[Openstack] Hosting Controller and Network Nodes as VM's?

Pirate Fibonacci pirate112358 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 19:06:12 UTC 2015


Thiago,

excellent configuration. This configuration is worthy of a step by set up
write-up if it doesn't already exist.

do you have a script or notes on how to do this?  I'll be giving the above
configuration a try really soon. I would be
willing to document and share it.




On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Lance,
>
> Currently, I'm running all nodes as VMs (everything is Ubuntu 14.04.2 -
> 64-bit - Minimum Installation), to test it.
>
>
> Where:
>
> 1- Physical Host with KVM - 4 physical ethernets - 32G of RAM;
>
> 1- VM with Juno Controller - 1 ethernet VirtIO - 4G;
> 1- VM with Juno Network - 3 ethernet VirtIO - 2G;
> 1- VM with Juno Compute - 2 ethernet VirtIO - 16G + KVM with Nested
> Virtualization, where the VM can have its own VMs without being slow);
>
> 1- VM with Kilo Controller - 1 ethernet VirtIO - 4G;
> 1- VM with Kilo Network - 3 ethernet VirtIO - 2G;
> 1- VM with Kilo Compute - 2 ethernet VirtIO -16G + KVM with Nested
> Virtualization, where the VM can have its own VMs without being slow);
>
>
> NOTE: Both the Host and Kilo VMs, have the same "Ubuntu Cloud Archive"
> enabled (`add-apt-repository cloud-archive:kilo`). So, I can get the latest
> libvirt + QEmu for the Host itself. And Juno VMs have `add-apt-repository
> cloud-archive:juno` archive.
>
> For a production environment, I'm sure you can have at least, the
> Controller as a VM. While the Network node will be a bit slow as a VM, but
> it works.
>
> Also, I have enabled at the Host and at the Compute Nodes, KSM and
> VHOST_NET at /etc/default/qemu-kvm config file. So I can share RAM memory
> pages between VMs (KSM) and speed up the network traffic (VHOST).
>
> Cheers!
> Thiago
>
> On 21 April 2015 at 12:25, Lance Haig <lance at haigmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> I know that OS is available from a number of distributions.
>> Which OS would be the best to use for a Juno install.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Lance
>>
>>
>> On 20/04/2015 17:22, Remo Mattei wrote:
>>
>>> You should be fine since nfs is one of the supported back-end.
>>>
>>> Remo
>>>
>>> Inviato da iPhone
>>>
>>>  Il giorno 20/apr/2015, alle ore 07:55, Lance Haig <lance at haigmail.com>
>>>> ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am in the process of planning an openstack deployment and was
>>>> wondering if you could host the controller and network nodes as VM's on a
>>>> KVM compute node?
>>>>
>>>> I have 2 Physical hosts and a small NFS SAN right now and would like to
>>>> utilise the resources of both initially before the solution expands.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a supported solution?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Lance
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Lance Haig
>>>>
>>>> Cape Town
>>>>
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>>
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