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Software Requirements
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Before installing, please verify that you have the following programs:
- Xen virtualization (version 3.0.x or 3.1)
http://xen.xensource.com/
- DRBD (kernel module and userspace utils)
http://www.drbd.org/
- LVM2
http://sourceware.org/lvm2/
- OpenSSH
http://www.openssh.com/portable.html
http://fping.sourceforge.net/
- iproute2
http://developer.osdl.org/dev/iproute2
- arping (part of iputils package)
ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/iputils-current.tar.gz
- mdadm (Linux Software Raid tools)
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
- Python 2.4
http://www.python.org
- Python Twisted library (the core is enough)
http://twistedmatrix.com/
- Python OpenSSL bindings
http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/
For testing, you also need the YAML module for Python (http://pyyaml.org/).
Installation of the software
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To install, simply do ``./configure --localstatedir=/var && make && make install``
This will install the software under /usr/local. You then need to copy
ganeti.init to /etc/init.d/ganeti and integrate it into your boot sequence
More details about the installation process are in the docs/installing.pdf file.
Cluster initialisation
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Before initialising the cluster, on each node you need to create the following
directories:
- /etc/ganeti
- /srv/ganeti, /srv/ganeti/os, /srv/ganeti/export