User`s guide

1 Cloud Computing
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Search for your snapshot:
• In the Filter list, select Owned By Me.
• In the Search Snapshots field, enter your cluster name from the Cloud Center.
• Sort the Started column in descending order.
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In the lower half of the page, review the Tags for the top result in the list, and verify
that the ClusterInfo value has the correct cluster name. For example, the result
when your cluster name is MyR12b might look like this:
MyR12b / first.last__AT__company.com / 4006224
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Select the snapshot with the correct ClusterInfo value and the most recent
Started value. In the Description tab, copy the Snapshot ID (for example,
snap-20cd6642) and note its Capacity value.
Launch Instance or Attach Volume to Existing Instance
Select one of these two options:
• “Option 1: Launch Ubuntu Instance” on page 1-26
• “Option 2: Attach Volume to Existing Ubuntu Instance” on page 1-27
Option 1: Launch Ubuntu Instance
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On the EC2 Dashboard, click Launch Instance.
For the next several steps, navigate using the numbered tabs at the top of the page.
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On the Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) tab, choose an Ubuntu AMI.
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On the Choose an Instance Type tab, select the hardware configuration and size
of the instance to launch. Larger instance types have more CPU and memory.
To minimize cost, select the t2.micro instance type if you are using VPC; select
m3.medium if you are using EC2-Classic.
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On the Add Storage tab:
• Click Add New Volume.
• In the Type list, select EBS for Amazon Elastic Block Store.
• In the Device list, select one of /dev/sd[f-p].
For Linux
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/UNIX
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instances, recommended device names are /dev/sdf through
/dev/sdp.