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Introduction

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

1. Controller2. Compute Node3. Volume Node4. Storage Node

Controller Compute Node Volume Node Storage Node

Nova API, Nova

Scheduler, Nova Cert,

Nova Consoleauth,Nova Network, Nova

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Services Doc,

Keystone, OpenStack,Dashboard, MySQL,

RabbitMQ Server

Nova Compute Nova Volume Swift, glance

No of NICs 2 2 2 2

IP AddressesEth0-10.0.0.11, Eth1-192.168.3.1

Eth0-10.0.0.12, Eth1-192.168.3.2

Eth0-10.0.0.13, Eth1192.168.3.3

Eth0-10.0.0.14, Eth1192.168.3.4

PartitioningScheme

/boot – 2G, /home –

40G, swap – 4G, /var-20G / – Rest of the

space.

/boot – 2G, swap – 4G,

/- 70G, /50G,/var/lib/nova-Rest of the

space.

/boot – 2G, / – 10G, /var

– 5G, swap – 4G, LVMVolume Group with the

name nova-volumes –rest of the space

/boot – 2G, / – 50G,

/var/lib/glance – 500G,Swp – 4G, Create an

empty partition forSwift in rest of the space

Hostname controller compute volume storage

Gateway IP 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.1

Controller

The Controller consists of the following components

1. Nova API

2. Nova Scheduler3. Nova Cert

4. Nova Consoleauth

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5. Nova Network

6. Nova Doc7. Keystone

8. OpenStack Dashboard

9. MySQL

10. RabbitMQ Server

The recommended Hardware needed for the contrroller would be a Server with memory of around 2GB with Non VT-Enabled CPU and

500GB of Disk space.

Compute Node

The Compute Node has the following components

1. nova-compute

The recommended Hardware needed for the contrroller would be a Server with memory of around 10GB with VT-Enabled CPU and 1

TB of Disk space. The Memory and Storage capacity can be increased according to needs of the environment.

Volume Node

The recommended Hardware needed for the contrroller would be a Server with memory of around 4GB with Non VT-Enabled CPU and

5 TB of Disk space. The Storage capacity can be increased according to needs of the environment.

The Volume Node has the following components

1. nova-volume

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Storage Node

The recommended Hardware needed for the contrroller would be a Server with memory of around 4GB with Non VT-Enabled CPU and5 TB of Disk space. The Storage capacity can be increased according to needs of the environment.

The Storage Node has the following components

1. swift-account2. swift-container3. swift-object4. swift-proxy5. memchached6. glance-api7. glance-registry

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September 13, 2012 at 4:09 pm

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Good idea.A simple question, why not with FOLSOM?

It is stable as it can be added projects: QUANTUM and CINDER?Thank you.

Moula

October 3, 2012 at 5:39 pm

ReplyIt was on the pipeline. And then we got busy with other things and the idea kinda stalled. We’re planning to bring out a Grizzly

doc and hopefully Havana too

–Y

Yogesh

September 13, 2013 at 4:39 pm

Reply

Thank you for this answer, one year after

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Thank you for this answer, one year after We can talk now, from Havan with : Neutron, Heat, Lbaas, Vpnaas, Ceilometer…Decidedly the openstack project going too fast.

thank’you

Moula

September 13, 2013 at 7:00 pm

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