Help with Ubuntu 10.10 cloud

[YoungGun21]

My friends and I (mainly just the two of them, not so much me) made a website. They got the idea to switch it from the current server (a free netbook one of them got... yes, they do run a website off of a netbook!) to a new one, which they want to be a cloud server. We didn't really do any research on this, but I'm thinking it is going good so far. We already installed the Cloud Controller and have that set up. We have a Node Controller set up and connected to the cluster.

Now that you know where we are... can anybody really explain where to go from here? The tutorial we found keeps talking about 'creating an image' from the Cloud Controller, and we make the image, but the command to run or open the image fails. It always says Pending for like 10 minutes and then fails. Today I believe it simply said Not Enough Resources or something similar. I'm guessing we also need a Walrus Controller computer? What else?

The Cloud Controller is set up fine as far as we know.

 

[Phantomaniac]

I don't think there's any reason to be running a cloud server if you only have one system hosting content. Why not just run Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition?

 

[PCTC2]

Unless you're going to have at least 4-5 computers (2-3 with VT-x/AMDV) ready to dedicate to this cloud, do not go this method. Just use a dedicated server running Ubuntu straight off OR use VMware ESXi

The minimum to run a cloud is 2 computers, with a computer running administrative duties only. IMO, this is a waste of computing resources at this point, and only if you add more nodes will it become useful. You need:
1) A Cloud Controller (you can install the Walrus controller, and cluster/storage controller on this same system)
2) A computing node with VT-x/AMDV
This is bare minimums, remember. You can split off the cluster controllers and Walrus controller to a separate systems. None of these systems will run images. Only your computing nodes on the private network will run images.

As per my previous suggestion, you can run a straight Ubuntu system, or if your system has VT-x/AMDV, you can use VMware ESXi. This is a standalone virtualization hypervisor, allowing you to run multiple virtual machines off a single system without a full host OS (domain0). It's free from VMware.

 

[YoungGun21]

Unless you're going to have at least 4-5 computers (2-3 with VT-x/AMDV) ready to dedicate to this cloud, do not go this method. Just use a dedicated server running Ubuntu straight off OR use VMware ESXi

The minimum to run a cloud is 2 computers, with a computer running administrative duties only. IMO, this is a waste of computing resources at this point, and only if you add more nodes will it become useful. You need:
1) A Cloud Controller (you can install the Walrus controller, and cluster/storage controller on this same system)
2) A computing node with VT-x/AMDV
This is bare minimums, remember. You can split off the cluster controllers and Walrus controller to a separate systems. None of these systems will run images. Only your computing nodes on the private network will run images.

As per my previous suggestion, you can run a straight Ubuntu system, or if your system has VT-x/AMDV, you can use VMware ESXi. This is a standalone virtualization hypervisor, allowing you to run multiple virtual machines off a single system without a full host OS (domain0). It's free from VMware.

But if we did have 5 computers ready to send to the clouds... how do we get the image to run on the nodes?

 

[PCTC2]

But if we did have 5 computers ready to send to the clouds... how do we get the image to run on the nodes?

Did you read this HowTo in Ubuntu's doc?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/PackageInstallSeparate

 

[YoungGun21]

We did.

Since we are about to all head back to school, we just installed the regular Ubuntu Server Edition on one of the computers, and we are going to try to build up our fleet and revisit the cloud this summer.