Hyper-V Virtualization Platform

The following sections discuss how to prepare the Windows Hyper-V node for operation as an OpenStack Compute node. Unless stated otherwise, any configuration information should work for both the Windows 2008r2 and 2012 platforms.

Local Storage Considerations

The Hyper-V compute node needs to have ample storage for storing the virtual machine images running on the compute nodes. You may use a single volume for all, or partition it into an OS volume and VM volume. It is up to the individual deploying to decide.

Network time services must be configured to ensure proper operation of the Hyper-V compute node. To set network time on your Hyper-V host you will need to run the following commands

C:\net stop w32time
        

C:\w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:pool.ntp.org,0x8 /syncfromflags:MANUAL
        

C:\net start w32time
        

Information regarding the Hyper-V virtual Switch can be located here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831823.aspx

To quickly enable an interface to be used as a Virtual Interface the following PowerShell may be used:

PS C:\$if = Get-NetIPAddress –IPAddress 192* | Get-NetIPInterface
    

PS C:\New-VMSwitch -NetAdapterName $if.ifAlias -Name yourbridgename –AllowManagementOS $false

To prepare the Hyper-V node to be able to attach to volumes provided by cinder you must first make sure the Windows iSCSI initiator service is running and started automatically.

C:\sc start MSiSCSI
        

C:\sc config MSiSCSI start="auto"
        

Detailed information on the configuration of live migration can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134199.aspx

The following outlines the steps of shared nothing live migration.

The following two configuration options/flags are needed in order to support Hyper-V live migration and must be added to your nova.conf on the Hyper-V compute node:

Additional Requirements:

How to setup live migration on Hyper-V

To enable shared nothing live migration run the 3 PowerShell instructions below on each Hyper-V host:

PS C:\Enable-VMMigration
            

PS C:\Set-VMMigrationNetwork IP_ADDRESS
                

PS C:\Set-VMHost –VirtualMachineMigrationAuthenticationTypeKerberos
                

	Note
	Please replace the IP_ADDRESS with the address of the interface which will provide the virtual switching for nova-network.

Additional Reading

Here's an article that clarifies the various live migration options in Hyper-V:

http://ariessysadmin.blogspot.ro/2012/04/hyper-v-live-migration-of-windows.html

Python

Python 2.7.3 must be installed prior to installing the OpenStack Compute Driver on the Hyper-V server. Download and then install the MSI for windows here:

Setuptools

You will require pip to install the necessary python module dependencies. The installer will install under the C:\python27 directory structure. Setuptools for Python 2.7 for Windows can be download from here:

http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7.exe

Python Dependencies

The following packages need to be downloaded and manually installed onto the Compute Node

The following python packages need to be installed via easy_install or pip. Run the following replacing PACKAGENAME with the packages below:

C:\c:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install PACKAGE_NAME
     

Using git on Windows to retrieve source

Git be used to download the necessary source code. The installer to run Git on Windows can be downloaded here:

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?q=full+installer+official+git

Download the latest installer. Once the download is complete double click the installer and follow the prompts in the installation wizard. The default should be acceptable for the needs of the document.

Once installed you may run the following to clone the Nova code.

C:\git.exe clone https://github.com/openstack/nova.git
        

The nova.conf file must be placed in C:\etc\nova for running OpenStack on Hyper-V. Below is a sample nova.conf for Windows:

[DEFAULT]
verbose=true
force_raw_images=false
auth_strategy=keystone
fake_network=true
vswitch_name=openstack-br
logdir=c:\openstack\
state_path=c:\openstack\
lock_path=c:\openstack\
instances_path=e:\Hyper-V\instances
policy_file=C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenStack\nova\etc\nova\policy.json
api_paste_config=c:\openstack\nova\etc\nova\api-paste.ini
rabbit_host=IP_ADDRESS
glance_api_servers=IP_ADDRESS:9292
image_service=nova.image.glance.GlanceImageService
sql_connection=mysql://nova:passwd@IP_ADDRESS/nova
instances_shared_storage=false
limit_cpu_features=true
compute_driver=nova.virt.hyperv.driver.HyperVDriver
volume_api_class=nova.volume.cinder.API
        

The following table contains a reference of all optionsfor hyper-v

Hyper-V currently supports only the VHD file format for virtual machine instances. Detailed instructions for installing virtual machines on Hyper-V can be found here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772480.aspx

Once you have successfully created a virtual machine, you can then upload the image to glance using the native glance-client:

C:\glance image-create --name="VM_IMAGE_NAME" --is-public=true --container-format=bare --disk-format=vhd
    

To start the nova-compute service, run this command from a console in the Windows server:

C:\C:\python27\python.exe c:\openstack\nova\bin\nova-compute.py