AWS
How to add additional storage to your AWS server – A step by step Guide
To add additional storage to your AWS server 1)Â Â Â Â Â Stop the instance on which you want to add additional hard disk space. Right click on instance and select CREATE IMAGE . 2)Â Â Â Â Â Give description for image. 3)Â Â Â Â Â Go to snapshots and select CREATE VOLUME FROM SNAPSHOT. 4)Â Â Â Â Â Give size of the volume , zone of [...]
How to Build a Cluster Computing Environment in Under 10 minutes
how to setup a cluster of high performance compute nodes in under 10 minutes with Amazon EC2. Amazon ’ve created a new video tutorial, which describes how to setup a cluster of high performance compute nodes in under 10 minutes. Follow along with the tutorial to get a feel for how to provision high performance systems with Amazon EC2 [...]
How to Install and Configure NFS on Amazon EC2 Linux Instance
Here we are going to explain about the Installation and Configuration procedure for Amazon EC2 Linux Instance. When i configured my first EC2 Linux Instance i was getting the following error while starting the NFS Server. Starting NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS quotas: Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Co rpc.rquotad: unable [...]
How to Create a Load Balancer – Amazon EC2 Instance
AÂ load balancer distributes application loads between two or more EC2 instances. You can dynamically register or deregister EC2 instances from the load balancer as the capacity requirements of your application change with time.A load balancer is represented by a DNS name and a set of ports and provides the destination to which all requests intended [...]
How to Detach a Volume – Amazon EC2 Instance
To detach a volume from an instance Right-click a volume and click Detach Volume. A confirmation dialog box appears. Click Yes, Detach. Amazon EC2 detaches the volume from the instance. While the volume is being detached, its status is detaching. Caution: If your volume stays in the detachingstate, you can force the detachment using theForce Detach button. Forcing the [...]
How to Attach a Volume – Amazon EC2 Instance
To attach a volume to an instance Right-click a volume and click Attach Volume. The Attach Volume dialog box appears. Select the instance for the device from theInstances list box. Specify how to expose the volume to the instance in the Device field (/dev/sdb through /dev/sdz in Linux and xvdb through xvdh in Windows). For information about which [...]
How to Create a Volume – Amazon EC2 Instance
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is a type of storage designed specifically for Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS lets you create volumes that Amazon EC2 instances can mount as devices much like a standard hard drive. Amazon EBS volumes behave like raw, unformatted, external block devices. They have user-supplied device names and provide a block [...]
How to Tag a Volume – Amazon EC2 Instance
Tags are metadata you can add to a volume. Each tag consists of a key and an optional value. Â Add tags to your volume to simplify the administration of your EC2 infrastructure. A form of metadata, tags consist of a case-sensitive key/value pair, are stored in the cloud and are private to your account. You [...]
How to View Volume Details – Amazon EC2 Instance
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is a type of storage designed specifically for Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS lets you create volumes that Amazon EC2 instances can mount as devices much like a standard hard drive. Amazon EBS volumes behave like raw, unformatted, external block devices. They have user-supplied device names and provide a block [...]
How To release an IP address back to the Amazon EC2 IP address pool
Select an IP address to release and clickYes, Release Address. If the IP address is currently assigned to an instance, Amazon EC2 disassociates the IP address and releases it back to the Amazon EC2 IP address pool.
How to associate an IP address with an Amazon EC2 Instance
To associate an IP address with an instance Select an IP address to associate and clickAssociate. The Associate dialog box appears. Select the instance and click Associate. Its current public IP address is released to the Amazon EC2 public IP address pool and the elastic IP address is associated with the instance.
How to Allocate a New IP Address to Amazon EC2 Instance
Elastic IP addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing. Elastic IP addresses are associated with your account, not specific instances. Any elastic IP addresses that you associate with your account remain associated with your account until you explicitly release them. Unlike traditional static IP addresses, however, elastic IP addresses allow you to [...]
How to To reserve an instance – Amazon EC2 Instance
Reserved instances give you the option to make a low, one-time payment for each instance you want to reserve and in turn receive a significant discount on the hourly usage charge for that instance. To reserve an instance Click Reserved Instances and selectPurchase Reserved Instances. The Purchase Reserved Instancesdialog box appears. Select the options and the number [...]
How to Disassociate Elastic IP Address – Amazon EC2 Instance
If the instance has an Elastic IP address associated with it, you can disassociate the address, and then either associate the address with another instance, or release it back to the address pool. To associate the address or release it, go to the Elastic IPspage. To disassociate an Elastic IP address Right-click the instance and selectDisassociate [...]
How To create an image from an Amazon EBS-backed instance
If an instance has an EBS root device, you can easily create an AMI from it. To create an image from an Amazon EBS-backed instance Right-click an instance that shows “ebs” in the Root Device field and click Create Image (EBS AMI). The Create Image dialog box appears. Enter a name for the image (required) and a description [...]