Slides presented at the OpenStack Summit October 2012

1. OpenStack/Hyper-V
FOLSOM DEEP DIVE

2. Intro
 Alessandro Pilotti
 Cloudbase Solutions
 apilotti@cloudbasesolutions.com
 Peter Pouliot, CISSP
 Microsoft
 ppouliot@microsoft.com

3. OpenStack Essex Summit
 Goals:
 Organize a development community to support
and maintain the OpenStack/Hyper-V codebase
 Re-Integrate Hyper-V codebase for Folsom Release
 Make Hyper-V server the premier hypervisor for
OpenStack compute workloads

4. Folsom Success story
 Established a community
 5+ active members contributing
 Hyper-V restored in Folsom
 All code Integrated and maintained within the
active Nova-Compute codebase on Github
 Original Functionality restored and greatly
improved
 Hyper-V v3 Server 2012 released and ready for
OpenStack compute

5. Microsoft’s Hyper-V Server 2012
Ready for you to try with OpenStack
Folsom!

6. Key Code Contributions
for Folsom
 Alessandro Pilotti
 Pause/Un-pause, Suspend/Resume,
 Snapshot, Live Migration
 Folsom integration, Hyper-V unit Testing Framework
 Folsom Installer
 Pedro Navarro Perez
 Volume attach/Detach
 Boot from volume
 Jordan Rinke
 Initial integration and Essex installer

7. Hyper-V 2012 and
OpenStack
 Python Application installed as an
application/service on the Hyper-V node.
 OpenStack compute utilizes key features baked
into the Hyper-V Virtualization Platform
 Does not require windows clustering services
 Does not require shared storage

8. Which Operating
Systems?
 Operating Systems:
 Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
 Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2012
 Windows 8 (Testing / Development only)

9. OpenStack Quick
Reference

10. Hyper-V/Glance
Integration
 Native glance client support on Windows.
 Upload images directly from the windows
compute node
 VHDx support planned for Grizzly

11. Volume Attach/Detach
Requirements
 Windows iSCSI initiator service enabled and
running on hyper-v compute node.
 Configuration can be scripted
 Create, attach detach volumes using the
OpenStack Dashboard or Nova commands.
 OS must be installed directly onto the created
volume for “boot from volume” instances

12. Live Migration
Requirements
 Each compute node must have Active Directory
Domain Membership
 Nova-compute service must be running under an
Active Directory Domain account.
 Shared nothing live migration can be enabled via
simple powershell commands or from the Hyper-V
management GUI.
 Live Migration initiated via nova live-migration
commands

13. MSI Installer
Features:
 Independent Python environment to avoid conflicts
with existing applications
 Installs and registers all the required dependencies
 Generates dynamically a nova.conf file based on
the parameters provided by the user
 Creates a new Hyper-V external switch if required
 Registers Nova Compute as a service and starts it
 Enables the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator service (optional)

14. MSI Installer Continued..
 Enables and configures Hyper-V Live Migration
(optional )
 FreeRDP for Hyper-V console access
 Installs a command prompt shortcut in the
applications menu for a ready made OpenStack
prompt (optional)
 Can be executed fully unattended and
automated

15. Grizzly is Coming
 Planning for Grizzly now!
 Quantum
 RDP access to VM Consoles
 Windows Guest Agent
 Cinder

16. Get Involved!
 How can you help?
 Testing
 Documentation
 Find us to chat or ask questions
 Email:
 ppouliot@Microsoft.com
 apilotti@cloudbasesolutions.com