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

Lance Haig lance at haigmail.com
Thu Apr 23 04:12:49 UTC 2015


I have a similar option and was going to offer to do this as well :-)
I won't have as much RAM but for a POC and some dev work it should be ok.


Regards

Lance


On 22/04/2015 21:06, Pirate Fibonacci wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto: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
>     <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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>
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