Overview and tips & tricks for HP Helion OpenStack CE as a Virtual Installation

1. HP Helion OpenStack
Community Edition
Deployment overview - Virtual mode
Márton Kiss
HP Helion MVP
marton.kiss@gmail.com

2. What is HP Helion OpenStack CE?
An OpenStack based private cloud distribution, packaged
by HP Engineers, based entirely on open-source
components.

3. What HP Helion OpenStack CE provides?
- An infrastructure as a service, including:
- VM management
- SDN network
- Object storage service
- Block storage management
- Infrastructure orchestration tool (TripleO)
- Web UI (based on Horizon)
- Service monitoring
- Log analyser

4. Deployment modes
Virtual deployment
• deployed on a single box
• qemu inside kvm guest
• demo only
Baremetal deployment
• deployed on multiple physical nodes
• kvm on native hosts
• perfect for pilot projects

5. Prerequisites
Hardware / Operating System
• single node with 64GB RAM
• Ubuntu 14.04 OS on a baremetal
Reference deployment
• i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz (12core) CPU
• 64GB memory
• 2x3TB HDD (raid 1)

6. Architecture
seed
baremetal_0 baremetal_1 baremetal_2 baremetal_3 baremetal_4 baremetal_5 baremetal_6
Lab
Workstation
Physical Server
—192.168.122.0/24
|
192.0.2.0/24
Undercloud NovaCompute0 NovaCompute1 SwiftStorage0 Controller0 Controller1 ControllerMgmt0
OVERCLOUD NODES
GUESTVMS

7. Install OS on physical hardware
Deploy seed vm
Setup the UnderCloud
Orchestrate the OverCloud instances
Deployment steps (virtual mode)

8. SEED VM UNDERCLOUD OVERCLOUD
5m 15m 45m
Deployment time
* Deployment time strongly depends on disk I/O performance (SSD suggested for testing)

9. Provision settings
VM Memory allocation NODE_MEM 8192
Controller nodes OVERCLOUD_CONTROLSCALE 1
Compute nodes OVERCLOUD_COMPUTESCALE 2
Swift nodes OVERCLOUD_SWIFTSTORAGESCALE 1
OVERCLOUD_SWIFT_REPLICA_COUNT 1
Environment Variable Value

10. Service endpoints
root@hLinux:~# bash ./hphelioncedemo/scripts/endpoints.sh
## UNDERCLOUD ##
undercloud.ip: 192.0.2.2
undercloud_dashboard.url: http://192.0.2.2
undercloud_dashboard.user: admin
undercloud_dashboard.password: 12d24XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
undercloud_kibana.url: http://192.0.2.2:81
undercloud_kibana.user: kibana
undercloud_kibana.password: 42e19XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
undercloud_icinga.url: http://192.0.2.2/icinga
undercloud_icinga.user: icingaadmin
undercloud_icinga.password: icingaadmin
## OVERCLOUD ##
overcloud.ip: 192.0.2.21
overcloud_dashboard.url: http://192.0.2.21
overcloud_dashboard.user: admin
overcloud_dashboard.password: e95d24XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

11. Overcloud Admin UI
http://192.0.2.21 (overcloud_dashboard.url)

12. Undercloud Admin UI
http://192.0.2.2 (undercloud_dashboard.url)

13. Monitoring dashboard
http://192.0.2.2/icinga (undercloud_icinga.url)

14. Log Analyzer
http://192.0.2.2:81(undercloud_kibana.url)

15. DEMO!

16. Deployment reference
Deployment guide and helper scripts available at:
http://github.com/mkissam/hphelioncedemo

17. Useful links
[1] HP Helion OpenStack 1.0 Community Virtual Installation and Configuration
http://docs.hpcloud.com/helion/community/install-virtual/
[2] HP Helion Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pSHVlbvJRBu0AnqOKbIog
[3] Configure NTP server
http://docs.hpcloud.com/helion/openstack/install/ntp/