Revision as of 16:09, 6 September 2013

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

Havana

• Work in progress.

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 including support for Windows Server 2012 R2. Following are the blueprints that have been accepted into the code as of the h3 freeze:

Nova

[1] [2] [3] [4] h[ttps://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/hyper-v-vhdx] [5] h[ttps://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/hyper-v-metrics] [6]

Cinder

[7]

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