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• OpenStack: How to backup and restore OpenStack instances between Bright 8.x upgrades?
  
  Answer: How to backup and restore OpenStack instances between Bright 8.x upgrades? Introduction: One of the prerequisites for upgrading Bright clusters (e.g. from version 8.1 to 8.2) is ...
  
  
• Day-to-day Administration: How do I migrate users to a new cluster?
  
  Answer: How do I migrate users to a new cluster?   Sometimes the administrator may wish to migrate users from one cluster to another. For example, when setting ...
  
  
• General: Should I upgrade to a new version? I've got everything running perfectly on my current
  
  Answer: It is important to distinguish between updates and upgrades.   Updates   Package updates are provided through Bright's YUM/Zypper repositories. It is recommended to check for new updates on ...
  
  
• Software Management: Installing bacula installs pbspro, which I don't want. What should I do?
  
  Answer: Why does it happen? Bacula is a backup application, PBS Pro is a job scheduler. The two are quite unrelated, so why should bacula have a ...
  
  
• Workload Management: How do I setup the Torque 2.5 package on Bright Cluster Manager 6.0 cluster?
  
  Answer: By default, Torque 3.x (name of packages: torque and torque-client) is setup on a Bright Cluster Manager 6.0 cluster.   However Torque 2.5.x is sometimes preferred by ...
  
  
• General: How do I upgrade Bright from SLES11sp2 to SLES11sp3?
  
  Answer: How do I upgrade Bright from SLES11sp2 to SLES11sp3? With the following recipe: Contents 1 How do I upgrade Bright from SLES11sp2 to SLES11sp3? 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Upgrading a software ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How do I upgrade Bright OpenStack?
  
  Answer: How do I upgrade Bright OpenStack? Upgrading OpenStack and Bright Openstack Major Versions Let’s get right to it. Upgrading any OpenStack distribution, from one major version, to ...
  
  
• Node Provisioning: How can Windows Server 2008 R2 be provisioned to a node with Bright?
  
  Answer: How can Windows Server 2008 R2 be provisioned to a node, using Bright?   This guide walks through configuring Bright Cluster Manager 7.1/RHEL7 to deploy Windows Server ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How do I extend an OpenStack cluster with extra controller/network nodes?
  
  Answer:   How do I extend an OpenStack cluster with extra controller/network nodes?   Scenario: You have installed OpenStack with one controller. Now you want to add two more controllers ...
  
  
• Cluster Management: My cluster is showing odd errors. What should I do?
  
  Answer: A cluster can sometimes show general weirdness, throwing up odd non-specific errors.   A checklist of suggestions to go through first:   1. check the hardware. Burn tests such as ...
  
  
• Day-to-day Administration: My LDAP server won't start because the database is corrupt. How do I fix it?
  
  Answer: My LDAP server won't start because the database is corrupt. How do I fix it?   Possible cause OpenLDAP uses a storage format (BerkeleyDB) which is known to ...
  
  
• Workload Management: How do I upgrade a Torque package?
  
  Answer: Kill all torque jobs. Backup the torque configuration:qmgr -c "p s" > /root/qmgr.backup  Disable torque: wlm-setup -w torque -d Update torque and openmpi on head node and in ...
  
  
• High Availability: How do I clone additional MySQL databases in a Bright Cluster?
  
  Answer:   How do I clone additional MySQL databases in Bright Cluster?   The following steps show an example method that has been verfied on Bright 7.3 and 8.0   1. ...