Installing additional runtime cloud clusters on Windows

After installing the initial runtime cloud cluster on your Windows operating system, install additional runtime cluster nodes to give your application more processing power.

Before you begin

Before completing these steps, set up the runtime cloud's Windows service.

Warning

If there are Unicode characters in the directory path to where you intend to install the runtime cloud cluster nodes, the installation will fail.

About this task

Run these steps on each machine you add to the runtime cloud.

Procedure

1. Open a PowerShell command window.

2. On the machine on which you want to run the runtime cloud cluster, navigate to the /bin directory of the full UNC path of the Cloud, such as cd //<host_name>/Share/<cloud_installation_directory>/bin.

3. Temporarily set the Execution Policy for PowerShell to be unrestricted for this session.

4. In the Powershell window, run the following: set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

5. Run the node-install.ps1 file using the following: ./node-install.ps1

6. Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services.

7. Right-click the Cloud service you created and select Properties.

8. Click the Log On tab. Change the service to log on as the user created for the runtime cloud.

9. If the user is a Service User and not a Local Administrator of the machine, they need to change the Service DACL as described in the instructions for installing the initial runtime cloud cluster.

10. Start the service.

11. After starting the new runtime cloud cluster, verify that it joined the Cloud by looking in the \<cloud\_installation\_directory/logs/<date\>.container.\<machine\_IP\_address\>.log file for a message like:

    INFO: Started <machine_IP_address> as CloudletAddress <machine_IP_address>:7800, initial cluster view: CloudletAddress <other_machine_IP_address:7800, CloudletAddress <machine_IP_address>:7800, ...