[StarCluster] Star cluster not creating instances on Amazon's East Region

[Justin Riley]

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Hi Ramit,

That error comes directly from AWS.

In the case that you don't specify an availability zone in your
cluster config StarCluster first launches the master node, then
determines which zone Amazon chose *within* the us-east-1 region for
the master, and then launches the rest of the nodes using that zone in
order to improve cluster locality. Sometimes if the zone is
overloaded, as you encountered, the request to start the nodes fails.

If you're using external EBS volumes with your cluster then you're
implicitly specifying an availability zone given that volumes can only
be attached to instances within their zone and thus StarCluster must
pick the volume's availability zone as the zone for the entire cluster.

I think it's clear now that we should have an optional flag that
disables trying to launch all instances within the same zone and
simply lets Amazon pick the zone for each node (except for master in
case of EBS volumes). If folks have opinions on this I'd be happy to
hear them...

For the time being, if you're not using external EBS volumes then you
can specify the zone to use when launching a cluster:

$ starcluster start -a us-east-1a mycluster

Otherwise if you're using external EBS volumes you will need to
snapshot your volume and recreate it in another zone that's available
in order for StarCluster to launch the instances in an alternate zone...

HTH,

~Justin

On 07/31/2012 01:20 PM, Erik Gafni wrote:
> It looks like that AWS region is at capacity and physically out of
> those instance types.  Either try different instance types or
> switch regions.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Ramit Bhardwaj 
> <ramit.bhardwaj at sicadinc.com <mailto:ramit.bhardwaj at sicadinc.com>>
> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We are using 'Star cluster' for creating clusters on Amazon Cloud.
> But off late, we are seeing the following error in our logs when we
> try to create a cluster on the US-East region:
> 
> "!!! ERROR - Unsupported: The requested Availability Zone is
> currently constrained and we are no longer accepting new customer
> requests for t1/m1/c1/m2 instance types. Please retry your request
> by not specifying an Availability Zone or choosing us-east-1a,
> us-east-1d, us-east-1c."
> 
> Is there anything that we are missing here? The exact setup was
> working perfectly till last month. We are seeing this problem since
> last one month.
> 
> Also, in the forums i did not see anyone reporting this issue. Are
> there any changes to any policy or something? Please advice.
> 
> Best Regards Ramit _______________________________________________ 
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