Here are some frequently asked questions about Cloud Edition for Lustre on Amazon Web Services:
Q: How is Cloud Edition provided to AWS customers?
A: Intel Cloud Edition for Lustre software is provided as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) via Amazon Marketplace. Amazon Marketplace embeds product codes in the published AMIs, and these product codes are used to bill the customer’s account for usage of the product as well as provide support entitlements.
Q: Can Cloud Edition be added to customer-developed private AMIs as a standalone product installation?
A: No. The Cloud Edition product is a complete solution for deploying, managing and monitoring a Lustre filesystem in AWS. Think of it as an appliance model. All of the integration, QA and tuning is part of the delivered solution; it’s much more than just a few packages to be installed.
Q: Can the published Marketplace AMI be customized and used to create private derivative AMIs?
A: Yes, this is supported. When a derivative private AMI is created in a customer account, the original Marketplace product codes are retained by the derived AMI. Intel cannot assist with the customization process, but will support customizations that do not interfere with the operation of Cloud Edition functionality. An example of a supported customization might be something like site-specific IDS requirements mandating certain auditing packages to be installed and configured on every instance. Rather than having to re-install/re-configure these packages every time a Lustre server instance is deployed, the customer could start an instance running our published AMI, perform the required customizations, then create a derived AMI which is private to their account. They would then substitute their private AMI’s ID in the CloudFormation templates and create a new Cloud Edition filesystem as usual. The instances created using this method would now include the customizations but would otherwise function the same.
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