1. Hyper-V and OpenStack
Alessandro Pilotti Peter Pouliot
CEO Cloudbase Solutions Sr SDET OpenStack
@cloudbaseit Microsoft

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. Hyper-V 2012 availability
 FREE edition
 Full Hypervisor
 Minimum OS support
 Minimum impact on security updates, etc
 Windows Server 2012
 Just enable the related role
 Windows 8
 For workstation / testing / development usage

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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)

12. 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

14. Grizzly is Coming
 Planning for Grizzly now!
 Quantum
 RDP access to VM Consoles
 Windows Guest Agent
 Cinder
 SQL Server support

16. Resources
 OpenStack Hyper-V Wiki
 http://wiki.openstack.org/Hyper-V
 OpenStack Compute installer
 http://www.cloudbase.it
 Hyper-V
 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/hyper-v-
server/