[StarCluster] Little question

Sergey Panitkin panitkin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 16:06:02 EDT 2012


Sergio,

I've used SC to build custom AMIs many times - works very well.
And my images are usually  based on stock Amazon AMIs, not the standard 
SC images.
BTW the suggestion to automate/script  your build is a very good one.

Cheers,
        Sergey

On 6/25/2012 8:21 PM, Sergio Mafra wrote:
> C'mon friends.
>
> Need some help here.
> Simple question: Building an image from the current instance that I'm 
> using in the StarCluster will work or not as a golden image for next 
> clusters configuration?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Sergio
>
>
> Em quarta-feira, 13 de junho de 2012, Sergio Mafra escreveu:
>
>     Hi fellows,
>
>     After lauching the cluster using StarCluster, we did some custom
>     installation on that. Now we want to make it our customized AMI
>     since we will need it as base for adding and removing nodes as the
>     load of cluster asks for.
>     If I build an image of this current AMI using AWS Console,
>     terminate the current cluster and relaunch it using the new
>     customized AMI... will it work?
>
>     All the best and sorry for this newbie questions..
>
>     Sergio
>
>     On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Sergio Mafra
>     <sergiohmafra at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>     'sergiohmafra at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>         Thanks.
>
>         Em segunda-feira, 11 de junho de 2012, Ron Chen escreveu:
>
>             Basically, I think the idea is that StarCluster users can
>             do everything with the StarCluster command line, with no
>             dependencies on the AWS Console.
>
>              -Ron
>
>
>
>             ----- Original Message -----
>             From: Dustin Machi <dmachi at vbi.vt.edu>
>             To: Sergio Mafra <sergiohmafra at gmail.com>
>             Cc: starcluster at mit.edu
>             Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 2:39 PM
>             Subject: Re: [StarCluster] Little question
>
>             It is a multistep process, so the star cluster command
>             just makes it convenient.
>
>             Dustin
>
>             On Jun 11, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Sergio Mafra wrote:
>
>             > Dear Friends,
>             >
>             > We will need to have a AMI customized for our particular
>             needs. Reading the StarCluster docs a doubt arises...What
>             is the difference of preparing a customized AMI using
>             command "starcluster ebsimage i-999999 mynewAMI" or create
>             image from AWS Console?
>             >
>             > All the best,
>             > Sergio
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