XenServer/GettingStarted

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This is still a work in progress.

Getting started with XenServer and OpenStack

This is an opinionated guide to setting up an OpenStack Cloud using Xen/XenServer/XCP. Use this to get started quickly. It is far from the only way to setup OpenStack using Xen.

Required Hardware

To get started, this is probably what you want:

• Cheap switch (most home routers will do)
• Linux machine (preferably, running Ubuntu 11.10)
• XenServer capable machine
• (optional) Windows machine to run Citrix XenCenter (the official XenServer GUI)

Planning your Deployment

The most important part of planning is getting your head around the networking.

Take a look at the diagram in the wiki page on XenServer deployment.

It is probably best to configure your XenServer like this:

• assuming two network cards
• use nic0 (the bridge called xenbr0) to have management networks

(TODO: provide example xenrc file for devstack)

Steps to get OpenStack running on XenServer

Here is what you need to do:

# Install XenServer 6.0.2 by running the CD install
# Use DevStack to create the XVA image for the VM that will run the nova services
# Prepare XenServer with xapi plugins and vif isolation rules
# Install the VM

Steps to add a second compute node

You can use DevStack to deploy a node that only has compute.

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