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Getting Grid Engine Scheduler to schedule jobs despite high load

During the preparation for an SDM demo which uses the Cloud Adapter to manage OpenSolaris zones my colleague ran into the problem that the Grid Engine Scheduler did not schedule jobs onto the zones because the overall load on the host was to high.

Posted at 02:09PM Jul 17, 2009 by rhierlmeier in Grid Engine  |  Comments[0]

Tips & Tricks for SDM Cloud Adapter with Zones

If you have running an SDM system with a Cloud Adapter that manages Solaris Zones you can run into problems after a reboot of the master host. This entry describes how to avoid the problems and how to solve them.[Read More]

Posted at 12:20PM Jul 17, 2009 by rhierlmeier in Service Domain Manager  |  Comments[0]

Using SDM Cloud Adapter to Manage Solaris Zones

Last week Sun Grid Engine version 6.2u3 has been released. The Service Domain Manager module of this release comes with the new Cloud Adapter. Out of the box it supports the startup/shutdown of EC2 hosts on demand.

However the Cloud Adapter can not only manag EC2 resources. This entry describes how to setup an Opensolaris 2006.11 box that allows the startup/shutdown of Solaris zones on demand with the help of SDM Cloud Adapter.

Posted at 10:02AM Jul 06, 2009 by rhierlmeier in Service Domain Manager  |  Comments[0]