Revision as of 16:47, 14 June 2013

OpenStack/Hyper-V Compute

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>, Alessandro Pilotti <apilotti@cloudbase.it> or Jordan Rinke <jordan@openstack.org>.

Code

• The current development is now integrated within the core Nova project.
• We are currently preparing for the Havana milestones.
• Bug can be filed using the standard OpenStack practices.

Getting Started

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

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/

Current supported features on Hyper-V (by release)

OpenStack Grizzly/Windows Server 2012

• Hyper-V feature support can be found in the Hypervisor Support Matrix.

OpenStack Folsom/Windows Server 2008R2

• Start\Stop
• Pause\Unpause
• Suspend\Resume
• Snapshot
• Volume Attach/Detach, and Boot from Volume

Description

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.

Folsom

• Hyper-V code is fully integrated into the Folsom release, with an installer available here: http://www.cloudbase.it/openstack/openstack-compute-installer/

Summit Presentations

• The Slide deck presented at the 2011 Summit in Boston is available here: http://www.slideshare.net/ppouliot/2011-essex-summit-openstackhyperv-clouds
• The slide deck from the Essex summit talk is available here: http://www.slideshare.net/JordanRinke/openstack-win-final