Node-Wizard & Node-Client

Version 0.5.0

A new version (0.5.0) of Node Wizard has been released, together with Node Client and Node Client WebUI. Node Wizard is an agent of Cluster Wizard, a server virtualization framework for private clusters and clouds specialized for HPC workloads. Node Wizard also has its own client applications: Node Client (CLI) and Node Client WebUI. This combination is suitable for

• Building small clusters, each managed by a single engineer.
• Air-gapped clusters with largely static VM workloads and the re-configuration needs to be automated using scripts

In this article, we will show how to install Node Wizard and Node Client in a single machine and create a VM.

Requirements

To run through this tutorial, you need a compute node, preferably a bare-metal machine with the following requirement.

• Hardware Resource: minimum 4 cores, preferably 8+ cores and 8+ GiB memory and 256 GiB storage
• OSes : Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04, 24.04), Rocky Linux 9, RHEL 9, SLES 15
• Network bridge with Internet Connection (for Ubuntu repository access)
• Packages: jq

Installation

To start, we download an auto deployment script from CORESPEQ Cluster Wizard Deployment GitHub project.

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