Work on Hyper-V and OpenStack

1. Essex based Nova-Compute

2. Intro
 Peter Pouliot, CISSP
 PPouliot@microsoft.com
 IRC/Skype:primeminsterp
 Sr. Engineer in Microsoft’s Open Source Technology Center.

3. Summit Revisted: What?
 Microsoft is working to restore and
enhance Hyper-V support in OpenStack
 Microsoft is providing dedicated
resources to support ongoing
OpenStack on Hyper-V efforts
 Current development efforts focused on
Hyper-V features with Essex and
beyond

4. Summit Revisted: Why Hyper-V?
 One of the founding principles of
OpenStack was Hypervisor Ubiquity
 Allows enterprises to utilize existing
infrastructure, tools, and in-house expertise
they already have.
 Customer and partner demand is there
 It provides an enterprise OS running a
private cloud that is interoperable and
expandable into public cloud spaces
 Allows for potential System Center
Integration points

5. What we’ve been working on?
 Python32 based service
 Start/Stop VMs
 Initial Glance integration
 Resize/Rescue/Pause/Suspend Resume/Host-
Guest Info Reporting coming soon
 Silent installer
 Installation instructions
 Jenkins infrastructure and CI Testing
 Test integration planning
 Ongoing feature planning for Folsom and
beyond.

6. Improving for Folsom
 Additional VM functions
 Live Migrations
 Volume support
 Snapshots
 Support Nova-network on Hyper-V
compute node
 Non-flat Networking
 image conversion
 And more…

7. Windows Server “2012” is coming…
Lots of additional opportunities to add and improve for Folsom!

8. Let’s Recap
 This is officially a Microsoft sponsored
Project!!
 Dedicated MS staff to support
OpenStack/Hyper-V efforts
 Dedicated Hardware/Network resources
 Initial set of features improved over
previous Hyper-V functionality
 CI build out begining
 Test integration planning finalizing.

9. Post Summit additions
 Nova branch being created to ease our
integration into Folsom.
 Phase one planning is finished.
Infrastructure deployment to support CI
effort beginning.
 Weekly IRC meetings:
 Tuesdays 9:00am EST
 Freenode: #openstack-hyper-v
 First community patch submitted to enable
“enlighted” devices for VMs.
 https://github.com/pnavarro/nova/commit/6bfb07
39323c846740c49c51292b1d06101d10eb

10. Join the Movement!
 Lets make Hyper-V a premiere hypervisor
in Folsom
 Developers willing to work on extending the
Hyper-V driver for nova-compute
 Developers willing to work on at least
porting nova-network to Windows Server
“8”
 Users willing to beta test new code,
prioritize feature requests, and contribute
overall feedback
 With a little momentum this can take off!

11. Where to get it?
 http://wiki.openstack.org/Hyper-V
 Will be updated as new installer and
configuration information is available
 All other resources will stem from this
one page for unity

12. How to get involved?
 Find one of us to chat if you have
questions
 Check the wiki for links to
etherpad/forums etc. for discussion
 Email us:
 jordan@openstack.org
 ppouliot@microsoft.com