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
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 DVD. This DVD will be used for
installation on all physical machines in your cloud.
