[StarCluster] Volume questions

[Brian Osborne]

Hugh,

Yes, the EBS I'm trying to use is available in us-east-1d and I specify "AWS_REGION_NAME = us-east-1" in my .starcluster/config.

Thanks again,

Brian O.



On Jan 27, 2013, at 4:28 PM, "MacMullan, Hugh" <hughmac at wharton.upenn.edu> wrote:

> Hi Brian:
> 
> Is it in the same Availability Zone (us-east-1[abc] as the cluster that is trying to mount it?
> 
> Yes you can use any volume, however created, assuming the OS can mount it (it has a file system, etc)
> 
> That's all I got! :)
> -Hugh
> 
> On Jan 27, 2013, at 3:43 PM, "Brian Osborne" <bosborne11 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> All,
>> 
>> I've created an EBS in us-east-1d that I can attach, detach, mount and mount on various EC2 instances. I can see that it's "available" in console.aws.amazon.com. But when I try to use it in a cluster I see:
>> 
>>>>> Validating cluster template settings...
>> !!! ERROR - volume vol-2a717454 does not exist
>> 
>> Here's some excerpts from my config:
>> 
>> AWS_REGION_NAME = us-east-1
>> 
>> VOLUMES = bio
>> 
>> [volume bio]
>> VOLUME_ID = vol-2a717454
>> MOUNT_PATH = /bio
>> 
>> On the other hand I can use "createvolume". I guess I have 2 questions:
>> 
>> - can I use the EBS I've created by hand?
>> - if not, what's the best way of getting the content of my EBS into the volume I create using "createvolume"?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Brian O.
>> 
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