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OpenStack configuration overview
Conventions
Notices
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Document change history
Configuration file format
Sections
Substitution
Whitespace
Define an alternate location for a config file
1. Bare metal
2. Block Storage
Introduction to the Block Storage service
Volume drivers
Ceph RADOS Block Device (RBD)
RADOS
Ways to store, use, and expose data
Driver options
Dell EqualLogic volume driver
Dell Storage Center Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
Supported operations
iSCSI configuration
Fibre Channel configuration
Driver options
EMC VMAX iSCSI and FC drivers
System requirements
Supported operations
Set up the VMAX drivers
Install the python-pywbem package
Set up SMI-S
cinder.conf configuration file
cinder_emc_config_CONF_GROUP_ISCSI.xml configuration file
FC Zoning with VMAX
iSCSI with VMAX
VMAX masking view and group naming info
Masking view names
Initiator group names
FA port groups
Storage group names
Concatenated or striped volumes
EMC VNX direct driver
Supported OpenStack release
System requirements
Supported operations
Preparation
Install NaviSecCLI
Install Block Storage driver
FC zoning with VNX (EMCCLIFCDriver only)
Register with VNX
EMCCLIFCDriver
EMCCLIISCSIDriver
Backend configuration
Authentication
Restriction of deployment
Restriction of volume extension
Restriction of iSCSI attachment
Provisioning type (thin, thick, deduplicated and compressed)
Fully automated storage tiering support
FAST Cache support
Storage group automatic deletion
EMC storage-assisted volume migration
Initiator auto registration
Initiator auto deregistration
Read-only volumes
Multiple pools support
Volume number threshold
FC SAN auto zoning
Multi-backend configuration
Force delete volumes in storage groups
EMC XtremIO Block Storage driver configuration
Support matrix
Supported operations
XtremIO Block Storage driver configuration
XtremIO driver name
XtremIO management server (XMS) IP
XtremIO cluster name
XtremIO user credentials
Multiple back ends
Setting thin provisioning and multipathing parameters
Restarting OpenStack Block Storage
Configuring CHAP
Configuration example
GlusterFS driver
HDS HNAS iSCSI and NFS driver
Supported operations
HNAS storage requirements
Block storage host requirements
Package installation
Driver configuration
HNAS volume driver XML configuration options
Service labels
Multi-back-end configuration
SSH configuration
Editing the XML config file:
Additional notes
HDS HUS iSCSI driver
System requirements
Supported operations
Configuration
HUS setup
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
Hitachi storage volume driver
System requirements
Supported operations
Configuration
Set up Hitachi storage
Set up Hitachi Gigabit Fibre Channel adaptor
Set up Hitachi storage volume driver
HP 3PAR Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
System requirements
Supported operations
Enable the HP 3PAR Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
HP LeftHand/StoreVirtual driver
HP LeftHand/StoreVirtual REST driver standard mode
System requirements
Supported operations
Enable the HP LeftHand/StoreVirtual iSCSI driver in standard mode
HP LeftHand/StoreVirtual CLIQ driver legacy mode
Supported operations
Enable the HP LeftHand/StoreVirtual iSCSI driver in legacy mode
Huawei storage driver
Supported operations
Configure block storage nodes
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
QOS
Operational notes for the Storwize family and SVC driver
Migrate volumes
Extend volumes
Snapshots and clones
Volume retype
IBM XIV and DS8000 volume driver
IBM FlashSystem volume driver
Configure FlashSystem
Data Path configuration
Configure storage array
Configure user authentication for the driver
IBM FlashSystem FC driver
Enable IBM FlashSystem FC driver
Limitation and known issues
Supported operations
LVM
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 NFS Copy Offload client
NetApp-supported extra specs for clustered Data ONTAP
NetApp Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode storage family
NetApp iSCSI configuration for Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
Configuration options for the Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode storage family with iSCSI protocol
NetApp NFS configuration for Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
Configuration options for the Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode family with NFS protocol
NetApp E-Series storage family
NetApp iSCSI configuration for E-Series
Configuration options for E-Series storage family with iSCSI protocol
Upgrading prior NetApp drivers to the NetApp unified driver
Upgraded NetApp drivers
Driver upgrade configuration
Deprecated NetApp drivers
Nimble volume driver
NFS driver
How the NFS driver works
Enable the NFS driver and related options
How to use the NFS driver
NFS driver notes
ProphetStor Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
Supported operations
Enable the Fibre Channel or iSCSI drivers
Pure Storage volume driver
Limitations and known issues
Supported operations
Configure OpenStack and Purity
Quobyte driver
Scality SOFS driver
Supported operations
Configuration
Sheepdog driver
SambaFS driver
SolidFire
VMware VMDK driver
Functional context
Configuration
VMDK disk type
Clone type
Use vCenter storage policies to specify back-end data stores
Supported operations
Storage policy-based configuration in vCenter
Prerequisites
Create storage policies in vCenter
Data store selection
Windows iSCSI volume driver
Installing using the OpenStack cinder volume installer
Windows Server configuration
Getting the code
Configure cinder-volume
Running cinder-volume
X-IO volume driver
Requirements
Supported operations
Configure X-IO Volume driver
Fibre Channel
iSCSI
Optional configuration parameters
Multipath
Volume types
Examples
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance NFS driver
Requirements
Supported operations
Appliance configuration
Cinder service configuration
Driver options
Backup drivers
Ceph backup driver
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager backup driver
Swift backup driver
NFS backup driver
Block Storage sample configuration files
cinder.conf
api-paste.ini
policy.json
rootwrap.conf
Log files used by Block Storage
Fibre Channel Zone Manager
Configure Block Storage to use Fibre Channel Zone Manager
Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Driver
System requirements
Cisco Fibre Channel Zone Driver
System requirements
Volume encryption with static key
Initial configuration
Create encrypted volume type
Create an encrypted volume
Testing volume encryption
Additional options
New, updated and deprecated options in Kilo for OpenStack Block Storage
3. Compute
Overview of nova.conf
Sections
Configure logging
Configure authentication and authorization
Configure resize
KVM
XenServer
Database 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
Fibre Channel support in Compute
KVM host requirements
Install required packages
iSCSI interface and offload support in Compute
iSCSI iface configuration
Hypervisors
Hypervisor configuration basics
KVM
Enable KVM
For x86 based systems
Intel-based processors
AMD-based processors
For POWER based systems
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
Xen, XAPI, XenServer
Terminology
Xen
XAPI
XenAPI
XenServer
Privileged and unprivileged domains
Paravirtualized versus hardware virtualized domains
XenAPI deployment architecture
Further reading
Install XenServer
Post-installation steps
Install XAPI plug-ins
Manually installing the plug-ins
Prepare for AMI type images
Modify dom0 for resize/migration support
Xen configuration reference
Agent
VNC proxy address
Storage
XenAPI configuration reference
LXC (Linux containers)
VMware vSphere
Introduction
High-level architecture
Configuration overview
Prerequisites and limitations
VMware vCenter service account
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
Configuration reference
Hyper-V virtualization platform
Hyper-V configuration
Local storage considerations
Configure NTP
Configure Hyper-V virtual switching
Enable iSCSI initiator service
Configure shared nothing live migration
Install nova-compute using OpenStack Hyper-V installer
Requirements
Python
Python dependencies
Other dependencies
Install Nova-compute
Download the nova code
Install nova-compute service
Configure nova-compute
Prepare images for use with Hyper-V
Run Compute with Hyper-V
Troubleshoot Hyper-V configuration
Scheduling
Filter scheduler
Filters
AggregateCoreFilter
AggregateDiskFilter
AggregateImagePropertiesIsolation
AggregateInstanceExtraSpecsFilter
AggregateIoOpsFilter
AggregateMultiTenancyIsolation
AggregateNumInstancesFilter
AggregateRamFilter
AggregateTypeAffinityFilter
AllHostsFilter
AvailabilityZoneFilter
ComputeCapabilitiesFilter
ComputeFilter
CoreFilter
NUMATopologyFilter
DifferentHostFilter
DiskFilter
GroupAffinityFilter
GroupAntiAffinityFilter
ImagePropertiesFilter
IsolatedHostsFilter
IoOpsFilter
JsonFilter
MetricsFilter
NumInstancesFilter
PciPassthroughFilter
RamFilter
RetryFilter
SameHostFilter
ServerGroupAffinityFilter
ServerGroupAntiAffinityFilter
SimpleCIDRAffinityFilter
TrustedFilter
TypeAffinityFilter
Weights
Chance scheduler
Host aggregates and availability zones
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
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
Compute log files
Compute sample configuration files
nova.conf - configuration options
Additional sample configuration files
api-paste.ini
policy.json
rootwrap.conf
New, updated and deprecated options in Kilo for OpenStack Compute
4. Dashboard
Configure the dashboard
Configure the dashboard for HTTP
Configure the dashboard for HTTPS
Customize the dashboard
Additional sample configuration files
keystone_policy.json
nova_policy.json
Dashboard log files
5. Database service
Configure the database
Configure the RPC messaging system
Configure RabbitMQ
Configure Qpid
Configure ZeroMq
Configure messaging
New, updated and deprecated options in Kilo for Database service
6. Data processing service
New, updated and deprecated options in Kilo for Data Processing service
7. Identity service
Caching layer
Identity service configuration file
Identity service sample configuration files
keystone.conf
keystone-paste.ini
logging.conf
policy.json
Domain-specific configuration
New, updated and deprecated options in Kilo for OpenStack Identity
8. Image service
Configure the API
Configure the RPC messaging system
Support for ISO images
Configure back ends
Configure vCenter data stores for the Image service back end
Configure vCenter data stores for the back end
Image service sample configuration files
glance-api.conf
glance-registry.conf
glance-api-paste.ini
glance-manage.conf
glance-registry-paste.ini
glance-scrubber.conf
policy.json
New, updated and deprecated options in Kilo for OpenStack Image service
9. Networking
Networking configuration options
Networking plug-ins
BigSwitch configuration options
Brocade configuration options
Brocade MLX L3 plug-in
Brocade Vyatta layer 3 plug-in
CISCO configuration options
CloudBase Hyper-V Agent configuration options
Embrane configuration options
IBM SDN-VE configuration options
Layer 2 Gateway configuration options
Linux bridge Agent 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) GRE Type configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) VLAN Type configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) VXLAN Type configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Arista Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) BigSwitch Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Brocade Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 3 (ml2) Brocade MLX ICX Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Cisco Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Freescale SDN Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) OpenDaylight Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) OpenFlow Agent (ofagent) Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) L2 Population Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Tail-f NCS Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) SR-IOV Mechanism configuration options
MidoNet configuration options
NEC configuration options
One Convergence NVSD configuration options
OpenContrail configuration options
Open vSwitch Agent configuration options
PLUMgrid configuration options
SR-IOV configuration options
VMware vSphere configuration options
VMware NSX configuration options
Configure the Oslo RPC messaging system
Configure RabbitMQ
Configure Qpid
Configure ZeroMQ
Configure messaging
Agent
API
Token authentication
Compute
Database
Logging
DHCP agent
Distributed virtual router
Firewall-as-a-Service driver
IPv6 router advertisement
L3 agent
Logging
Metadata Agent
Metering Agent
Nova
Policy
Policy
Quotas
Scheduler
Security Groups
SSL and Certification Authority
Log files used by Networking
Networking sample configuration files
neutron.conf
api-paste.ini
policy.json
rootwrap.conf
Configuration files for plug-in agents
dhcp_agent.ini
l3_agent.ini
metadata_agent.ini
New, updated and deprecated options in Kilo for OpenStack Networking
10. Object Storage
Introduction to Object Storage
Object Storage general service configuration
Object server configuration
Sample object server configuration file
Object expirer configuration
Sample object expirer configuration file
Container server configuration
Sample container server configuration file
Container sync realms configuration
Sample container sync realms configuration file
Container reconciler configuration
Sample container sync reconciler configuration file
Account server configuration
Sample account server configuration file
Proxy server configuration
Sample proxy server configuration file
Proxy server memcache configuration
Rsyncd configuration
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
Cross-origin resource sharing
Endpoint listing middleware
New, updated and deprecated options in Kilo for OpenStack Object Storage
11. Orchestration
Configure APIs
Configure Clients
Configure the RPC messaging system
Configure RabbitMQ
Configure Qpid
Configure ZeroMQ
Configure messaging
New, updated and deprecated options in Kilo for Orchestration
12. Telemetry
Telemetry sample configuration files
ceilometer.conf
event_definitions.yaml
pipeline.yaml
event_pipeline.yaml
policy.json
New, updated and deprecated options in Kilo for Telemetry
A. The policy.json file
Examples
Syntax
Older syntax
B. Firewalls and default ports
C. 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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