# Build a Software RAID5 Based Debian/Ganeti System only on a non-UEFI System

**NOTE: this will not work on a UEFI capable system.  It will fail at grub installation.** Try [This recipie instead.](https://wiki.rg.net/wiki/DebianRAIDGaneti)

## Install Debian

- Before install, it is wise to disable DHCP service so one can manuall set the system IP data
- Boot Debian CD/ISO
- Choose Install
- Choose English, UK (so you can get UCT)
- Choose American English
- Name the host
- Select the Ethernet interface to be used
- Configure Ethernet IP Address, Netmask, Gateway, and DNS Service
- Configure Hostname and Domain Name
- Choose root password
- Choose user name and password
- Partition Disks
  - Choose Manual Partitioning
  - Select the first drive
  - Create a new empty partition table
  - Select each of the other Drives and Create a new empty partition table
  - Configure Software RAID
  - Write Changes and Configure RAID
  - Create MD Device
  - Select RAID5
  - Number of Devices should be all the drives you have
  - Number of Spare Drives is 0
  - Select all the drives and continue
  - Write the changes and configure RAID
  - Finish
- Configure LVM
  - Configure LVM accepting write changes to disks
  - Create volume group
    - Volume group name: ganeti
    - Devices for the new volume group: select /dev/md0
    - Keep partioning and write
  - Create Logical Volume: on ganeti, root, 16G
  - Create Logical Volume: on ganeti, swap, 16G
  - Create Logical Volume: on ganeti, var, 16G
  - Finish
  - Edit the Logical Volumes to be ext4 /, swap, and ext4 /var
  - Finish partitioning and write changes
- Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
- Debian will now install and you will do the normal mirror selection etc.
- Only install SSH Server and Debian Utilities
- Install GRUB
- Be sure it will not boot CD-ROM, and Reboot from the installed system

## Finish Debian Installation

Install homey things (it's not a computer without emacs:)

```
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install emacs23-nox rsync gcc bridge-utils vlan sudo unbound
usermod -G sudo -a randy
```

Copy root's credentials and dot-files from a known system

Fix `/etc/ssh/sshd_config` to forbid passwords

```
PermitRootLogin without-password
```

And restart the ssh daemon 

```
service ssh restart
```

Fix hostname

```
echo vm3.dfw.rg.net > /etc/hostname
hostname `cat /etc/hostname`
```

Fix /etc/unbound/unbound.conf

```
        access-control: 127.0.0.0/8 allow
        access-control: 198.180.152.0/24 allow
        access-control: 0.0.0.0/0 refuse
        access-control: ::1 allow
        access-control: ::ffff:127.0.0.1 allow
        access-control: 2001:deb::/48
        access-control: ::0/0 refuse
```

And restart unbound

```
service unbound restart
```

Clean up from CDROM sources

```
vi /etc/apt/sources.list
```

and delete the two CDROM entries at the top

### Make ISO FileSystem

```
lvcreate -n ISOs -L 128G ganeti
mkdir /ISOs
mkfs /dev/mapper/ganeti-ISOs
```

and then add it to /etc/fstab

```
/dev/mapper/ganeti/ISOs /ISOs   ext4    defaults        0       2
```

and then you can mount it

```
mount /ISOs
```

### Unattended Upgrades, syslog-NG, etc.

[Install Unattended Upgrading](https://wiki.rg.net/wiki/UbuntuAutoUpgrade)

Install syslog-ng

```
apt-get install syslog-ng
```

Hack /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng

```
*** /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng~ 2013-03-20 17:30:26.000000000 +0000
--- /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng  2014-07-31 14:00:08.148813531 +0100
***************
*** 29,34 ****
--- 29,36 ----
        missingok
        notifempty
        compress
+       mailfirst
+       mail randy@psg.com
        delaycompress
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
```

Fix Exim

```
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
```

Use internet mail
 System name is vm0.bknix.co.th
 Only listen on local interfaces
 Relay mail for noone

## Debian Ganeti Specific Configuration

Edit /etc/hosts to have the real address of the host, e.g.

```
127.0.0.1          localhost
198.180.152.30     vm0.dfw.rg.net vm0
198.180.152.31     vm1.dfw.rg.net vm1
198.180.152.32     vm2.dfw.rg.net vm2
198.180.152.33     vm3.dfw.rg.net vm3
198.180.152.100    gnt0.dfw.rg.net gnt0
```

### Fix /etc/network/interfaces

Make eth0 hang off of whatever your bridge will be called

```
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

auto br-lan
iface br-lan inet static
  address 198.180.152.30
  netmask 255.255.255.192
  gateway 198.180.152.1
  dns-nameservers 127.0.0.1 198.180.152.11 147.28.0.35
  dns-search psg.com rg.net rpki.net
  bridge_ports    eth0
  bridge_stp      off
  bridge_fd       0
  bridge_maxwait  0

iface br-lan inet6 static
  address 2001:418:3807::30
  netmask 64
  gateway 2001:418:3807::1

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet manual

auto br-hack
iface br-hack inet static
    address         10.0.0.100
    netmask         255.255.255.0
    bridge_ports    eth1
    bridge_stp      off
    bridge_fd       0
    bridge_maxwait  0
```

Check /etc.resolv.comf

In theory, this looks like

```
               -------------+--------------
                            |
                          br-lan 
                            |         this host
                  +---------+---------+
                  |                   |
                  |       eth0        |
                  |                   |
                  +--------+----------+
                           |
                        br-hack
                           |
                           +------> to other ganeti hosts
```

## Install Ganeti

Set up to get Ganeti from backports on all three servers, vm0, vm1, and vm2

```
cat >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wheezy-backports.list
deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ wheezy-backports main
```

And then install it on all three servers

```
apt-get update
apt-get install ganeti/wheezy-backports
```

Fix up drbd

```
echo "options drbd minor_count=128 usermode_helper=/bin/true" > /etc/modprobe.d/drbd.conf
rmmod drbd      # ignore any error
modprobe drbd
```

### Initialize and Build Ganeti Cluster

Only on the master node of the cluster

```
gnt-cluster init \
  --master-netdev=br-lan \
  --enabled-hypervisors=kvm \
  -H kvm:kernel_path="",initrd_path="" \
  --vg-name=ganeti \
  -N link=br-hack \
  -s 10.0.0.103 \
  gnt0.dfw.rg.net
```

If it barfs, try

```
gnt-cluster destroy --yes-do-it
```

then re-run gnt-cluster init ...

If you get into gnutls problems check apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade

### Check That Cluster is Happy

Fix VNC passwording

```
echo 'salad-daze' > /etc/ganeti/vnc-cluster-password
gnt-cluster modify -H kvm:vnc_password_file=/etc/ganeti/vnc-cluster-password
```

Test that the cluster was built happily

```
gnt-cluster verify
```

If you get

```
Fri Mar 14 05:20:55 2014   - ERROR: node deb64.psg.com: volume ganeti/root is unknown
Fri Mar 14 05:20:55 2014   - ERROR: node deb64.psg.com: volume ganeti/swap is unknown
Fri Mar 14 05:20:55 2014   - ERROR: node deb64.psg.com: volume ganeti/var is unknown
```

That's OK.  To make it go away

```
gnt-cluster modify --reserved-lvs=ganeti/root,ganeti/swap,ganeti/var
```

## Add Nodes to Cluster

Now add vm1, vm2, and vm3 to the cluster by the following on vm0

```
gnt-node add -s 10.0.0.101 vm1
gnt-node add -s 10.0.0.102 vm2
gnt-node add -s 10.0.0.103 vm3
```

which should result in

```
vm0.dfw.rg.net:/root# gnt-node add -s 10.0.0.103 vm3
-- WARNING -- 
Performing this operation is going to replace the ssh daemon keypair
on the target machine (vm3.dfw.rg.net) with the ones of the current one
and grant full intra-cluster ssh root access to/from it

The authenticity of host 'vm3.dfw.rg.net (198.180.152.33)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is 04:31:79:b1:32:3b:6e:60:33:65:67:0f:76:9a:5a:36.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'vm3.dfw.rg.net' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Restarting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
Sat Mar 21 22:25:47 2015  - INFO: Node will be a master candidate
```