[Openstack-operators] Hypervisor decision

Ben Hines bhines at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 08:17:34 UTC 2015


Hey Tim,

Which networking mode do you use with Hyper-V? We wanted to us it with
nova-network HA mode but found it would not work with that configuration.

Neutron HA-DVR we are considering.

-Ben

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

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> We had a Hyper-V based environment previously so the migration to
> OpenStack was made easier by having Hyper-V also in the cloud.
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> We also find this avoids a set of driver issues and gives us a single
> vendor stack when we are reporting problems.
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> It's good to make sure we keep the correct architecture that the
> hypervisor is not 'hardcoded' into the infrastructure.
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> Downside is some additional packaging work but Puppet looks after most of
> the configuration. In addition, we currently only have volumes with ceph on
> the KVM base since there is no ceph driver for Windows
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> We've around 200 Hyper-V hypervisors but the majority (about 3,200) are on
> KVM.
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> Tim
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> *From:* Maish Saidel-Keesing [mailto:maishsk at maishsk.com]
> *Sent:* 19 March 2015 08:19
> *To:* openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-operators] Hypervisor decision
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> That is interesting Tim.
>
> Why Hyper-V if I may ask? Why not stick just with KVM?
>
> Maish
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> On 19/03/15 08:22, Tim Bell wrote:
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> At CERN, we run KVM and Hyper-V. Both work fine.
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> Depending on the size of your cluster, you may have other factors to
> consider such as monitoring and configuration management. We use Puppet to
> configure both environnments.
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> Images are tagged with a property hypervisor_type which is used to
> schedule workloads to the appropriate hypervisor.
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> Tim
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> *From:* matt [mailto:matt at nycresistor.com <matt at nycresistor.com>]
> *Sent:* 18 March 2015 23:24
> *To:* Abel Lopez
> *Cc:* openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-operators] Hypervisor decision
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> most openstack environments at kvm, so if you want to stick with the herd,
> that's the way to go.
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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Abel Lopez <alopgeek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting topic, since you're already running Hyper-v and ESX, I'm
> inferring that your workload is heavy on windows VMs.
> If you're doing majority windows, and minority linux, stick with hyper-v.
> The benchmarks I've read show that windows VMs run fastest on hyper-v VS
> all others.
> If you expect an even split, it might make sense to create Host Aggregates
> of various hypervisiors like hyper-v and KVM, and utilize extra-specs in
> the flavors and guest images to aid in scheduling, for example "Windows
> images launch on the hyper-v pool"
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> > On Mar 18, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Vytenis Silgalis <vsilgalis at outlook.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking to champion openstack at my company, we currently run both a
> small hyper-v cluster and 3 VMware clusters.   However we are not married
> to any specific hypervisor.  What I'm looking for is recommendations for
> which hypervisor we should look at for our openstack environments and the
> pros/con's people have run into with the various hypervisors supported by
> openstack.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vytenis
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