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| In the prompt supply the size and Snapshot (based on the table below). | | In the prompt supply the size and Snapshot (based on the table below). |
| You may take the defaults for the Volume Type and IOPS. | | You may take the defaults for the Volume Type and IOPS. |
| + | |
| + | The snapshot ID varies by zone and the release of the software. You can see the complete list of GotCloud snapshots: |
| | | |
| <code> | | <code> |
− | Availability
| + | wget -qO - share.sph.umich.edu:gotcloud/snapshots.txt |
− | Name Zone Snapshot Size
| + | |
− | GotCloud distribution us-west-2a snap-14ea7632 40GB
| + | # GotCloud SnapShot List |
| + | # |
| + | # Create an EBS volume from these snapshots. Use the AWS console or |
| + | # with an ec2-api-tools command: |
| + | # |
| + | # ec2-create-volume -K ~/ec2/EC2-X509-private_key.pem \ |
| + | # -C ~/ec2/EC2-X509-cert.pem -s 40 \ |
| + | # --snapshot snap-14ea7632 --region us-west-2 -z us-west-2a |
| + | # |
| + | # Availability |
| + | # Zone Snapshot Size |
| + | us-west-2a snap-14ea7632 40GB |
| </code> | | </code> |
| + | Choose the correct snapshot-id and create the volume. |
| + | Do not format the volume. Do not mount it. |
| + | Rather you will need to tell StarCluster to mount this volume on each node in the cluster. |
| + | This is done ny |
| + | |
| | | |
− | and create the volume. This will create a device which you need to mount in your instance.
| + | This will create a device which you need to mount in your instance. |
| This will create a device like /dev/sdf, which unfortunately actually translates to | | This will create a device like /dev/sdf, which unfortunately actually translates to |
| the device /dev/xvdf in your Linux instance. Once the volume is ready, mount it | | the device /dev/xvdf in your Linux instance. Once the volume is ready, mount it |