'OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2' Workshop
Monday May 05, 2008
As part of Alliances with Global Partners program SUN announce OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 Beta private program and SUN also announce MySQL support for Amazon EC2 users
See also: Getting started with OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 and Official EC2 blog
Bellow I try to summarize my Solaris on Amazon AWS (EC2 , S3) field experience reusing my Linux, Solaris , xVM / XEN theme related knowledge:
- Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) from developer view
- Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) environment Overview
- Amazon EC2 and S3
- Amazon EC2 Instance Types
- Amazon EC2 instances are purely dynamic in nature
- Amazon EC2 Ephemeral - no persistent store
- Amazon EC2 Instance boot process
- Amazon EC2 Steps towards persistence
- Amazon S3 for Amazon EC2 users
- Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) Known Issues
- Typical AMI image creation processes (Comming soon)
- Suggested AMI image creation for Solaris (Comming soon)
- Typical AMI image usage processes (Comming soon)
- Suggested AMI image usage for Solaris (Comming soon)
- Local xVM / XEN environment as main development tool
- Hands-on Experince: OpenSolaris on Amazon AWS (EC2 and S3)
- Creating OpenSolaris based JeOS
- JeOS on OpenSolaris Nevada line
- Netboot install of OpenSolaris Nevada line li>
- FreeWare SW for OpenSolaris Nevada line
- OpenSolaris 2008.05 released
- JeOS on OpenSolaris Indiana line
- Installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 into xVM or XEN VM in PARA mode
- Determining OpenSolaris 200805 CLI JeOS RNJS conf
- Creating OpenSolaris CLI JeOS RNJS by Uninstall
- Instalation of IPS freeware SW into OpenSolaris or Indiana
- ec2ify: Adding Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) features to your Solaris VM instance
- Porting Solaris to Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) - need for ec2ify scripts
- ec2ify:ident 5 required steps to login into instance
- ec2ify:me 5 optional steps to parametrize instance
- Pre-Prepared AMI images plus Inst&Conf hits
- Pre-build SXDE79 JeOS RNJS AMI images
- AMI Evaluation Image: Liferay on Glassfish bundle DEMO
- Inst&Conf: Liferay 5.0 on Glassfish bundle DEMO
- AMI Developer Image: Glassfish & MySQL bundle from Java EE
- Inst&Conf: SGMJ (Solaris Glassfish MySQL Java) Stack
- AMI Composite Image: Empty SXDE79 JeOS RNJS + S3 Glassfish V3 TP2 update
- Download & Run: WebSynergy - Demonstrating AMI update from ZIP on S3
- Pre-build OpenSolaris 2008.05 JeOS RNJS AMI images
- Pre-build OpenSolaris 2008.11 JeOS RNJS AMI images (Comming soon)
- Glassfish 2.1 App Server and MySQL 5.1 AMI on OpenSolaris 2008.11
- Specifics of OpenSolaris setup on Amazon EC2
- Create MySQL 5.1 AMI-752CCB1C instance and install there GF 2.1
- Install JDK6 from OpenSolaris release repo
- Install MySQL 5.1 and J Connector
- Glasshish 2.1 Install from JAR distribution and configure it as non-root user
- Glassfish 2.1 AMI Create Info Phase
- Glassfish 2.1 AMI Cleaning phase
- Glassfish 2.1 AMI Rebuilding process (From inside AMI)
- Glassfish 2.1 AMI User First Run Postconfiguration (Securing)
- Amazon AWS (EC2, S3) usefull tools and libs
- Will OpenSolaris 2008.05 instance survive reboot after update ?
- Will OpenSolaris 2008.05 OS survive reboot after update ? Yes !!!
- Will OpenSolaris 2008.05 data disks survive reboot after update ? No ?! Fixed !!!
- Getting sence of ephemeral store behaviour under OpenSolaris (UFS,ZFS)
- m1.small disk perf on UFS (1 disk)
- m1.small disk perf on ZFS (1 disk)
- m1.large disk perf on ZFS mirror (2 disks)
- m1.xlarge disk perf on ZFS raidz (4 disks)
- Amazon EC2 OpenSolaris re-bundling process trouble shutting
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Hi Rudolf,
Thanks for the write up.
It makes lif...