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Installing ROCKS front end Download ROCKS 5.0 Boot, Core and OS Roll DVD ordpress/?page_id=82. Select the right architecture before downloading. We went with a 64-bit model, which is most likely the desired architecture for a Cloud. But a word of caution here! Don't get carried away with the instinct of downloading the latest and the greatest because on the same site, ROCKS version 5.1 DVD is also available which doesn't work with Eucalyptus. And no document anywhere says that. I first did that and wasted a complete day in trying to deploy Eucalyptus for Rocks 5.l.

Once you have download the DVD ISO and burnt it, get a machine (can be any machine with preferably one GB of RAM, P-IV and above with two network cards). N ow, connect one network card with your network switch which preferably has a DHCP server and an Internet connection. We will call this the "production network." And connect the other network card to an isolated network (preferably a Gbps network); where you are going to connect all your Cloud node machines. We shall call this is Cloud network. Make sure there is no DHCP server running on the Cloud network because Rocks frontend is ,going to run its own DHCP server, 'pre-configured for node's remote installation.



N ow put in the DVD and fire up the innstallatio11"; once the boot screen comes, type "frontend" and hit enter. This will start the installation for ROCKS' management server. After a couple of booting minutes, you will see a screen which asks you to select the Rolls you want to install on the Rocks server. There are two ways of in¬stalling the rolls: one is through the DVD and the other is through the Internet. Select the CD/DVD option and you will see a page with a list of available roles. Select the rolls shown in the image in the previous page. Don't forget to specifically include the base, Xen, Java, OS and Ganglia roles. Once you have selected the rolls, click on the Submit button and you will be redirected to the previous page. Now hit next and you will see a screen which will ask you to fill in details for creating a self certificate for the HTTPS web access of the Rocks front end. Enter your location information and proceed.

Once this is done, the installer.will ask you standard information such as password, timezone, etc. and it will ask you how to partition the server hard drive. It is good to do a automatic partitioning to avoid any confusion. Just make sure you don't have any data on the hard disk. After gathering this in¬formation, the system will start copying the file and depending on your system resources it will take from 10 to 20 minutes to finish the install.