Multi Node OpenStack setup

Introduction

The OpenStack setup can have services separately on different machines in order to optimize performance. Here is a procedure for installing a four machine setup. The setup has all the machines running Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. The version of OpenStack is Essex. This procedure is based on OpenStack Beginner’s Guide

Controller

Installation of the components

Install all the components of the controller

OpenStack Beginner’s Guide V3.0 for Essex on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

OpenStack Beginner’s Guide V3.0 for Essex on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) is now available as a pdf file. We would like to thank all the people who have directly or indirectly helped us in bringing out this guide.

Please have a look at it and let us know if you have any  comments/suggestions/feedback. We will do our best to enhance the guide based on your suggestions.

What’s new in V3.0:

• Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service.
• Horizon – OpenStack Dashboard.
• Keystone integration with nova, glance and swift.
• Image bundling procedure for Redhat, CentOS, OpenSuse and Debian.
• Replacement of euca-* commands with nova and glance commands.

Bundling CentOS Image with VNC access for OpenStack

This article explains how to create a CentOS 6 image with VNC access on KVM for uploading it to the image store on OpenStack Diablo.  I have used KVM running on Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit server for creation of the image.