Posts by rpaiva:
RAID and LVM on Amazon EC2 (part I)
December 8th, 2009This is the first part of three articles I’m posting for a great storage solution using RAID, LVM and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).
First, you need to choose your RAID implementation. Personally, I prefer to use RAID 5 on Amazon EC2, combined with LVM2.
For setting a RAID 5 up and running you will need to raise at least 3 EBS volumes and attach them to your instance (let’s say: sdb1, sdb2, sbd3). Read the rest of this entry “
Porting Debian to Amazon EC2 for HPC
December 8th, 2009Few months ago, I was challenged to build a High Performance Computing (HPC) instance on Amazon EC2 and the first thing that came in my mind was: which Linux distribution would fit on such requirements.
I must confess I’m pretty much adept to Debian, but I was forced to be unbiased and start researching for better options for achieving my goal. Also because the environment I was going to port was already running Debian, but the application’s traffic growth was increasing at high speed and it seemed something was going on with that server. Read the rest of this entry “