Changes between Version 13 and Version 14 of UsersGuide

Timestamp:

Oct 16, 2012 6:59:43 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Ted Faber

Comment:

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UsersGuide

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 The physical node {{{n-9}}} shows up in the DETER visualization, and otherwise acts as a physical node that is in a 11-node topology.  This experiment uses three different container types: physical nodes, ViewOS processes, and Qemu VMs.
 
+=== Setting Openvz Parameters ===
+
+An advantage of openvz nodes is that the OS flavor and CPU bit-width can be set across experiments and per-node.  Similarly the size of the disk allocated to each node can be set.  
+
+Openvz uses templates to look like various linux installations.  The choices of Linux distribution that openvz supports are:
+
+|| __Template__ || __Distribution__ || __Bit-width__ ||
+|| centos-6-x86 || CentOS 6 || 32 bit ||
+|| centos-6-x86_64 || CentOS 6 || 64 bit ||
+|| debian-6.0-x86 || Debian || 32 bit ||
+|| debian-6.0-x86_64 || Debian || 64 bit ||
+|| fedora-16-x86 || Fedora 16 || 32 bit ||
+|| fedora-16-x86_64 || Fedora 16 || 64 bit ||
+|| fedora-17-x86 || Fedora 17 || 32 bit ||
+|| fedora-17-x86_64 || Fedora 17 || 64 bit ||
+|| scientific-6-x86 || [https://www.scientificlinux.org/ Scientific Linux] || 32 bit ||
+|| scientific-6-x86_64 || [https://www.scientificlinux.org/ Scientific Linux] || 64 bit ||
+|| ubuntu-10.04-x86 || Ubuntu 10.04 LTS || 32 bit ||
+|| ubuntu-10.04-x86_64 || Ubuntu 10.04 LTS || 64 bit ||
+|| ubuntu-12.04-x86 || Ubuntu 12.04 LTS || 32 bit ||
+|| ubuntu-12.04-x86_64 || Ubuntu 12.04 LTS || 64 bit ||
+
+By default the {{{ubuntu-10.04-x86}}} template is used.
+
+To set a template across an entire topology, give {{{--openvz-template}}} and the template name from the list above.  Invoking {{{containerize.py}}} on [attachment:example1.tcl our original example] as below will instantiate the experiment under 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04:
+
+{{{
+users:~$ /share/containers/containerize.py --openvz-template ubuntu-12.04-x86_64 DeterTest example1 ~/example1.tcl 
+Containerized experiment DeterTest/example1 successfully created!
+Access it via http://www.isi.deterlab.net//showexp.php3?pid=DeterTest&eid=example1
+}}}
+
+We can set the size of the file system of containers in the experiment using {{{--openvz-diskspace}}}.  The value of the parameter is determined by the suffix:
+
+|| __Suffix__ || Value ||
+|| G || Gigabytes ||
+|| M || Megabytes ||
+
+The most practical suffix for DETER nodes is "G":
+
+{{{
+users:~$ /share/containers/containerize.py --openvz-diskspace 15G DeterTest example1 ~/example1.tcl 
+Containerized experiment DeterTest/example1 successfully created!
+Access it via http://www.isi.deterlab.net//showexp.php3?pid=DeterTest&eid=example1
+}}}
+
+Each of these parameters can be set on individual nodes using attributes.  The attribute to set a template on a node is {{{containers:openvz_template}} and the attribute to set the disk space is {{{containers:openvz_diskspace}}}.
+
 === Changing The Packing Factor ===