[Openstack] Compute servers configuration - best practices

Remo Mattei Remo at italy1.com
Fri Jun 13 15:14:54 UTC 2014


Nope the controller does not care where it runs. AZ allows you to select the dest and its’ pretty nice since you can have a sever with SSD or VMware etc…


On Jun 13, 2014, at 8:12, O'Reilly, Dan <Daniel.OReilly at dish.com> wrote:

> Right.  So, to do that, do I have to use something like qemu, or does the controller care?  Which is another way of asking, does the controller need to know that 1 node is Xen, one is KVM and one is VMware?  And if so, how is that configured?
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> From: Remo Mattei [mailto:Remo at italy1.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 9:11 AM
> To: O'Reilly, Dan
> Cc: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Compute servers configuration - best practices
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> No, 
> you need to configure your nova.conf file on each node so then you are set. 
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> On Jun 13, 2014, at 8:10, O'Reilly, Dan <Daniel.OReilly at dish.com> wrote:
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> Ah, yes.  But does that still affect how Openstack (specifically, the controller and compute nodes) must be configured to use Xen/KVM/VMware?
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> Thanks!
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> From: Remo Mattei [mailto:Remo at italy1.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 9:08 AM
> To: O'Reilly, Dan
> Cc: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Compute servers configuration - best practices
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> Availability Zone.
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> On Jun 13, 2014, at 8:03, O'Reilly, Dan <Daniel.OReilly at dish.com> wrote:
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> AZ?
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> From: Remo Mattei [mailto:Remo at italy1.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 9:00 AM
> To: O'Reilly, Dan
> Cc: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Compute servers configuration - best practices
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> Why don’t you use AZ for this. So you can select where you want to run a specific VM. Then you have VM on KVM, XEN etc.. based on the AZ. 
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> Remo 
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> On Jun 13, 2014, at 7:41, O'Reilly, Dan <Daniel.OReilly at dish.com> wrote:
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> I realize there have been some discussions on this in the recent past, but it has become somewhat difficult to follow.  So, I would like to take a fresh approach with  a fresh question.
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> I have the following configuration:
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> -          Controller with identity, dashboard, orchestration, image, telemetry
> -          Network box with neutron
> -          3 compute nodes (1 with LVM, 1 with Xen, 1 with VMware)
> -          1 volume node with cinder block storage (this will soon become 1 proxy server and 5 storage servers for swift object store)
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> As you can see, I would like to have 3 common flavors of hypervisors so I can pick best of breed.  From what I’ve read, qemu is the best (only) approach for this.  At this point, I have all the necessary packages installed and working on everything but the compute nodes.  What I need to do is to build an KVM node and a Xen node first, then worry about VMware later.
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> So, I need a definitive build cookbook for bringing up LVM and Xen nodes using qemu.  Right now when I try to launch instances they just get funky errors and die.  Can I pick any/all the brains of you out n OpenStack land?
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> Thanks!
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