Re: Amazon EC2 for SP labs

Sound great,

I am more appreicate if you can upload script,

Thanks

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:20 PM, kevin gannon <kevin_at_gannons.net> wrote:

> This might be an option for those who dont want to buy a new machine, or
> dont have the experience to
> deploy linux.
>
> I have tested using Amazons EC2 elastic computing to run the IPExpert and
> INE SP dynamips labs.
>
> I used a a linux box instance with the below spec
>
> "High-CPU Extra Large Instance 7 GB of memory, 20 EC2 Compute Units (8
> virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute
> Units each),1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform"
>
> The pricing is per hour and works out cheaper than an online rack in many
> cases. You just need to remember to
> terminate the machine after your lab !. Especially useful for people in
> Europe you can choose to host in a
> European data center, most SP racks are in the US and latency can be an
> issue.
>
> http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing the above setup runs ~50% CPU for
> IPexpert so you maybe able to use
> the next smaller box.
>
> If anyone is interested I can put up a script that you copy to your
> instance
> run and it installs dynagen/dynamips
> and so on in under 30 seconds. You just need supply the IOS images.
>
> Thanks
> Kevin
>
> PS. I dont work for Amazon in anyway so the above is not a plug , just
> thought it might be useful for people to
> know.
>
>
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