Standard_F64als_v6 on CycleCloud/PBS

TA齊藤　隆之（アンクル）(Saito Takayuki)_SCC 0 Reputation points
2025-11-01T23:57:59.3733333+00:00

We want to use Standard_F64als_v6 as an execute node of CycleCloud/PBS.
<move to private message for security reasons > is selected as an image for execute node.

The process creating an execute node seems to be stranded before 'configuring software' phase.
I hope someone knows the workaround for such a situation.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-11-05T13:12:59.89+00:00

    Hello @TA齊藤　隆之（アンクル）(Saito Takayuki)_SCC ,

    The symptom raises the suspicion over the path to the blob file being blocked (failed to download response and write to file).

    1. Could you please manually login to the RHEL VM and try nslookup for that storage blob hostname ?
      sample command: 
         nslookup <storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net
      Additionally, it'll be good to test the same manually using curl command to see if it works now (because while installation it throws EOF error)
      sample command: 
         curl -v -L "https://<storage-acconut>.blob.core.windows.net/cyclecloud/cache/jetpack/8.7.1/jetpack-8.7.1-linux.tar.gz?{SAS-if-any}" -o /tmp/jetpack.tgz

    As a work-around, you can install Jetpack via YUM so the node doesn’t need to pull files from your storage blob.

    Sample yaml file which can help to install via cloud-init:

    sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/cyclecloud.repo <<'EOF'
[cyclecloud]
name=cyclecloud
baseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/cyclecloud
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
EOF

sudo yum install -y jetpack8
#run jetpack init if needed

    Note: This path uses packages.microsoft.com, bypassing your Storage account entirely for the Jetpack payload. (reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cyclecloud/how-to/install-jetpack?view=cyclecloud-8#install-jetpack-with-yum-or-apt)

    If you’re in an office/organisation network, ensure outbound to packages.microsoft.com:443 is allowed.

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