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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Stackers - Any other inputs on launching servers on AWS servers ?<br><br><div>> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 07:54:33 -0800<br>> From: steve.heistand@nasa.gov<br>> To: mridhul@live.com; openstack@lists.openstack.org<br>> Subject: Re: [<span id="a5c08627-1e65-482d-addd-11d0dadd40af" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8f72c4c2-36eb-48c7-9009-26f0fed2bea4" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">Openstack</span>] <span id="cd231520-a6cd-4a74-80d3-76b92f89b407" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8f72c4c2-36eb-48c7-9009-26f0fed2bea4" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">Openstack</span> with AWS integration<br>> <br>> I found it was easier to abstract up a layer. I have a single interface (Altair's PBS) that can launch <span id="3fe8bb8e-9d43-470d-81bc-a84f79559149" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c10953fb-013d-4389-bcca-bfcff8cad358" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">onto</span><br>> <span id="3c776798-34ae-4f37-bd2b-bb50a96bc59b" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8fe1fdba-21f9-4043-8c37-7a886b0ee4d7" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">either</span> local <span id="4944d35f-a4ee-4f97-a6f6-b3b644e85c6c" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8fe1fdba-21f9-4043-8c37-7a886b0ee4d7" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">openstack</span> hardware or out onto EC2 instances. <br>> <br>> Both Altair and Bright Computing make software that can do this for you quite nicely.<br>> There might be others too, but of course neither are free.<br>> <br>> But if you look at the whole compute environment from the point of view of a batch system (<span id="e3daf436-db45-4970-a08e-78150791c44d" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="44456662-648d-47f8-8ff2-d7bd0c5acc0d" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">pbs</span>/<span id="da3cfb5a-1029-4302-aec4-b5b5e1516553" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="44456662-648d-47f8-8ff2-d7bd0c5acc0d" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">slurm</span>/<span id="fb5d677f-b9d2-44df-88f0-3601f25e4eaa" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="44456662-648d-47f8-8ff2-d7bd0c5acc0d" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">etc</span>)<br>> <span id="0de43f61-bba8-45ee-9b06-2b47831f4c22" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3eee629f-3a47-4834-b868-2757743f640b" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">its</span> fairly easy to create the scripts/hooks that can create instances either in local <span id="06989663-d8af-4abe-bf12-2a2e9f086f8a" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3eee629f-3a47-4834-b868-2757743f640b" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">openstack</span> or EC2.<br>> <br>> But if there are other more robust options I would be interested in other 'stackers' opinions.<br>> <br>> <span id="4fb6c121-08cc-4853-a5cc-9aeb58811064" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="45d7aa79-8adf-49d1-9a6f-01b9ebb30edc" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">steve</span><br>> <br>> <br>> On 11/26/2013 05:47 AM, Mridhul Pax wrote:<br>> > Hello Stackers,<br>> > Need your inputs on provisioning VMs on the AWS infrastructure. We have a requirement where we need to have a single portal and provision VMs on AWS. Is it possible on <span id="c97bf1d2-9d10-4d7d-b83b-aa4c8edd07b5" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e6a885a8-a340-45a5-84fd-835cad02cffe" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">Openstack</span> ?<br>> > Any guidance or pointers will be helpful.<br>> > <span id="177e8aa3-8bee-4ffb-a6c7-e7520b4e8c3c" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d7bc8ce3-19ce-4653-8e0a-6086d461d1bd" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">RegardsMridhul</span> <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack<br>> > Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org<br>> > Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack<br>> > <br>> <br>> -- <br>> ************************************************************************<br>> Steve Heistand NASA Ames Research Center<br>> <span id="6901795e-8c8d-43a0-b933-3327b7379159" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5bf6606c-cbc5-46e2-ada8-be4890cb9fec" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">SciCon</span> Group Mail Stop 258-6<br>> steve.heistand@nasa.gov (650) 604-4369 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000<br>> ************************************************************************<br>> "Any opinions expressed are those of our alien overlords, not my own."<br>> <br>> # For Remedy #<br>> #Action: Resolve #<br>> #Resolution: Resolved #<br>> #Reason: No Further Action Required #<br>> #Tier1: User Code #<br>> #Tier2: Other #<br>> #Tier3: Assistance #<br>> #Notification: None #<br>> <br>> <br></div> </div></body>
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