't need to click the "Connect" button on reservations ? I want to prevent a reservation from timing out if I am too late to click the connect button to confirm the reservation in use. Perhaps get it to go to "inuse" immediately after reload, instead of it be

Persistent Images

2012-04-26 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, Is there a way to specify an always persistent image on certain reservations ? I know to select "Create/Update Image" under "Manage Images", but is there some way to say "Every time THIS image is selected, make it persistent" ? I want to create a group of "always persistent" images and su

HPC cluster setup

2012-04-11 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, Now that I have VCL working to provide single virtual machines, how do I setup a cluster of machines in VCL ? How do I setup the situation where a user can reserve a small cluster out of a group of resources (a head node and child compute nodes) ? Thanks, Al Quiros

Timed out reservations

2012-03-30 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, Is there an easy way to end timed out reservations ? Once the reservations time out, the buttons to end or edit them disappear. Thanks, Al Quiros

Re: Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-15 Thread Evelio Quiros
t; >/install/image/x86/installer_files/listener.py >/install/image/x86/installer_files/rootimg.gz > >Also, can you check that there are symlinks for x86 or x86_64 in >/install/image/ and /tftpboot/xcat/image/, ie: > >$ ls -l >x86 >x86_64 -> x86 > >Thanks. >

Re: Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-15 Thread Evelio Quiros
-to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html > >Thanks. > >-- >Dmitri Chebotarov > > >On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 15:37 , Evelio Quiros wrote: > >> Hello again, >> >> Dimitri, thanks for the advice. >> >> I have a question about these commands. >>

Re: Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-14 Thread Evelio Quiros
to this - provmethod changes from >image to install: > >#node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable >... >"d6100a","image","x86","rh5image-rh66-v0","install","x86,x86_64",,, >... > >I

Re: Permanent reservations ?

2012-03-14 Thread Evelio Quiros
the reservation to >anything. > >Josh > >On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:22:23 PM Evelio Quiros wrote: >> Hello, >> >> How do you setup reservations so that they never end, until the user >>decides >> to end them ? >> >> I have setup an image

Permanent reservations ?

2012-03-14 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, How do you setup reservations so that they never end, until the user decides to end them ? I have setup an image that does not check the the user login, and I increased the reservation time to 8640 minutes (6 days) for just a certain group. How do I setup a group that has never ending re

Re: Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-13 Thread Evelio Quiros
78 2012-03-13 16:03:51|7018|1:1|image|utils.pm:delete_computerloadlog_reservation(6742)|r emoving computerloadlog entries matching loadstate = begin 2012-03-13 16:03:51|7018|1:1|image|utils.pm:delete_computerloadlog_reservation(6789)|d eleted rows from computerloadlog for reservation id=1 2012-03-1

Re: Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-13 Thread Evelio Quiros
T >installation instruction pages on their site. You may want to start >with this simpler one: >http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Basic_Install_D >HCP > >-Andy > >On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Evelio Quiros wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Af

Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-07 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, After working a while with VmWare images, we have started experimenting with Xcat bare metal images. To accommodate the added level of complexity with Xcat, I created a separate development environment with VCL and some dell 6100 high density nodes. I have installed RHEL 6.1 with Xcat o

Re: Shibboleth Authentication in VCL

2012-02-23 Thread Evelio Quiros
have affiliation.shibonly set to 1 for any affiliations >logging >in with Shibboleth? > >Josh > >On Thursday 23 February 2012 7:06:40 PM Evelio Quiros wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We are trying to configure Shibboleth for VCL. We have gotten to the >>point >> w

Re: Shibboleth Authentication in VCL

2012-02-23 Thread Evelio Quiros
g >in with Shibboleth? > >Josh > >On Thursday 23 February 2012 7:06:40 PM Evelio Quiros wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We are trying to configure Shibboleth for VCL. We have gotten to the >>point >> where a user is able to log in successfully, so the $_SERV

Shibboleth Authentication in VCL

2012-02-23 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, We are trying to configure Shibboleth for VCL. We have gotten to the point where a user is able to log in successfully, so the $_SERVER values are ok, but it does not add the new user into the database. Doing a search for that username shows nothing, even though we were able to login suc

NFS in multiple VM servers

2012-02-07 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, Having a bit of a problem, and I guess it might be an assumption that I am making… I have 8 VM servers on VCL. Each server is attached to NFS disks. These are separate NFS shares for each VM server. I capture a base image on one server. I can reload any computer attached to that server

Occasional Reservation Failures& Performance Tuning

2012-01-17 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, We have a small VCL system serving 200 images on 8 VMware servers. Our system seems to operate pretty well, except that we occasionally get reservation failures. The servers (web, mgt, db) do not appear overloaded, max at about 10% utilization. Out of about 200 reservations (roughly simu

Email Config in VCL

2012-01-12 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, Can anyone tell me where the config files are for the VCL email messages ? I imagine these are on the management node somewhere ? In particular, I want to change the address it is using to send from, and also some of the text of the messages. Thanks, Al Quiros

Re: Resource Group Error

2012-01-03 Thread Evelio Quiros
Thanks ! Al Q On 1/3/12 11:36 AM, "Dmitri Chebotarov" wrote: >Al > >Take at look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-456 > >You need to add $groupwasnone = 0; line to groups.php. > >Thanks. >On Jan 3, 2012, at 11:28 , Evelio Quiros wrote: > &

Resource Group Error

2012-01-03 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, I am getting this error on the VCL web interface when I try to edit a resource group: Error encountered Unkown error type: [8] Undefined variable: groupwasnone Error at 511 in /var/www/html/vcl/.ht-inc/groups.php Any idea what this means ? Thanks, Al Quiros

Re: Multi Nic Image ?

2011-12-29 Thread Evelio Quiros
Anybody have any idea how to create an image with more than two network interfaces? I tried capturing an image with 5 nics, only to have VCL reduce it to two. Al Q From: Al Quiros mailto:evq...@fiu.edu>> Reply-To: mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org>> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:29:41 + To: "

Re: Capturing Windows 2003 Server Image

2011-12-28 Thread Evelio Quiros
ue will be 10 (maintenance) and request.laststate >will be 16 (image). change request.state to 16 and the normal running >vcld process will restart the capture. > >-Andy > >On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Evelio Quiros wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Happy New Year to you al

Multi Nic Image ?

2011-12-28 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, I am trying to create an image with multiple network interfaces to act as a router. I setup the image with 5 nics, 1 in the private vlan, and 4 in the public. After capturing the image, I find that VCL recreated it with only 2 Network devices. This is a Vmware Linux image. Is this contro

Capturing Windows 2003 Server Image

2011-12-27 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, Happy New Year to you all. I am having trouble capturing a Windows 2003 Server image. I setup Windows 2003 on the VM server and installed and configured Cygwin. I setup the gen-keys, and my Management node can SSH to the server fine without a password. When I tried to capture the new bas

Re: Windows Remote Desktop to Captured Images

2011-12-20 Thread Evelio Quiros
It appears that subsequent Windows XP reservations DO work with RDP. Apparently, it was just the first reservation that had a problem. Have a happy holiday everybody. Al Q From: Al Quiros mailto:evq...@fiu.edu>> Reply-To: mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org>> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:06:52 +00

Windows Remote Desktop to Captured Images

2011-12-20 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, First of all…Happy Holidays ! Ok, I created a Windows XP image. All updates and Microsoft antivirus installed. I installed and setup Cygwin to ssh. I setup the ssh keys with the genkeys script. I turned on and allowed remote desktop, and was able to RDP to the image before capture. Durin

Re: Cannot make reservations with Static IP

2011-12-15 Thread Evelio Quiros
to help trouble shot the issue. Please use www.pastebin.com<http://www.pastebin.com> and link us to the log there :) -Alex On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Evelio Quiros mailto:evq...@fiu.edu>> wrote: Interestingly, the reservation fails for a linux base image, but succeeds for a Windows base im

Re: Cannot make reservations with Static IP

2011-12-15 Thread Evelio Quiros
Interestingly, the reservation fails for a linux base image, but succeeds for a Windows base image. Do I need to do something different for Linux base images ? Al Quiros Florida International University From: Al Quiros mailto:evq...@fiu.edu>> Reply-To: mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org>> Da

Cannot make reservations with Static IP

2011-12-15 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, I recently switched my Management Node to set static IP for the public network. I captured a new base image successfully, but when I try to make a reservation, it fails with the error message "cannot update private IP". This is confusing me, because it uses dhcp for the private network.

Virtualizing the Virtualization Server

2011-11-29 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, First, thanks for all the helpful advice. We were able to get up and going thanks to you all. Is it possible to capture the image of the Vmware server itself, and then replicate it to other bare metal server? Is there some documentation on that procedure? Thanks Again, Al Quiros

Re: Images and Connections

2011-11-16 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello everybody, I was able to solve the problem with the SSH session closing immediately. The issue was SELINUX. There was no security profile for the newly created user on the VCL image, so SELINUX closed the session. Just disabling SELINUX on the base image solved the issue. Thanks again fo

Images and Connections

2011-11-15 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, First of all, thanks for all your help so far. I have been able to create a base image, and create new images based on that. The trouble that I am having now is that when I try to connect to the newly created Linux image, the SSH session closes immediately. When I connect to that image d

Re: Image Creation from Base Image

2011-11-15 Thread Evelio Quiros
That¹s great. Looking forward to the new release. But how were you able to manage new images before? Does the problem not exist in other Linux distros ? Q On 11/15/11 12:19 PM, "Josh Thompson" wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Tuesday Nov

Image Creation from Base Image

2011-11-15 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, I was able to successfully capture a base image. I have added the image to the image group. However, when I try to make a reservation, or create a new image, It eventually fails. I watch the VM server and see that a new VM was started. It does start a new VM with the correct MAC addresses,

Re: Base Image creation - problems - PLEASE HELP

2011-11-03 Thread Evelio Quiros
-- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College (413) 542-5451 acob...@amherst.edu<mailto:acob...@amherst.edu> On Nov 2, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello, Ok, I'm stumped. I continue to have issues creating a base image

Base Image creation - problems - PLEASE HELP

2011-11-02 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, Ok, I'm stumped. I continue to have issues creating a base image on our vcl setup. Here is my info: I have a single server running web, management node, and database. It has two interfaces, one on our private network, another on our public net. I have a single Vmware server, also with two

Re: Base Image creation error - Continued

2011-10-25 Thread Evelio Quiros
rl separately. The perl modules are available here -- >just make sure that you download the release that matches your vCenter >version. > >http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/ > >Aaron Coburn > > >On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Evelio Quiros wrote: > &

Re: Base Image creation error - VMware host config

2011-10-25 Thread Evelio Quiros
is happening. If you can give me an error message, I could probably >tell >you what is not configured correctly. > >Josh > >On Tuesday October 25, 2011, Evelio Quiros wrote: >> Yes, that was done. The server is set to vmhostinuse. >> In the "Manage Virtual Hosts&quo

Re: Base Image creation error - VMware host config

2011-10-25 Thread Evelio Quiros
id you set the state to vmhostinuse? > >https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VCL+2.2.1+-+Further+Steps+ >if+Using+VMware > >If not then you'll need to go into the mysql cmdline or phpmyadmin and >set that server to vmhostinuse state and assigne the vmhost profile. > >

Re: Base Image creation error - VMware host config

2011-10-25 Thread Evelio Quiros
//sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/vcl-bootcamp/exercises/assign-a-vm-to- >a-virtual-host > >Aaron > > >On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Evelio Quiros wrote: >> Thank you Aaron. >> >> Ok, now it can resolve the name redhat64base to the private IP address >&g

Re: Base Image creation error - The plot thickens

2011-10-25 Thread Evelio Quiros
r_data(1415)|data has been retrieved for user: admin (id: 1) On 10/25/11 9:04 AM, "Aaron Peeler" wrote: >Al, > >The hostname has to resolve. > >Put an entry in your /etc/hosts file. > >Aaron > >On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Evelio Quiros wrote: >>

Base Image creation error

2011-10-25 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, I am getting an error when I try to capture a linux base image in vcl. I am following the instructions, but perhaps some parts of these may have been misinterpreted. My VCL server is at 10.0.0.1. My Vmware based virtual machine is at 10.0.0.2. I can ssh without passwords using keys from

Adding computer hosts

2011-10-19 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, What do I need in dhcpd.conf when I am adding VM computers to manage? I put in a range of MAC addresses in the web interface, do I need to put those MACs in the dhcpd.conf file ? Thanks. Al Quiros Unix System Administrator Florida International University

vcld setup error

2011-10-14 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, I am working on the initial vcld setup. This is what we get when we run vcld —setup: [root@vcltst bin]# ./vcld --setup VCL Management Node Setup Select a module to configure: [vcld] Make a selection (1, 'c' to ca