SCI-CD

h1. SETUP

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Ensure both nodes are up.

If you planning to use the secondary network for SAN and DRBD synchronization, you

should configure secondary IP interfaces manually on both nodes at this time.

Log in to the first node via ssh. Due to lack of DNS there may be

a minute timeout before password prompt.

h2. NETWORK CONFIGURATION

Network configuration may be highly various.

Here we describe several schemas.

h3. Default schema

one ethernet, one subnet, internet connection provided by external (not in claster) router.

By default installer create bridge named xen-br0. You can customize parameters by editing /etc/network/interfaces.

By default it looks like:

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auto xen-br0

iface xen-br0 inet static

        address 192.168.5.88

        netmask 255.255.255.0

        network 192.168.5.0

        broadcast 192.168.5.255

        gateway 192.168.5.1

        bridge_ports eth0

        bridge_stp off

        bridge_fd 0

#       up ifconfig eth0 mtu 9000

#       up ifconfig xen-br0 mtu 9000

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Important parameters besides ipv4 settings is:

bridge_ports eth0 - means that physical interface eth0 enslaved to this bridge.

up ifconfig eth0 mtu 9000

up ifconfig xen-br0 mtu 9000 - setting jumbo frame on bridge for more net speed and less cpu utilization.

It will be actual on interface where drbd link will be.

However, setting mtu higher than 1500 will cause problems with any network equipment that

doesn't support jumbo frames. That's the reason because it option commented out by default.

Also it is important to specify broadcast and network adresses - it will help automatically

fullfill /etc/ganeti/networks file(a file that specify networks for instances).

However, it ins't required.

h3. Mupltiple bridges with routing

Here is a bit more complicated network setup.

In this setup we have, for example, two private netwokrs and wan by ethernet. All routing and firewalling

performed by instance in our cluster. This setup fit when you don't have expensive hardware routers and firewalls.

This is /etc/network/interfaces file in this setup:

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auto xen-br0

iface xen-br0 inet static

        address 192.168.5.88

        netmask 255.255.255.0

        network 192.168.5.0

        broadcast 192.168.5.255

        gateway 192.168.5.1

        bridge_ports eth0

        bridge_stp off

        bridge_fd 0

#       up ifconfig eth0 mtu 9000

#       up ifconfig xen-br0 mtu 9000

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h2. DEFINING ENVIRONMENT

Edit @/etc/sci/sci.conf@

* You should specify node1 and node2 data as you have installed them.

*NOTE*: You can setup the cluster even with one node. In this case just leave NODE2_

lines as is. In fact this is a dangerous setup, so you will be warned about this duging

the procedures.

* You should specify the cluster's name and IP.

* NODE#_SAN_IP should be specified on both nodes or none.

* If you haven't Internet uplink or have a local package mirrors, you should correct

APT_ - settings.

* If you need to uplink to the DNS hierarchy other than root hint zones, specify DNS_FORWARDERS

(note trailing ';').

h2. SETUP CLUSTER

Issue:

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# sci-setup cluster

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Check and confirm settings printed.

The process will go on.

Next you will be prompted to accept ssh key from node2 and for the root's password to node2.

On finish you will look something like this:

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Verify

Wed Jan 12 15:36:10 2011 * Verifying global settings

Wed Jan 12 15:36:10 2011 * Gathering data (1 nodes)

Wed Jan 12 15:36:11 2011 * Verifying node status

Wed Jan 12 15:36:11 2011 * Verifying instance status

Wed Jan 12 15:36:11 2011 * Verifying orphan volumes

Wed Jan 12 15:36:11 2011 * Verifying orphan instances

Wed Jan 12 15:36:11 2011 * Verifying N+1 Memory redundancy

Wed Jan 12 15:36:11 2011 * Other Notes

Wed Jan 12 15:36:11 2011 * Hooks Results

Node                    DTotal  DFree MTotal MNode MFree Pinst Sinst

gnt1.ganeti.example.org 100.0G 100.0G  1020M  379M  625M     0     0

gnt2.ganeti.example.org 100.0G 100.0G  1020M  379M  625M     0     0

If all is ok, proceed with /usr/local/sbin/sci-setup service

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h2. SETUP SERVICE INSTANCE

The service instance is named 'sci' and have a few aliases.

On setup, it's IP address is determined from @/etc/resolv.conf@ of your first node.

This instance will be hardcoded in @/etc/hosts@ file of all cluster nodes and instances.

Issue:

<pre>

# sci-setup service

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You'll see the progress of DRBD syncing disks, then the message

<pre>

* running the instance OS create scripts...

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appears. The further may take a while. The process finishes with

<pre>

* starting instance...

</pre>

message.

Now you can log on to the sci instance using:

<pre>

# gnt-instance console sci

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Log in as root, the password is empty.

*NOTE*: Due to empty password all remote connections to new instance is prohibited.

You should change password and install @openssh-server@ package manually after

successful bootstrap procedure.

h2. SERVICE INSTANCE BOOTSTRAP

The system will setup itself via puppet. This is the iterative process. You can monitor

it by looking into @/var/log/daemon.log@. At start there is no @less@ command yet, so

you can use @more@, @cat@, @tail@ or @tail -f@ until @less@ will be auto-installed.

By default the iterations are repeated in 20 minutes. To shorten the wait time you can

issue

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# /etc/init.d/puppet restart

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and then look into @daemon.log@ how it finishes.

Repeat this a few times until puppet will do nothing in turn.

h2. PREPARING FOR NEW INSTANCES

New instances are created just by regular Ganeti commands such as:

<pre>

gnt-instance add -t drbd -o debootstrap+default -s 10g -B memory=256m -n NODE1_NAME:NODE2_NAME INSTANCE_NAME

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Altought, some tuning hooks are provided by SCI-CD project:

# Each instance has installed @puppet@ for autoconfiguration and @openssh-client@ for file transfers etc.

# The instance uses pygrub to boot kernel from /vmlinuz & Co on the innstance's own disk.

# The instance's network interfaces may be set up automatically as described below.

h3. INSTANCE INTERFACE AUTOCONFIGURATION

If your instances may sit on several networks and you need static addressing in them, you should fulfill

the file @/etc/ganeti/networks@ with all known networks you want to attach your instances.

Each line in the file has format

|NETWORK|NETMASK|BROADCAST|GATEWAY|

Ganeti instance debootstrap hook looks in this file for the network, mathing the address of bootstraped

instance and fulfill it's @/etc/network/interfaces@ accordingly.

*NOTE*: If you have only one default network, you shouldn't care because it's data are preinstalled.

*NOTE*: networks file must be copied to all cluster nodes (not automated yet).

h2. SCI OPERATIONS

Read [[OPERATIONS]] next.