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- Installing BCM: How do I install Bright under VMWare ESXi 5.x? Answer: How do I install Bright under VMWare ESXi 5.x? You can follow this guide: Upload the Bright ISO image into the datastore Host ESXi network configuration Create a virtual ...
- Third Party Software: How do I install the AMD FirePro GPU Driver on Bright? Answer: How do I install the AMD FirePro GPU Driver on Bright? The AMD FirePro GPU driver can be installed, and the OpenCL feature checked, on Bright ...
- Installing BCM: How do I install Bright Cluster Manager on an SGI ICE X/XA system? Answer: Installing Bright on an SGI ICE X/XA system involves first installing the "Admin" node using a Bright Cluster Manager ISO. The ISO could be burned to a ...
- Configuring: How do I install FreeIPA onto a Bright Cluster? Answer: How do I install FreeIPA onto a Bright Cluster?1. Install packages:# yum -y install ipa-server2. Stop LDAP server:# cmsh -c "device services master; stop ldap"3. ...
- OpenStack: How do I install Cloud Foundry on Bright OpenStack? Answer: Cloud Foundry installation on Bright Openstack 1- A working Openstack environment, API access, credentials, and a working networking configuration with metadata access is assumed. Running the following ...
- Configuring: How do I install BeeGFS? Answer: How do I install BeeGFS? Integrating BeeGFS with Bright is described here. We use the following configuration: Hosts: beegfs-mgmt: Bright 7.1/RHEL7 Head Node beegfs-mds: RHEL7 Server beegfs-ss01: RHEL7 Server beegfs-ss02: RHEL7 Server beegfs-client001: ...
- OpenStack: How can I install OpenStack Magnum from source on BCM 8.1? Answer: This KB describes how to install and configure the Container Infrastructure Management service, code-named Magnum, on the OpenStack controller. The procedures were tested on a BCM ...
- Third Party Software: How do I install Mesos on a Bright Cluster? Answer: The installation of Mesos with the Marathon and Chronos frameworks on a Bright Cluster is described in this article. Upstream documentation for these applications can be ...
- Workload Management: How do I Install HTCondor from sources on top of a Bright Cluster Answer: How to Install HTCondor from sources on top of a Bright Cluster HTCondor can be installed on top of a Bright Cluster as follows: Note: The following ...
- Node Provisioning: How do I (re)install an operating system on a compute node disk, without losing data Answer: How do I (re)install an operating system on a regular node (compute node) disk, without losing data on the other disks of that node? Sometimes an ...
- Workload Management: How do I install HTCondor from EPEL repository on Bright? Answer: How do I install HTCondor from EPEL repository on Bright? On the head node 1. Install the HTCondor packages: # yum install condor 2. Modify /etc/condor/condor_config so that the ...
- High Availability: How to Install Lustre with ZFS and HA for OSS and MDS Nodes Answer: Prerequisites: 2 OSS nodes connected via SAS over multiple paths to their own JBOD shared storage (minimum eight drives) 2 MDS nodes connected via SAS over multiple ...
- Configuring: How do I install LUKS/NBDE onto Bright nodes? Answer: How do I use LUKS + NBDE "Network-Bound Disk Encryption" to encrypt data on regular Bright nodes? Introduction: This FAQ describes how to use Network-Bound Disk Encryption ...
- Cluster Management: How do I install the JSON cmgui ? Answer: The standalone JSON cmgui, available in Bright 6.0 and upwards, can run on any regular desktop client machine, including on a MacOS desktop. The software ...
- Cluster Management: How can a custom command be run in cmsh? Answer: Custom commands can be of two kinds: external to cmsh or internal to cmsh. external to cmsh If the custom command is an executable from the main ...
- Installing BCM: How do I install Bright under KVM? Answer: How to install Bright under KVM In this post we are going to explore the installation of Bright Cluster Manager on top of the KVM hypervisor. There ...
- Installing BCM: How do I install Bright on Xen Cloud Platform? Answer: How do I install Bright on Xen Cloud Platform? Assuming that you have installed Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.6. XCP can be managed via the CLI or ...
- Installing BCM: How do I install Bright on Virtual Box? Answer: How do I install Bright on Virtual Box? Prerequisite: In order to use PXE booting, the VirtualBox Extension Pack should be installed. Create a Virtual Machine (VM) for ...
- Installing BCM: How do I install Bright under VMWare Fusion? Answer: How do I install Bright under VMWare Fusion? You can follow this guide: Create a virtual machine for the head node Install a Bright 7.0 head node Install a ...
- Configuring: How do I install the user portal on a login node from 8.0 onward? Answer: How to install the user portal on a login node from 8.0 onward The following procedure describes how to install and serve the user portal on ...
- Third Party Software: How does the {mlnx|qlgc}-ofed(2)-install.sh script work? Answer: How does the mlnx-ofed*-install.sh/qlgc-ofed-install.sh script work? The script installs "mlnx-ofa_kernel.x86_64" and "mlnx-ofa_kernel-devel.x86_64" on the head node or in the software image. These are the actual OFED ...
- Workload Management: How do I install Condor on Bright? Answer: How do I install HTCondor on top of a Bright Cluster? HTCondor can be installed on top of a Bright Cluster as follows: On the head node 1. ...
- Development: How can I install the latest Python in Bright? Answer: RedHat, SUSE, and similar Linux-based OS distributors provide versions of Python that lag behind the latest upstream. This is normally a good thing, since the ...
- OpenStack: How do I install OpenStack's Trove into Bright? Answer: How do I install OpenStack's Trove into Bright? Trove is OpenStack's reference database service. At the time of writing it is undergoing heavy development. This means ...
- Installing BCM: How do I install Bright under VMWare Workstation? Answer: How do I install Bright under VMWare Workstation? You can follow this guide: Create a virtual machine for the head node 1. Switch to “Home” tab and click ...
- Workload Management: How to install Gold Allocation Manager on top of Bright Cluster Answer: How to install Gold Allocation Manager on top of Bright Cluster Gold Allocation Manager is an HPC resource accounting tool. It is open source, and released ...
- Workload Management: How do I Install MOAB 9.x on top of Bright? Answer: How do I install MOAB in Bright? (Tested on Bright 7.3 with torque 6.0.1) 1. Download MOAB sources from Adaptive website and extract it on the head ...
- Software Management: How can I install Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Forwarder into Bright 8.2? Answer: How can I install Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Forwarder on Bright 8.2? By following the procedure outlined here: Installing Splunk-Forwarder and building a new software image: The method ...
- Configuring: My stacked switches port designation format doesn't match cmsh/cmgui. What now? Answer: My stacked switches port designation format doesn't match cmsh/cmgui. How do I record which ports are uplinks?You may have uplink ports that are designated as ...
- Third Party Software: How do I install Oracle 's JRE/JDK on a Bright Cluster? Answer: After downloading the JDK (or JRE) RPM package from Oracle you can install it asfollows: rpm -Uvh --relocate /usr/java=/cm/shared/apps/java jre-7u55-linux-x64.rpm cd /cm/shared/apps/java ln -s jre1.7.0_55 currentAfter that you need to add ...
- General: How to prepare my cluster to install ScaleIO? Answer: EMC provides a web interface to install ScaleIO on your cluster. The steps below need to be followed to prepare your cluster to use that ...
- Workload Management: How do I install MOAB in Bright? Answer: How do I install MOAB on top of Bright Cluster Manager? To install MOAB on top of BCM, the following are needed:- A working license file for ...
- OpenStack: How do I install and use ospurge in Bright 7.3 OpenStack? Answer: How do I install and use ospurge in Bright Cluster Manager 7.3 OpenStack? Prerequisites: The following packages are needed: git python34 python34-pip python34-devel You can install them with: yum install git python34 python34-pip python34-devel The ospurge software ...
- Third Party Software: My program needs Python 3 in order to run. How do I install it? Answer: Running yum search cm-python3 (the prefix "cm-" is important) should turn up the Bright Cluster Manager Python 3 package for more recent Bright Cluster Manager software. A ...
- OpenStack: How do I install Bright OpenStack on VMWare ESXi? Answer: How do I install Bright OpenStack on VMWare ESXi? The following steps were tested for Bright OpenStack 7.3 running on VMWare ESXi 6.x. 1 - Deploy Bright ...
- General: How do I install OrangeFS? Answer: These instructions are tested on Bright 7.3 Centos7u3 for the head node and the compute nodes. The head node is the storage server. Install the dependencies. [root@mg-73-centos73-ofs ...
- Installing BCM: How do I install my head node using a PXE server? Answer: In certain situations it may be desirable to install a Bright head node by booting it off of a PXE server. There are a few ...
- Configuring: How do I add a login node? Answer: How do I add a login node? Table of contents Why have a login node?What do we need to consider for login nodes?1. Make a login image ...
- Node Provisioning: How can I flash update all my nodes (from DOS)? Answer: How can I flash update all my nodes (from DOS)? (For update via Linux, see http://kb.brightcomputing.com/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=11&id=105 ) The problem:I have to perform some maintenance on the nodes ...
- Third Party Software: How do I integrate GPFS 3.x with Bright? Answer: How do I integrate GPFS with Bright? GPFS can be integrated with Bright in two ways. Either by mounting a GPFS filesystem on an existing Bright ...
- User Management: How do I enable multi-level kerberos and LDAP authentication in cmgui? Answer: How do I enable both kerberos and LDAP authentication for cmgui? For Red Hat-based system such as RHEL, CentOS or Scientific Linux: Configure The Head Node Configure your ...
- Day-to-day Administration: Can I mix Linux distributions on my cluster? Answer: Can the Bright Cluster Manager (BCM) be used to manage a mix of Linux distributions within the same cluster?Yes. Introduction With BCM, multiple, different images can be ...
- Third Party Software: How can I use the Intel VTune XE with Bright? Answer: Introduction Intel's VTune Amplifier is a commercial application for performance analysis on 32 and 64-bit x86 based machines, and has both GUI and command-line interfaces. Basic features ...
- User Management: How do I integrate Bright with AD Using SSSD 's LDAP provider and Simple BIND? Answer: How do I integrate a Bright cluster into an Active Directory domain with SSSD 's LDAP provider? (The method in "How do I authenticate against Active ...
- 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 ...
- Installing BCM: How do I upgrade my cluster if I have a storage node that is being Answer: How do I update a cluster with a storage node that is shared? Upgrading with a Storage Node Special considerations must be made when upgrading Bright versions ...
- OpenStack: How do I integrate Bright OpenStack with an external Ceph storage? Answer: How do I add External Ceph to Bright OpenStack? A local Ceph can be set up on Bright clusters with the cm-ceph-setup script and used as ...
- Power Management: Setup up custom power scripts for ProfitBricks Answer: Custom Power Scripts for controlling ProfitBricks Instances Prerequisites To use dynamic scaling of clusters on ProfitBricks’ IaaS platform you have to install a head node in a ...
- Installing BCM: How do I run Bright under MS Windows Server Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012R2)? Answer: How do I run Bright under MS Windows Server Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012R2)? This article walks you through an install of Bright under Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows ...
- OpenStack: How do I set up Cluster as a Service (CaaS) on Bright OpenStack 7.2? Answer: Cluster as a Service on Bright OpenStack 7.2 [The following notes explain setting up a clusters as a service in Bright Cluster Manager. This ...