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Documentation
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Please note that a more detailed installation procedure is described in the
doc/install.html file. A glossary of terms can be found in the doc/admin.html
file.
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), version 8.0.7+
- LVM2
http://sourceware.org/lvm2/
- OpenSSH
http://www.openssh.com/portable.html
- bridge utilities
http://bridge.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
- Python 2.4
http://www.python.org
- Python OpenSSL bindings
http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/
- simplejson Python module
http://www.undefined.org/python/#simplejson
- pyparsing Python module
http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/
For building from source, you also need tar, gzip or bzip2 and make.
Installation of the software
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To install, simply do ``./configure --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc && \
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
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