Welcome

Welcome to the FastStart Guide. This guide provides instructions for installing Eucalyptus in two different configurations:

Cloud-in-a-box: a Eucalyptus cloud with all components on a single machine
Frontend and Node Controllers: a Eucalyptus cloud with all Frontend components on a single system, and one or more Node Controllers on separate machines

Overview

Eucalyptus consists of the following components:

Cloud Controller (CLC): this component provides EC2 functionality
Walrus: this component provides S3 functionality
Cluster Controller (CC): this component provides management service for a cluster in your cloud
Storage Controller (SC): this component provides EBS functionality
Node Controller (NC): this component controls virtual machine instances

In the Frontend+NC configuration, the CLC, Walrus, CC, and SC are installed on one machine, called the Frontend. The NC is installed on another machine, called the Node. In this configuration you can have one Frontend and one or more Nodes.

In the Cloud-in-a-box configuration, all components are installed on one machine.

Hardware Requirements

Before installing FastStart in the Cloud-in-a-box configuration, make sure you have a machine with:

a minimum of 200GB of disk space
a minimum of 4GB of memory
at least one ethernet NIC

Before installing FastStart in the Frontend+NC configuration, make sure you have at least two machines with:

a minimum of 100GB of disk space
a minimum of 4GB of memory
at least one ethernet NIC

Test that each machine allows SSH login and that root access is available (sudo is okay).

Network Requirements

You must have access to the internet.
You must be able to assign static IP addresses within your network.
You must set aside a static IP address for each physical system.
You must set aside a range of available public IP addresses. Eucalyptus will assign these to VM instances.
You must set aside a large range of available private IP addresses. These will be used by a virtual subnet. They can not overlap or contain any part of a physical network IP address space. Note: Eucalyptus will set aside, by default, the subnet 172.16.0.0 unless you choose to set different values.

A sample set of IP addresses might go as follows:

192.168.1.98 for the Frontend system
192.168.1.99 for the first Node Controller
192.168.1.100 for the second Node Controller
192.168.1.101-192.168.1.149 for the public IP address range

Software Requirements

You must have access to the Eucalyptus FastStart ISO. You can get the FastStart ISO from http://www.eucalyptus.com/download/faststart. You should then burn this ISO to a CD or DVD. This media type, either CD or DVD, will be used for installation on all physical machines in your cloud.