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  <article class="specification">
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  <articleinfo>
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    <title>Ganeti installation tutorial</title>
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  </articleinfo>
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  <para>Documents Ganeti version 1.2</para>
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  <sect1>
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    <title>Introduction</title>
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    <para>
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      Ganeti is a cluster virtualization management system based on
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      Xen. This document explains how to bootstrap a Ganeti node (Xen
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      <literal>dom0</literal>), create a running cluster and install
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      virtual instance (Xen <literal>domU</literal>).  You need to
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      repeat most of the steps in this document for every node you
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      want to install, but of course we recommend creating some
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      semi-automatic procedure if you plan to deploy Ganeti on a
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      medium/large scale.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      A basic Ganeti terminology glossary is provided in the
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      introductory section of the <emphasis>Ganeti administrator's
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      guide</emphasis>. Please refer to that document if you are
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      uncertain about the terms we are using.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      Ganeti has been developed for Linux and is
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      distribution-agnostic.  This documentation will use Debian Etch
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      as an example system but the examples can easily be translated
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      to any other distribution.  You are expected to be familiar with
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      your distribution, its package management system, and Xen before
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      trying to use Ganeti.
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    </para>
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    <para>This document is divided into two main sections:
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      <itemizedlist>
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        <listitem>
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          <simpara>Installation of the base system and base
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          components</simpara>
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        </listitem>
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        <listitem>
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          <simpara>Configuration of the environment for
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          Ganeti</simpara>
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        </listitem>
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      </itemizedlist>
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    Each of these is divided into sub-sections. While a full Ganeti
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    system will need all of the steps specified, some are not strictly
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    required for every environment. Which ones they are, and why, is
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    specified in the corresponding sections.
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    </para>
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  </sect1>
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  <sect1>
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    <title>Installing the base system and base components</title>
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      <title>Hardware requirements</title>
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      <para>
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         Any system supported by your Linux distribution is fine.
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         64-bit systems are better as they can support more memory.
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      </para>
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      <para>
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         Any disk drive recognized by Linux
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         (<literal>IDE</literal>/<literal>SCSI</literal>/<literal>SATA</literal>/etc.)
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         is supported in Ganeti. Note that no shared storage
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         (e.g. <literal>SAN</literal>) is needed to get high-availability features. It is
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         highly recommended to use more than one disk drive to improve
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         speed. But Ganeti also works with one disk per machine.
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      <title>Installing the base system</title>
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        <emphasis role="strong">Mandatory</emphasis> on all nodes.
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      </para>
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      <para>
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        It is advised to start with a clean, minimal install of the
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        operating system. The only requirement you need to be aware of
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        at this stage is to partition leaving enough space for a big
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        (<emphasis role="strong">minimum
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        <constant>20GiB</constant></emphasis>) LVM volume group which
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        will then host your instance filesystems. The volume group
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        name Ganeti 1.2 uses (by default) is
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        <emphasis>xenvg</emphasis>.
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      </para>
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      <para>
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        While you can use an existing system, please note that the
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        Ganeti installation is intrusive in terms of changes to the
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        system configuration, and it's best to use a newly-installed
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        system without important data on it.
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      <para>
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        Also, for best results, it's advised that the nodes have as
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        much as possible the same hardware and software
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        configuration. This will make administration much easier.
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        <title>Hostname issues</title>
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        <para>
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          Note that Ganeti requires the hostnames of the systems
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          (i.e. what the <computeroutput>hostname</computeroutput>
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          command outputs to be a fully-qualified name, not a short
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          <literal>node1.example.com</literal> as a hostname and not
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          just <literal>node1</literal>.
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          <title>Debian</title>
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          <para>
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            Note that Debian Etch configures the hostname differently
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            than you need it for Ganeti. For example, this is what
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            Etch puts in <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> in certain
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            situations:
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127.0.0.1       localhost
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127.0.1.1       node1.example.com node1
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          but for Ganeti you need to have:
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<screen>
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127.0.0.1       localhost
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192.168.1.1     node1.example.com node1
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            replacing <literal>192.168.1.1</literal> with your node's
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            address. Also, the file <filename>/etc/hostname</filename>
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            which configures the hostname of the system should contain
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            <literal>node1.example.com</literal> and not just
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            <literal>node1</literal> (you need to run the command
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            <computeroutput>/etc/init.d/hostname.sh
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            start</computeroutput> after changing the file).
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      <title>Installing Xen</title>
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        <emphasis role="strong">Mandatory</emphasis> on all nodes.
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        While Ganeti is developed with the ability to modularly run on
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        different virtualization environments in mind the only one
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        currently useable on a live system is <ulink
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        url="http://xen.xensource.com/">Xen</ulink>. Supported
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        versions are: <simplelist type="inline">
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        <member><literal>3.0.3</literal></member>
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        <member><literal>3.0.4</literal></member>
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        <member><literal>3.1</literal></member> </simplelist>.
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        Please follow your distribution's recommended way to install
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        and set up Xen, or install Xen from the upstream source, if
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        After installing Xen you need to reboot into your xenified
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        dom0 system. On some distributions this might involve
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        configuring GRUB appropriately, whereas others will configure
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        it automatically when you install Xen from a package.
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      <formalpara><title>Debian</title>
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        Under Debian Etch or Sarge+backports you can install the
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        relevant <literal>xen-linux-system</literal> package, which
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        will pull in both the hypervisor and the relevant
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        kernel. Also, if you are installing a 32-bit Etch, you should
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        install the <computeroutput>libc6-xen</computeroutput> package
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        <title>Xen settings</title>
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          It's recommended that dom0 is restricted to a low amount of
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          memory (<constant>512MiB</constant> is reasonable) and that
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          memory ballooning is disabled in the file
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          <filename>/etc/xen/xend-config.sxp</filename> by setting the
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          value <literal>dom0-min-mem</literal> to
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          <computeroutput>(dom0-min-mem 0)</computeroutput>
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          For optimum performance when running both CPU and I/O
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          intensive instances, it's also recommended that the dom0 is
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          restricted to one CPU only, for example by booting with the
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          kernel parameter <literal>nosmp</literal>.
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          <title>Debian</title>
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            Besides the balloning change which you need to set in
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            <filename>/etc/xen/xend-config.sxp</filename>, you need to
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            set the memory and nosmp parameters in the file
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            <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename>. You need to
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            modify the variable <literal>xenhopt</literal> to add
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            <userinput>dom0_mem=512M</userinput> like this:
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## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
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# xenhopt=dom0_mem=512M
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## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
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# xenkopt=nosmp
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          nosmp</computeroutput>, for example. After modifying the
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/sbin/update-grub
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          After you have installed xen, you need to tell Ganeti
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        single-node clusters. You can upgrade a non-HA cluster to an
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        Supported DRBD version: the <literal>0.7</literal>
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    <title>Setting up the environment for Ganeti</title>
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      <title>Configuring the network</title>
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        access from your nodes and have <citerefentry>
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      <title>Initializing the cluster</title>
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        possibilities.
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      <title>Joining the nodes to the cluster</title>
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        other nodes to it. You can do so by executing the following
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        need to configure an additional interface for each node.  Use
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node1.example.com 197404 197404   2047  1896   125     0     0
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    <title>Setting up and managing virtual instances</title>
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      <title>Setting up virtual instances</title>
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        This step shows how to setup a virtual instance with either
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        (<computeroutput>remote_raid1</computeroutput>).  All commands
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        which <computeroutput>gnt-cluster init</computeroutput> was
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        run).  Verify that the OS scripts are present on all cluster
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        nodes with <computeroutput>gnt-os list</computeroutput>.
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        To create a virtual instance, you need a hostname which is
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        resolvable (DNS or <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> on all
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        nodes). The following command will create a non-mirrored
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      <screen>
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gnt-instance add --node=node1 -o debian-etch -t plain inst1.example.com
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* creating instance disks...
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Waiting for instance inst1.example.com to sync disks.
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Instance inst1.example.com's disks are in sync.
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creating os for instance inst1.example.com on node node1.example.com
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* running the instance OS create scripts...
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        <literal>inst1</literal></computeroutput>. There is no
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        to setup the network interface (<literal>eth0</literal> is the
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        the <option>-t</option> option from <literal>plain</literal>
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# gnt-instance add -t remote_raid1 --secondary-node node1 \
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* creating instance disks...
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Waiting for instance instance1 to sync disks.
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- device sdb: 39.80% done, 247 estimated seconds remaining
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- device sdb: 76.30% done, 72 estimated seconds remaining
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- device sdb: 94.80% done, 18 estimated seconds remaining
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creating os for instance instance2 on node node2.example.com
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* starting instance...
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    <sect2>
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      <title>Managing virtual instances</title>
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        All commands need to be executed on the Ganeti master node
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        shutdown
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        <replaceable>INSTANCENAME</replaceable></computeroutput>. To
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        startup an instance, use <computeroutput>gnt-instance startup
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        <replaceable>INSTANCENAME</replaceable></computeroutput>.
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      <para>
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        To failover an instance to its secondary node (only possible
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        in <literal>remote_raid1</literal> setup), use
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        <computeroutput>gnt-instance failover
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        <replaceable>INSTANCENAME</replaceable></computeroutput>.
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      <para>
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        For more instance and cluster administration details, see the
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        <emphasis>Ganeti administrator's guide</emphasis>.
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      </para>
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