Virtual Machine Setup #234
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@fsoubelet if you want you can also give it a glance, but as Josh has had some run ins with the VMs I want to see if that makes sense to him. Feel free to correct typos and such. As Josh is on holidays I don't think this will merge before the YETS. |
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What a thorough writeup! This will be great to have on the website.
I went through and left a comment + many suggestions here and there for some typos, nitpicks, clarity, consistency etc. Feel free to make of them what you will.
| ## Introduction | ||
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| CERN provides an Infrastructure-as-a-Service as part of their private cloud, which any member can access. | ||
| Through [OpenStack][openstack]{target=_blank} CERN allows users to create virtual machines on their computing infrastructure. |
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I guess I would link to the CERN openstack directly maybe?
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| After following this guide you will have your own virtual machine running on CERN OpenStack. | ||
| This machine will be similar to your office desktop or the `lxplus` machines, | ||
| with access to `afs`, `eos` and `htcondor` yet come with some advatages and disadvantages: |
| **Advantages:** | ||
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| - Full root access to your machine. | ||
| - Independence from Building 6/9/10 powercuts (in comparison to your office desktop machine). |
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Let's not hardcode a building number considering 777 is around the corner.
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It actually is, yes. 2 years away according to the plan: https://building777.web.cern.ch/
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| - No automatic updates (you have to maintain your machine yourself). | ||
| - No external access, only via CERN network or lxplus-tunneling. | ||
| - Not a high-performace machine (compared to dev/optics servers and HPC clusters), especially when not part of a [project](#projects). |
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I would remove the anchor here. Firstly because it links to the next word, and more importantly because the next sentence also has a project word that links to a different place (and that one is important).
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It doesn't link to a word. It links to the title (any level) called projects, but sure, as it is directly the next section, I guess I can remove it ^^
| Within a project more flavours and larger resource quotas are available, making it possible to create more powerful virtual machines. | ||
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| !!! warning "Project Request" | ||
| You need to request a project through the CERN IT department directly from the [OpenStack portal][cern_openstack]{target=_blank} |
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The link here does not format correctly. See my next comment for why and the fix.
| sudo dnf install perl-CPAN perl-Sys-Syslog # needed for running the script below | ||
| sudo dnf install perl-Authen-Krb5 # should install the perl Authen::Krb5 package |
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| sudo dnf install perl-CPAN perl-Sys-Syslog # needed for running the script below | |
| sudo dnf install perl-Authen-Krb5 # should install the perl Authen::Krb5 package | |
| sudo dnf install -y perl-CPAN perl-Sys-Syslog # needed for running the script below | |
| sudo dnf install -y perl-Authen-Krb5 # should install the perl Authen::Krb5 package |
| sudo rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-HTCondor | ||
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| sudo dnf install -y https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/repo/current/htcondor-release-current.el9.noarch.rpm | ||
| sudo dnf install condor-all |
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| sudo dnf install condor-all | |
| sudo dnf install -y condor-all |
| sudo dnf install http://galaxy4.net/repo/galaxy4-release-9-current.noarch.rpm -y # enable repo with new tmux versions | ||
| sudo dnf install tmux -y |
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| sudo dnf install http://galaxy4.net/repo/galaxy4-release-9-current.noarch.rpm -y # enable repo with new tmux versions | |
| sudo dnf install tmux -y | |
| sudo dnf install -y http://galaxy4.net/repo/galaxy4-release-9-current.noarch.rpm # enable repo with new tmux versions | |
| sudo dnf install -y tmux |
| sudo dnf install perl-Authen-Krb5 # should install the perl Authen::Krb5 package | ||
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| echo "Testing the credentials via /usr/bin/batch_krb5_credential." | ||
| echo "If it failes, 'export KRB5CCNAME=/tmp/krb5cc_####' as seen in 'klist'." |
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| echo "If it failes, 'export KRB5CCNAME=/tmp/krb5cc_####' as seen in 'klist'." | |
| echo "If it fails, 'export KRB5CCNAME=/tmp/krb5cc_####' as seen in 'klist'." |
| # n (create new) -> as primary -> follow steps | ||
| # p (display new partition table) | ||
| # w (write to disk) | ||
| # $ lsblk -p /dev/vdb1 (verify new parition) |
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| # $ lsblk -p /dev/vdb1 (verify new parition) | |
| # $ lsblk -p /dev/vdb1 (verify new partition) |
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