Hyper-V
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OpenStack on Hyper-V
Communication
- Weekly meetings are held on Tuesdays at 16:00 UTC on Freenode in room #openstack-meeting
- There is a forum thread open for anyone that would like to have discussion around this here: http://forums.openstack.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1085
- The Openstack mailing lists can also be used for communication.
- If you have any issues with the installer or code, please file a bug, or report them to Peter Pouliot <ppouliot@microsoft.com> or Alessandro Pilotti <apilotti@cloudbase.it>.
Code
- The current development is now integrated within the core projects including Nova, Quantum, Cinder and others.
- We are currently tracking and preparing for the Havana milestones.
- Bug can be filed using the standard OpenStack practices.
OpenStack Windows Server 2012 Evaluation
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard Evaluation is now available as a downloadable image that can be directly deployed to the following OpenStack-supported hypervisors:
- Hyper-V
- KVM
- XenServer / XCP
Note: This release has a specific Microsoft-provided EULA that must be accepted before download. This is an evaluation edition meant to be used in test environments only.
Getting Started
Grizzly
- Current documentation can be found here: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/hyper-v-virtualization-platform.html
- An updated installer is available here: http://www.cloudbase.it/openstack/openstack-compute-installer/
- Installer options and documentation located here: http://www.cloudbase.it/hyper-v-nova-compute-installer-unattended-setup/
Folsom
- Folsom documentation can be found here: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/hyper-v-virtualization-platform.html
- An updated installer is available here: http://www.cloudbase.it/openstack/openstack-compute-installer/
- Installer options and documentation located here: http://www.cloudbase.it/hyper-v-nova-compute-installer-unattended-setup/
Essex
- The OpenStack Essex Compute Node installer can be found http://opns.tk/openstack_compute.exe
- Quick installation guide available at http://opns.tk/openstack_install.pdf
Supported features on Hyper-V (by release)
The latest feature set supported by Hyper-V can always be found in the Hypervisor Support Matrix.
OpenStack Havana/Windows Server 2012 R2
Work is in progress for continued support of Hyper-V in the Havana release. You can view the current set of Havana blueprints and their status here
OpenStack Grizzly/Windows Server 2012
- Launch
- Reboot
- Resize
- Pause/Unpause
- Suspend/Resume
- Inject networking
- Inject file (functionality through cloud-init for Windows)
- Volume Attach/Detach and Boot from Volume
- Live migration
- Snapshot
- iSCSI
- Set admin password (functionality through cloud-init for Windows)
- Get guest/host info
- Glance integration
- VLAN networking/Routing (VLAN and Routing functionality through the Quantum Hyper-V Plugin - VlanManager mode is not supported with nova-network)
- Flat networking
- Config drive
OpenStack Folsom/Windows Server 2008R2
- Start\Stop
- Pause\Unpause
- Suspend\Resume
- Snapshot
- Volume Attach/Detach, and Boot from Volume
Description
Grizzly
- Hyper-V code is fully integrated into the Grizzly release, with an installer available here: http://www.cloudbase.it/openstack/openstack-compute-installer/
Folsom
- Hyper-V code is fully integrated into the Folsom release, with an installer available here: http://www.cloudbase.it/openstack/openstack-compute-installer/
Essex
- The OpenStack Essex Compute Node includes various fixes, the added features mentioned above, and a service based installer.
- Python 2.7.x (32-bit) is required and MUST be installed first.
- The installer uses the Essex stable source with some back-ported changes to allow this to run as a service on windows.
- In the nova\tools\windows\msi_installer folder there is an example_nova.conf file you can use for the settings specific to Hyper-V.
- Because this runs as a service on Windows which is a bit different than Linux, your nova.conf file needs to be put in nova\bin within your OpenStack installation directory.
- You can also feel free to patch the installer and submit a pull request to the Punchy Code repo mentioned above.
Summit Presentations
- The presentation from the Grizzly summit, April 2013, is available here.
- A video presentation from the Folsom summit, Octorber 2012, can be seen here.
- The slide deck from the Essex summit talk, April 2012, is available here: http://www.slideshare.net/JordanRinke/openstack-win-final
- The slide deck presented at the 2011 Summit in Boston is available here: http://www.slideshare.net/ppouliot/2011-essex-summit-openstackhyperv-clouds