Installing Eucalyptus (1.5.1) on openSUSE 11

Eucalyptus can be installed on openSUSE 11 using binary RPM packages.

Download RPMs

Eucalyptus binary installation is broken up into several packages: the cloud controller (-cloud package), the cluster controller (-cc package), and the node controller (-nc package). To simplify installation, everything is bundled into a single "tarball" for convenience, wherein we include copies of third-party packages that Eucalyptus depends on (Rampart, Axis2C, many Java libraries).

Download the appropriate tarball from http://open.eucalyptus.com/downloads

  • For 32-bit machines, get eucalyptus-1.5.1-opensuse-i386.tar.gz
  • For 64-bit machines, get eucalyptus-1.5.1-opensuse-x86_64.tar.gz

Untar the bundle in a temporary location: 

tar zxvf eucalyptus-1.5.1-*.tar.gz
cd eucalyptus-1.5.1-*

All others dependencies are present in the standard repositories.

Prerequisites

If you start with a standard openSUSE installation, you will satisfy all Eucalyptus prerequsites with the following steps:

  1. Front-end, node and client machine system clocks are syncronized (i.e. using NTP).
  2. Node has a fully installed and configured installation of Xen.
    • RECOMMENDED: verify your Xen installation by manually bringing up a VM and testing that it has network connectivity using bridged networking.
  3. Firewall rules must permit the Eucalyptus components to communicate with one another, and clients to communicate with Eucalyptus.
    • NOTE: on the front-end, ports 8443, 8773, 8774 must be open. On the node, port 8775 must be open

Install RPMs on the front end

In the examples below we use x86_64, which should be replaced with i586 on 32-bit architectures.

Install the third-party dependency RPMs: 

cd eucalyptus-1.5.1-rpm-deps-x86_64
rpm -Uvh aoetools-25-2.49.x86_64.rpm \
         euca-axis2c-1.5-1.x86_64.rpm \
         euca-httpd-1.5-1.x86_64.rpm \
         vblade-15-2.49.x86_64.rpm
cd ..

On front end, where cloud controller and cluster controller will run, install the -cloud and -cc RPMs: 

rpm -Uvh eucalyptus-1.5.1-1.x86_64.rpm \
         eucalyptus-cloud-1.5.1-1.x86_64.rpm \
         eucalyptus-gl-1.5.1-1.x86_64.rpm \
         eucalyptus-cc-1.5.1-1.x86_64.rpm

Install RPMs on the nodes

Install the dependency packages on each node: 

cd eucalyptus-1.5.1-rpm-deps-x86_64
rpm -Uvh aoetools-25-2.49.x86_64.rpm \
         euca-axis2c-1.5-1.x86_64.rpm \
         euca-httpd-1.5-1.x86_64.rpm \
         vblade-15-2.49.x86_64.rpm
cd ..

On the compute nodes, install the node controller RPM with dependencies: 

rpm -Uvh eucalyptus-1.5.1-1.x86_64.rpm \
         eucalyptus-gl-1.5.1-1.x86_64.rpm \
         eucalyptus-nc-1.5.1-1.x86_64.rpm

OPTIONAL: Other Configurations

If you would like to run Eucalyptus as a non-root user, perform the following procedure:

  1. Stop all Eucalyptus services
  2. On both front-end and node(s):
    • add new user 'eucalyptus'
    • change EUCA_USER="eucalyptus"' in /opt/eucalyptus/etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf
  3. On node(s):
    • enable '(xend-http-server yes)' in /etc/xend/xend-config.sxp
    • restart xend
  4. Start all Eucalyptus services in the following order (order is important!)
    • on node(s): /etc/init.d/eucalyptus-nc start
    • on front-end: /etc/init.d/eucalyptus-cc start
    • on front-end: /etc/init.d/eucalyptus-cloud start