Hi all, i've been playing around with Openstack for a while and have a few questions. Technically I have a lot and its getting in the way of watching Highlander 3 the apology.
My end goal is do be able to spawn images based loosely on redhat/centos 5 and then coming up with a way to customize a base image, then deploy. This is all lab stuff, nothing production. I kind of got what i was looking using KVM and sawfish. What i didn't like was needed to do all the network plumbing. If someone can give me some pointers that would be great. Issues: How do i setup my initial VM. I can't expect virtio to be supported so i'll need e1000 and either a scsi or ide controller. I think i've seen that glance can do this, but I haven't tested yet. I'm not understanding if i need to do that every time i make a volume. Is that something i can do via Heat as well? How can i install via ISO? I've made a few attempts but failed. Just to start from scatch, would the idea be attach 2 volumes. 1 iso and 1 for storage device? I'm assuming i could also just export a qcow2 image again with iscsi or ide disk, I need to edit change interface names. I did this via sawfish by making custom udev rules. Basically sawfish the image then boot. I guess is sawfish support in there but I could just sawfish the raw image before booting worst case just not sure if this is the correct path forward or not. I also want to do other customizations to a given vm. Again did this via sawfish but for example i drop a /etc/rc.local.user which configures things at first boot, removes rc.local.user and then reboots. After this the VM is ready to go. My setup 1 controller / network / storage / node, r510 - 128gb ram, 12x2TB drives ( everything running on a raid 10 - md split into 2 devices OS and iScsi store)) , 2x 10gbe - iscsi 1 compute r620 - 256 gb ram, 4x 600MB drives, 2x 10gbe 1 deploy host small atom based host. I've been deploying with Kolla-Ansible if that was a question so everything is Docker images. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
