[StarCluster] newbie problems

[Manal Helal]

Thank you very much Justin & Rayson,

I didn't notice that they mean the attached volume, I thought they mean the
image itself and the instance type.

thanks for the explanation,

Kind Regards,

Manal

On 21 May 2012 02:58, Justin Riley <jtriley at mit.edu> wrote:

> You can also use StarCluster to list your volumes:
>
> $ starcluster listvolumes
>
> If you only want details on a single volume:
>
> $ starcluster listvolumes -v vol-999999
>
> You can also filter volumes by status, size, zone, snapshot id, etc.
> Pass --help to the listvolumes command for more details.
>
> HTH,
>
> ~Justin
>
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:34:54AM -0400, Rayson Ho wrote:
> > You are attaching an external EBS volume that is in us-east-1c, so you
> > can't have your instances in us-east-1a.
> >
> > If you are not sure which zone your EBS vol is in, log onto the AWS
> > Management Console, and go to Elastic Block Store -> Volumes. Then
> > click on the volume you want to attach to the cluster, and zone will
> > be displayed together with other information related to the volume.
> >
> >
> > Also, see: http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
> >
> >  "Amazon EBS volumes are placed in a specific Availability Zone, and
> > can then be attached to instances also in that same Availability
> > Zone."
> >
> > Rayson
> >
> > ================================
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> >
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> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Manal Helal <manal.helal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > to be comprehensive:
> > >
> > > when I change the aws info configuration:
> > >
> > > AWS_REGION_NAME = us-east-1a
> > > #AWS_REGION_HOST = ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (tried changing this
> and had
> > > errors)
> > >
> > > and then in the cluster configuration:
> > >
> > > AVAILABILITY_ZONE = us-east-1a
> > >
> > > I get these errors
> > >
> > > !!! ERROR - Cluster settings are not valid:
> > > !!! ERROR - availability_zone setting 'us-east-1a' does not match the
> > > !!! ERROR - common volume zone 'us-east-1c'
> > >
> > >
> > > I practically tried all possible variations between these three
> arguments,
> > > and I get the above error and the other error without anyone connecting
> > > since three days now. While the same configuration file and using the
> > > default region, or us-east-1 only, and I think us-east-1c also was
> > > successful in connecting before,
> > >
> > > thanks again for your support,
> > >
> > > Manal
> > >
> > > On 20 May 2012 16:28, Manal Helal <manal.helal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi Rayson,
> > >>
> > >> Thanks again. Now even away from bidding, and using the same
> configuration
> > >> file that connected successfully 3 days ago,
> > >>
> > >> I am consistently now getting this error:
> > >>
> > >> !!! ERROR - Unsupported: Your requested instance type (cg1.4xlarge)
> is not
> > >> supported in your requested Availability Zone (us-east-1c). Please
> retry
> > >> your request by not specifying an Availability Zone or choosing
> us-east-1a.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I do as it says, and remove any region specifications, or specify the
> > >> "us-east-1a" region at says, and it still keep coming back with the
> same
> > >> error,  3 days now without successful connection with bidding and
> without. I
> > >> am not sure how to solve that
> > >>
> > >> I appreciate your support very much.
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >
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