Configuring OpenStack to Use the Xen Project Hypervisor
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Stefano Stabellini and Anthony Perard discuss and demonstrate how to use Xen Project in OpenStack. Talk is from FOSDEM 2015 in February.
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Configuring OpenStack to Use the Xen Project Hypervisor
- 1. OpenStack and Xen Stefano Stabellini & Anthony Perard Feb 2015
- 2. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.2 Why Xen? Xen is a type-1 hypervisor small footprint (Less then 100K LOC) GPLv2 Powers the largest public cloud in production (>50% of vendors listed in Gartner 2014 Cloud magic quadrant, more in terms of hosts)
- 3. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.3 Make Xen the best hypervisor for OpenStack
- 4. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.4 OpenStack
- 5. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.5 OpenStack
- 6. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.6 OpenStack
- 7. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.7 OpenStack
- 8. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.8 OpenStack
- 9. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.9 OpenStack
- 10. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.10 OpenStack
- 11. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.11 OpenStack
- 12. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.12 Status and Goals Xen via Libvirt is currently in Group C Goals: • Xen should be a great platform for OpenStack production deployments • Get Xen via Libvirt in Group A within 1 year • Xen should be a great platform for OpenStack development and hacking • devstack should deploy Xen and OpenStack
- 13. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.13 From 0 to Xen and OpenStack 1. Install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2. Install Xen apt-get install xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64 3. git clone devstack && configure it to use Xen LIBVIRT_TYPE=xen 4. ./stack.sh
- 14. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.14 From 0 to Xen and OpenStack What we actually did 1. Install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2. Install Xen apt-get install xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64 3. git clone devstack && configure it to use Xen LIBVIRT_TYPE=xen 4. ./stack.sh 5. Fix Bugs!!
- 15. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.15 Bugs 2 Xen related bug in Nova 1 Xen related bug in Libvirt Stability issues with libvirt 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.8 under stress
- 16. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.16 Bugs 2 Xen related bug in Nova 1 Xen related bug in Libvirt Stability issues with libvirt 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.8 under stress FIXED!
- 17. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.17 Bugs 2 Xen related bug in Nova 1 Xen related bug in Libvirt Stability issues with libvirt 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.8 under stress FIXED!
- 18. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.18 Latest Update 2 patches under review for Nova 1 patch upstream in Libvirt everything works out of the box! Using the latest OpenStack and libvirt trees Tempest runs and *all* tests pass!
- 19. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.19 Tuning OpenStack and Xen • Dom0 Memory: 1-4G dom0_mem=1024M • Dom0 vcpus: 4 dom0_max_vcpus=4 dom0_vcpus_pin • use LVM for local storage VOLUME_GROUP=volume_group_name • PV vs HVM guests nova image-meta set vm_mode=HVM nova image-meta delete vm_mode
- 20. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.20 More information www.xenproject.org wiki.xenproject.org wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Tuning_Xen_for_Performance wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/OpenStack http://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
- 21. Demo
- 22. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.22 Questions?
- 23. © 2014 Citrix. Confidential.23 WORK BETTER. LIVE BETTER.