Installing Eucalyptus (1.5.1) on Debian Squeeze (sid)

Eucalyptus can be installed on Debian Squeeze using binary DEB packages.

Download DEBs ¶

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, and Java libraries).

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

• For 32-bit machines, get eucalyptus-1.5.1-debian-i386.tar.gz
• For 64-bit machines, get eucalyptus-1.5.1-debian-amd64.tar.gz

Untar the bundle in a temporary location and add the directory to your sources.list

tar zxvf eucalyptus-1.5.1-*.tar.gz
cd eucalyptus-1.5.1-*
su
echo deb file:///${PWD} ./ >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update

NOTE: After installation feel free to remove the entry from sources.list

Prerequisites ¶

If you start with a standard Debian Squeeze 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. 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
3. Ensure that locales are properly configured (use dpkg-reconfigure locales

Node Controllers: eucalyptus-nc

4. 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.
   • EXAMPLE: /etc/xend/xend-config.sxp

     (xend-http-server yes)
     (xend-unix-server yes)
     (xend-unix-path /var/lib/xend/xend-socket)
     (xend-address localhost)
     (network-script network-bridge)
     (vif-script vif-bridge)
     (dom0-min-mem 196)
     (dom0-cpus 0)
     (vncpasswd '')
     

Install DEBs on the front end ¶

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

aptitude install eucalyptus-cc eucalyptus-cloud

Install DEBs on the nodes ¶

On the compute nodes, install the node controller DEB:

aptitude install eucalyptus-nc