Eucalyptus - Installation Manual

Hannes Gamper and Tomi Pievilinen a December 3, 2009, Espoo

Contents
1 Introduction 2 Requirements 3 Installation 3.1 Install 3.2 Step 1 3.3 Step 2 3.4 Step 3 3.5 Step 4 procedure Ubuntu 9.10 Server edition and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud - Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - System Installation and Conguration . . . . . . . . . . - Registering UEC Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - Initial Login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3

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1 Introduction
Cloud computing systems provide users with access to large amounts of computational resources and data [4]. Virtualisation is used to hide information like physical location and architectural details of the resources from the user. Eucalyptus is an open-source software framework for cloud computing implementing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It is tailored for the use in the research community. Users can run and control virtual machine instances on a variety of physical resources found within academic settings.

2 Requirements
Eucalyptus can be installed via the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, introduced in Ubuntu 9.04 [3]. The following installation instructions are based on Ubuntu 9.10 Server edition. In terms of hardware requirements recommended minimum specication is a a dual-core 2.2 GHz processor with virtualization extension (Intel-VT or AMD-V), 4GB RAM and 100 GB hard drive.

3 Installation procedure Ubuntu 9.10, server edition dual-core 2.2 GHz processor with virtualization extension (Intel-VT or AMD-V), 4GB RAM and 100 GB hard drive. port 22 needs to be open for admins (for maintenance) port 8443 needs to be open for users for controlling and sending requests to the cloud via a web interface

3 Installation procedure
The installation instructions in this manual closely follow those given on the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud homepage [2], with some remarks regarding installation from scratch via the Ubuntu 9.10 server edition. Execute the following steps to install Eucalyptus:

3.1 Install Ubuntu 9.10 Server edition and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud
download the Ubuntu 9.10 Server edition and install it during the Ubuntu installation procedure, select installing UEC (Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud) to install Eucalyptus after successful installation, update the software and restart your computer: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade

3.2 Step 1 - Prerequisites

set up mailhost ensure eucalyptus-cloud and eucalyptus-cc are installed and updated

3.3 Step 2 - System Installation and Conguration

install the eucalyptus node controller: $ sudo apt-get install eucalyptus-nc set up a bridge as the nodes primary interface: edit /etc/network/interfaces to look as follows: $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop $ sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

3 Installation procedure

auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto br0 iface br0 inet dhcp bridge_ports eth0 bridge_fd 9 bridge_hello 2 bridge_maxage 12 bridge_stp off Restart the network: $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking start Now congure Eucalyptus: Edit /etc/sysctl.conf according to the UEC tutorial [2] $ sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf

3.4 Step 3 - Registering UEC Components

register a cluster and register your node with the cluster $ sudo euca_conf -addcluster <clustername> localhost $ sudo euca_conf -addnode <node_hostname>

3.5 Step 4 - Initial Login

Initial login: cannot be done remotely, has to be done locally: establish an SSH tunnel into cloud controller and access the cloud controller using a web browser $ ssh <username>@<cloud-controller> -L localport:localhost:8443 open a web browser window and type https://<localhost>:<localport>/ on the login page, download the X.509 certicate, to allow the command line tools to authenticate themselves against the cloud controller set up EC2 API and AMI (see howto [1]) now the users can access the clouds http-page to register (necessary!) and use the EC2 tools

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References
[1] Amazon. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - command line tools reference. http: //docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/, 2009. [2] UEC Community. UEC - Community Ubuntu documentation. https://help. ubuntu.com/community/UEC, October 2009. [3] Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. http://www.ubuntu.com/ products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/cloud/uec, 2009. [4] D. Nurmi, R. Wolski, C. Grzegorczyk, G. Obertelli, S. Soman, L. Youse, and D. Zagorodnov. The eucalyptus open-source cloud-computing system. In Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2009. CCGRID 09. 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on, pages 124131, May 2009.