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The Avere virtual FXT (vFXT) Python library and vfxt.py command line utility provide the ability to create, extend, destroy, start, and stop vFXT clusters in all supported cloud environments.

Licensed under the MIT License.

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Find more detailed user documentation in this repository under docs.

1. Create a controller VM

Make a preconfigured Cluster Controller Node virtual machine. It has vfxt.py and all necessary packages pre-installed.

The Azure Marketplace also has the Avere vFXT for Azure ARM template documentation, which is a wizard-based cluster creation tool. That process is described in Avere vFXT for Azure documentation.

2. Connect and login

Login with the azure-cli.

az login

Run vfxt.py

This relies on the default values in the script:

• nodes: 3
• node cache: 1024

Set some variables:

SUBSCRIPTION="subscription"
TENANT="tenant"
RESOURCE_GROUP="resource_group"
LOCATION="region"
ADMIN_PASSWORD="admin_password"
CLUSTER_NAME="cluster_name"
VNET="vnet_name" # same vnet as controller
TYPE="Standard_E32s_v3"

STORAGE_ACCOUNT="storage_account_name"
# if this doesn't exist yet, run `az storage account create -g "$RESOURCE_GROUP" -n "$STORAGE_ACCOUNT"`

SUBNET="subnet_name"
# same subnet as controller; if this doesn't exist yet, run
# `az network vnet subnet create -n "$SUBNET" -g "$RESOURCE_GROUP" --address-prefixes "10.0.2.0/24" --vnet-name "$VNET"`

vfxt.py
    --create                                  \
    --from-environment                        \
    --cloud-type           azure              \
    --subscription-id      "$SUBSCRIPTION"    \
    --tenant-id            "$TENANT"          \
    --azure-network        "$VNET"            \
    --azure-subnet         "$SUBNET"          \
    --location             "$LOCATION"        \
    --resource-group       "$RESOURCE_GROUP"  \
    --cluster-name         "$CLUSTER_NAME"    \
    --admin-password       "$ADMIN_PASSWORD"  \
    --storage-account      "$STORAGE_ACCOUNT" \
    --instance-type        "$INSTANCE_TYPE"