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Components Configuration
Configure the Oslo RPC messaging system
Configure the Compute API
Configure the EC2 API
Configure quotas
Configure remote console access
Configuring Compute Service Groups
Fibre Channel support in Compute
Configure multiple Compute nodes
Hypervisors
Scheduling
Cells
Conductor
Security hardening
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1. Identity Service
Identity Service configuration files
Certificates for PKI
Sign certificate issued by external CA
Request a signing certificate from an external CA
Install an external signing certificate
Configure the Identity Service with SSL
SSL configuration
External authentication with the Identity Service
Use HTTPD authentication
Use X.509
Configure the Identity Service with an LDAP back-end
Configure the Identity Service for token binding
Identity Service sample configuration files
2. Compute
Post-Installation Configuration
Setting Configuration Options in the nova.conf File
General Compute configuration overview
Example nova.conf Configuration Files
Small, private cloud
KVM, Flat, MySQL, and Glance, OpenStack or EC2 API
XenServer, Flat networking, MySQL, and Glance, OpenStack API
Configuring Logging
Configuring Hypervisors
Configuring Authentication and Authorization
Configure Compute to use IPv6 addresses
Configure migrations
KVM-Libvirt
Enable true live migration
XenServer
Shared storage
Block migration
Configuring Resize
XenServer
Database configuration
Components Configuration
Configure the Oslo RPC messaging system
Configure RabbitMQ
Configure Qpid
Configure ZeroMQ
Configure messaging
Configure the Compute API
Configure Compute API password handling
Configure Compute API rate limiting
Define limits
Default limits
Configure and change limits
Configuration reference
Configure the EC2 API
Configure quotas
Manage Compute service quotas
View and update Compute quotas for a tenant (project)
View and update Compute quotas for a tenant user
Configure remote console access
VNC console proxy
About nova-consoleauth
Typical deployment
VNC configuration options
nova-novncproxy (noVNC)
Frequently asked questions about VNC access to virtual machines
SPICE console
Configuring Compute Service Groups
Database ServiceGroup driver
ZooKeeper ServiceGroup driver
Fibre Channel support in Compute
KVM host requirements
Install required packages
Configure multiple Compute nodes
Hypervisors
Hypervisor configuration basics
KVM
Enable KVM
Intel-based processors
AMD-based processors
Specify the CPU model of KVM guests
Host model (default for KVM & QEMU)
Host pass through
Custom
None (default for all libvirt-driven hypervisors other than KVM & QEMU)
Guest agent support
KVM performance tweaks
Troubleshoot KVM
QEMU
Tips and fixes for QEMU on RHEL
Xen, XenAPI, XenServer, and XCP
Xen terminology
Privileged and unprivileged domains
Paravirtualized versus hardware virtualized domains
XenAPI Deployment Architecture
XenAPI pools
Further reading
Install XenServer and XCP
Post-installation steps
Install the XenAPI plug-ins
Manually install the plug-in
Package a XenServer supplemental pack
Prepare for AMI type images
Modify Dom0 for resize/migration support
Xen boot from ISO
Xen configuration reference
Agent
Firewall
VNC proxy address
Storage
Xen configuration reference
LXC (Linux containers)
VMware vSphere
Introduction
High-level architecture
Configuration overview
Prerequisites and limitations
VMware vCenter driver
VMwareVCDriver configuration options
Images with VMware vSphere
Supported image types
Convert and load images
Tag VMware images
Optimize images
Image handling
Networking with VMware vSphere
Volumes with VMware vSphere
vSphere 5.0 and earlier additional set up
VMware ESX driver
VMwareESXDriver configuration options
Requirements and limitations
Configuration reference
PowerVM
Introduction
Configuration
Limitations
Hyper-V virtualization platform
Hyper-V configuration
Configure NTP
Configure Hyper-V virtual switching
Enable iSCSI initiator service
Configure shared nothing live migration
Python Requirements
Install Nova-compute
Configure Nova.conf
Prepare images for use with Hyper-V
Run Compute with Hyper-V
Troubleshoot Hyper-V configuration
Bare metal driver
Docker driver
Scheduling
Filter scheduler
Filters
AggregateCoreFilter
AggregateInstanceExtraSpecsFilter
AggregateMultiTenancyIsolation
AggregateRamFilter
AllHostsFilter
AvailabilityZoneFilter
ComputeCapabilitiesFilter
ComputeFilter
CoreFilter
DifferentHostFilter
DiskFilter
GroupAffinityFilter
GroupAntiAffinityFilter
ImagePropertiesFilter
IsolatedHostsFilter
JsonFilter
RamFilter
RetryFilter
SameHostFilter
SimpleCIDRAffinityFilter
Weights
Chance Scheduler
Host aggregates
Command-line interface
Configure scheduler to support host aggregates
Example: Specify compute hosts with SSDs
XenServer hypervisor pools to support live migration
Configuration reference
Cells
Cell configuration options
Configure the API (top-level) cell
Configure the child cells
Configure the database in each cell
Cell scheduling configuration
Optional cell configuration
Conductor
Security hardening
Trusted compute pools
Configure Compute to use trusted compute pools
Configuration reference
Specify trusted flavors
Compute configuration files: nova.conf
File format for nova.conf
Overview
Types of configuration options
Sections
Variable substitution
Whitespace
Define an alternate location for nova.conf
Configuration options
3. Image Service
Image property protection
4. Networking
Networking configuration options
Networking plug-ins
BigSwitch configuration options
Brocade configuration options
CISCO configuration options
CloudBase Hyper-V plug-in configuration options (deprecated)
CloudBase Hyper-V Agent configuration options
Linux bridge plug-in configuration options (deprecated)
Linux bridge Agent configuration options
Mellanox configuration options
Meta Plug-in configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Flat Type configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) VXLAN Type configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Arista Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Cisco Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) L2 Population Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Tail-f NCS Mechanism configuration options
MidoNet configuration options
NEC configuration options
Nicira NVP configuration options
Open vSwitch plug-in configuration options (deprecated)
Open vSwitch Agent configuration options
PLUMgrid configuration options
Ryu configuration options
Configure the Oslo RPC messaging system
Configure RabbitMQ
Configure Qpid
Configure ZeroMQ
Configure messaging
Agent
API
Database
Logging
Metadata Agent
Policy
Quotas
Scheduler
Security Groups
SSL
Testing
WSGI
Identity Service
Compute
Networking API and credential configuration
Configure security groups
Configure metadata
Example nova.conf (for nova-compute and nova-api)
Networking scenarios
Open vSwitch
Configuration
Scenario 1: one tenant, two networks, one router
Scenario 1: Compute host config
Types of network devices
Integration bridge
Physical connectivity bridge
VLAN translation
Security groups: iptables and Linux bridges
Scenario 1: Network host config
Open vSwitch internal ports
DHCP agent
L3 agent (routing)
Overlapping subnets and network namespaces
Scenario 2: two tenants, two networks, two routers
Scenario 2: Compute host config
Scenario 2: Network host config
Linux Bridge
Configuration
Scenario 1: one tenant, two networks, one router
Scenario 1: Compute host config
Types of network devices
Scenario 1: Network host config
Scenario 2: two tenants, two networks, two routers
Scenario 2: Compute host config
Scenario 2: Network host config
ML2
ML2 with L2 population mechanism driver
Scenario 1: L2 population with Open vSwitch agent
Scenario 2: L2 population with Linux Bridge agent
Enable security group API
Advanced configuration options
OpenStack Networking server with plug-in
DHCP agent
Namespace
L3 Agent
Namespace
Multiple floating IP pools
L3 Metering Agent
Namespace
L3 metering driver
L3 metering service driver
Limitations
Scalable and highly available DHCP agents
Configuration
Commands in agent management and scheduler extensions
5. Dashboard
Configure the dashboard
Configure the dashboard for HTTP
Configure the dashboard for HTTPS
Change the size of the dashboard VNC window
Customize the dashboard
6. Object Storage
Introduction to Object Storage
Object Storage general service configuration
Object server configuration
Sample object server configuration file
Container server configuration
Sample container server configuration file
Account server configuration
Sample account server configuration file
Proxy server configuration
Sample proxy server configuration file
Configure Object Storage features
Object Storage zones
Rackspace zone recommendations
RAID controller configuration
Throttle resources through rate limits
Configure rate limiting
Health check
Domain remap
CNAME lookup
Temporary URL
Name check filter
Constraints
Cluster health
Static Large Object (SLO) support
Container quotas
Account quotas
Bulk delete
Configure Object Storage with the S3 API
Drive audit
Form post
Static web sites
7. Block Storage
Introduction to the Block Storage Service
cinder.conf configuration file
Volume drivers
Ceph RADOS Block Device (RBD)
RADOS?
Ways to store, use, and expose data
Driver options
Coraid AoE driver configuration
Terminology
Requirements
Overview
Install the Coraid AoE driver
Create a storage profile
Create a storage repository and get the FQRN
Configure options in the cinder.conf file
Create and associate a volume type
Dell EqualLogic volume driver
EMC SMI-S iSCSI driver
System requirements
Supported operations
Task flow
Install the python-pywbem package
Set up SMI-S
Register with VNX
Create a masking view on VMAX
cinder.conf configuration file
cinder_emc_config.xml configuration file
GlusterFS driver
HDS iSCSI volume driver
System requirements
Supported Cinder operations
Configuration
Single back-end
Multi back-end
Type extra specs: volume_backend and volume type
Non differentiated deployment of HUS arrays
HDS iSCSI volume driver configuration options
HP 3PAR Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
System requirements
Supported operations
Enable the HP 3PAR Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
HP / LeftHand SAN
Huawei storage driver
Supported operations
Configure Cinder nodes
Configuration file details
IBM XIV/DS8K volume driver
IBM GPFS volume driver
How the GPFS driver works
Enable the GPFS driver
Volume creation options
Example: Volume creation options
Operational notes for GPFS driver
Snapshots and clones
IBM Storwize family and SVC volume driver
Configure the Storwize family and SVC system
Network configuration
iSCSI CHAP authentication
Configure storage pools
Configure user authentication for the driver
Create a SSH key pair with OpenSSH
Configure the Storwize family and SVC driver
Enable the Storwize family and SVC driver
Storwize family and SVC driver options in cinder.conf
Placement with volume types
Configure per-volume creation options
Example: Volume types
Operational notes for the Storwize family and SVC driver
Migrate volumes
Extend volumes
Snapshots and clones
NetApp unified driver
NetApp clustered Data ONTAP storage family
NetApp iSCSI configuration for clustered Data ONTAP
Configuration options for clustered Data ONTAP family with iSCSI protocol
NetApp NFS configuration for clustered Data ONTAP
Configuration options for the clustered Data ONTAP family with NFS protocol
NetApp 7-Mode Data ONTAP storage family
NetApp iSCSI configuration for 7-Mode storage controller
Configuration options for the 7-Mode Data ONTAP storage family with iSCSI protocol
NetApp NFS configuration for 7-Mode Data ONTAP
Configuration options for the 7-Mode Data ONTAP family with NFS protocol
Driver options
Upgrading NetApp drivers to Havana
Upgraded NetApp drivers
Driver upgrade configuration
Deprecated NetApp drivers
Nexenta drivers
Nexenta iSCSI driver
Enable the Nexenta iSCSI driver and related options
Nexenta NFS driver
Enable the Nexenta NFS driver and related options
NFS driver
How the NFS driver works
Enable the NFS driver and related options
How to use the NFS driver
NFS driver notes
SolidFire
VMware VMDK driver
Configuration
VMDK disk type
Clone type
Supported operations
Datastore selection
Windows
XenAPINFS
Requirements
Configuration patterns
Configuration options
XenAPI Storage Manager volume driver
Design and operation
Definitions
Operation
Configure XenAPI Storage Manager
Prerequisites
Configuration
Create and access the volumes from VMs
Zadara
Backup drivers
Ceph backup driver
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager backup driver
Swift backup driver
A. Community support
Documentation
ask.openstack.org
OpenStack mailing lists
The OpenStack wiki
The Launchpad Bugs area
The OpenStack IRC channel
Documentation feedback
OpenStack distribution packages
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