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Re: [Condor-users] Using Condor as Host for VMWare Virtual Machines



Bryan,
My company helps businesses and universities set up, support, and manage Condor. Basically, if you have a small pool (<100 nodes), you want to determine a computer to be your central manager and scheduler for the pool, this should be your most reliable machine. You should download the Condor software for the OS's you're using, and install it on all of the nodes. The Condor installers for Windows and other platforms should help you with configuration. A good place to start is to read the Tutorial presentations from CondorWeek including the Using Condor one:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/PCW2007/presentations/nleroy_user_tutorial.ppt

or this article from Linux Journal:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/9058/print

I'd also be happy to have a call with you about your project, and help get you pointed in the right direction. E-mail me directly if you'd like to talk.

Best,
Jason

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On Dec 13, 2007 2:27 PM, Bryan Richardson <btricha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Great, thanks for the info.  Now the million dollar question... how hard is it to set up a Condor cluster?  Do you know of any how-to docs that would help step me through it?

Thanks again!


On Dec 13, 2007 11:47 AM, Jason Stowe <jstowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bryan,
Yes, and you can start using it with VMware. Condor 6.9.4 and up support the VMUniverse. You can download 6.9.5 off this link:
http://parrot.cs.wisc.edu/v6.9.license.html

-Jason

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Cycle Computing, LLC
Enterprise Condor Support
http://www.cyclecomputing.com



On Dec 13, 2007 1:30 PM, Bryan Richardson < btricha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Excellent... :)  Is Condor 6.9.x out yet?
>
>
>
> On Dec 13, 2007 9:38 AM, Ian Chesal <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to determine if Condor would be a good solution for me.
> > > I currently have a bunch of older, slower machines in my lab that
> > > I want to somehow cluster together such that I can host multitudes
> > > of VMWare virtual machines.  Currently, each individual machine is
> > > only fast enough to host at most one or two virtual machines.
> >
> > I personally haven't had a chance to play with all of this yet but
> > Condor is very quickly becoming a VM-friendly tool. Check out this
> > presentation from Condor Week 2007:
> >
> > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/PCW2007/presentations/yoon_vmuniverse.ppt
> >
> > Condor can launch jobs under VMs for you. And as with all Condor
> > installs you can tell Condor "only run X number of jobs concurrently on
> > this machine". So you get to tell each machine now many concurrent VM
> > sessions to allow.
> >
> > I am very much looking forward to clearing some time in the new year to
> > play with this. The thought of being able to run my pool on *one* OS and
> > provide my user's with many Oses and variants via VMs seems like grid
> > nirvana right now.
> >
> > - Ian
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