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Ganeti quick installation guide

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Please note that a more detailed installation procedure is described in

the :doc:`install`. A glossary of terms can be found in the

:doc:`glossary`.

Software Requirements

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Before installing, please verify that you have the following programs:

- `Xen Hypervisor <http://www.xen.org/>`_, version 3.0 or above, if

  running on Xen

- `KVM Hypervisor <http://www.linux-kvm.org>`_, version 72 or above, if

  running on KVM. In order to use advanced features, such as live

  migration, virtio, etc, an even newer version is recommended (qemu-kvm

  versions 0.11.X or above have shown good behavior).

- `DRBD <http://www.drbd.org/>`_, kernel module and userspace utils,

  version 8.0.7 or above

- `LVM2 <http://sourceware.org/lvm2/>`_

- `OpenSSH <http://www.openssh.com/portable.html>`_

- `bridge utilities <http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bridge>`_

- `iproute2 <http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Iproute2>`_

- `arping <http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/>`_ (part of iputils)

- `Python <http://www.python.org/>`_, version 2.4 or above, not 3.0

- `Python OpenSSL bindings <http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/>`_

- `simplejson Python module <http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/>`_

- `pyparsing Python module <http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/>`_

- `pyinotify Python module <http://trac.dbzteam.org/pyinotify/>`_

- `PycURL Python module <http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/>`_

- `ctypes Python module

  <http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/>`_, if running on

  python 2.4 (optional, used for node daemon memory locking)

- `socat <http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/>`_

- `Paramiko <http://www.lag.net/paramiko/>`_, if you want automated SSH

  setup; optional otherwise but manual setup of the nodes required

These programs are supplied as part of most Linux distributions, so

usually they can be installed via the standard package manager. Also

many of them will already be installed on a standard machine. On

Debian/Ubuntu, you can use this command line to install all required

packages, except for DRBD and Xen::

  $ apt-get install lvm2 ssh bridge-utils iproute iputils-arping \

                    python python-pyopenssl openssl python-pyparsing \

                    python-simplejson python-pyinotify python-pycurl \

                    socat

If you want to build from source, please see doc/devnotes.rst for more

dependencies.

Installation of the software

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To install, simply run the following command::

  ./configure --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc && \

  make && \

  make install

This will install the software under ``/usr/local``. You then need to

copy ``doc/examples/ganeti.initd`` to ``/etc/init.d/ganeti`` and

integrate it into your boot sequence (``chkconfig``, ``update-rc.d``,

etc.).

Cluster initialisation

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Before initialising the cluster, on each node you need to create the

following directories:

- ``/etc/ganeti``

- ``/var/lib/ganeti``

- ``/var/log/ganeti``

- ``/srv/ganeti``

- ``/srv/ganeti/os``

- ``/srv/ganeti/export``

After this, use ``gnt-cluster init``.

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