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

Lance Haig lance at haigmail.com
Thu Apr 23 04:10:05 UTC 2015


Tiago,

I am not sure how I missed this reply.

Thank you So much for this info.

It is VERY helpful.

Did you use a deployment tool or are these manually installed.

Thanks again

Lance


On 21/04/2015 18:57, Martinx - ジェームズ 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>
>
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