[StarCluster] starcluster on EBS quick start

[Justin Riley]

Hi Liang,

What is the error you're getting when you run "starcluster start -x" on
the same cluster?

~Justin

On 01/06/2012 03:46 AM, liang cheng wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Does starcluster have a quick start how to use EBS to create/backup the
> images ?
>  
> I installed starcluster 0.93. After some simple changes following this
> link http://web.mit.edu/stardev/cluster/docs/latest/quickstart.html, I'm
> able to start and stop a cluster. But I got error when "starcluster
> start -x " the same cluster.
>  
> Can someone give me a pointer ?
>  
> Thanks,
> -Liang
>  
> 
> 
>  
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin at yahoo.com
> <mailto:raysonlogin at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Nicolas,
> 
>     Micro instances can only support launching from an EBS based AMI, as
>     t1.micro cannot use the local disk (it is a designed feature, not a
>     bug). Gpucluster works because the instance type can use the disk
>     local to the node.
> 
> 
>     Can you check the image and see if it is EBS-based or S3-based??
> 
> 
>     Rayson
> 
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> 
> 
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Nicolas Pinto <nicolas.pinto at gmail.com
>     <mailto:nicolas.pinto at gmail.com>>
>     To: starcluster <starcluster at mit.edu <mailto:starcluster at mit.edu>>
>     Cc:
>     Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 12:07 PM
>     Subject: Re: [StarCluster] Using Starcluster with micro instances?
> 
>     Cc'ing the mailing list.
> 
>     On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Nicolas Pinto
>     <nicolas.pinto at gmail.com <mailto:nicolas.pinto at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Quick question from:
>     > http://forum.cs264.org/index.php?topic=411.0
>     >
>     > There seems to be an issue when trying t1.micro with StarCluster
>     AMIs, e.g.:
>     >
>     > % ec2-run-instances -key kp ami-bf5eb9d6 -t t1.micro
>     > Client.UnsupportedOperation: AMI 'ami-bf5eb9d6' with an instance-store
>     > root device is not supported for the instance type 't1.micro'.
>     >
>     > I'm having the same issue.
> 
> 
> 
>     --
>     Nicolas Pinto
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