Eucalyptus (1.5.2) on a Rocks cluster

If you want to install Eucalyptus on a Rocks cluster, you can now follow the regular CentOS RPM instructions. The Cloud Controller and the Cluster Controller will need to be installed on your Rocks front-end, and the Node Controller will need to be installed on any of your Rocks nodes that have been configured as 'VM Containers'.

Eucalyptus will not run on a Rocks virtual cluster!

If you have previously installed Eucalyptus on your Rocks cluster, you should disable the old Eucalyptus rolls:

rocks disable roll eucalyptus

rebuild the rocks distribution:

cd /home/install
rocks-dist dist

and finally reinstall the nodes as 'VM Containers'. You can then follow the CentOS RPM instructions to install and configure Eucalyptus.

Keep in mind that the java roll in Rocks V (and V.I) includes JDK version 1.5 which is not enough to run Eucalyptus. You have to install the 1.6 JDK. For our testing we used Sun's JDK, which can be found at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp.