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Liberty end-of-life
OpenStack configuration overview
Conventions
Notices
Command prompts
Configuration file format
Sections
Substitution
Whitespace
Define an alternate location for a config file
1. Bare metal
New, updated, and deprecated options in Liberty for Bare metal service
2. Block Storage
Introduction to the Block Storage service
Volume drivers
Blockbridge EPS
Introduction
Architecture reference
Control paths
Block storage API
Extended management
Attribute-based provisioning
Supported operations
Supported protocols
Configuration steps
Create an authentication token
Create volume type
Specify volume driver
Specify API endpoint and authentication
Specify resource query
Configuration options
Configuration example
Multiple volume types
Testing resources
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
Extra spec options
iSCSI configuration
Fibre Channel configuration
Driver options
Dot Hill AssuredSAN Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
System requirements
Supported operations
Configuring the array
Driver-specific options
EMC ScaleIO Block Storage driver configuration
Support matrix
ScaleIO QoS support
ScaleIO thin provisioning support
Supported operations
ScaleIO Block Storage driver configuration
ScaleIO driver name
ScaleIO MDM server IP
ScaleIO protection domain name
ScaleIO storage pool name
ScaleIO storage pools
ScaleIO user credentials
Multiple back ends
Restarting OpenStack Block Storage
Configuration example
Configuration 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 driver
Overview
System requirements
Supported operations
Preparation
Install Navisphere CLI
Check array software
Install EMC VNX driver
Network configuration
Backend configuration
Minimum configuration
Multi-backend configuration
Required configurations
IP of the VNX Storage Processors
VNX login credentials
Path to your Unisphere CLI
Driver name
Optional configurations
VNX pool names
Initiator auto registration
Force delete volumes in storage group
Over subscription in thin provisioning
Storage group automatic deletion
Initiator auto deregistration
FC SAN auto zoning
Volume number threshold
iSCSI initiators
Default timeout
Max LUNs per storage group
Ignore pool full threshold
Extra spec options
Provisioning type
Storage tiering support
FAST cache support
Snap-copy
Pool name
Obsoleted extra specs in Liberty
Advanced features
Read-only volumes
Efficient non-disruptive volume backup
Best practice
Multipath setup
Restrictions and limitations
iSCSI port cache
No extending for volume with snapshots
Limitations for deploying cinder on computer node
Storage group with host names in VNX
EMC storage-assisted volume migration
Appendix
Authenticate by security file
Register FC port with VNX
Register iSCSI port with VNX
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:
Manage and unmanage
Additional notes
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
HP MSA Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
System requirements
Supported operations
Configuring the array
Driver-specific options
Huawei volume driver
Version mappings
Volume Driver Configuration
Configuring the volume driver for iSCSI storage
Configuring the volume driver for T series V1 (iSCSI)
Configuring the volume driver for T series V2 (iSCSI)
Configuring the volume driver for V3 (iSCSI)
Configuring the volume driver for OceanStor 18000 series (iSCSI)
Parameters in the configuration file
Configuring iSCSI Multipathing
Configuring CHAP and ALUA
Configuring the volume driver (Fibre Channel)
Configuring the volume driver for T series V1 (Fibre Channel)
Configuring the volume driver for T series V2 (Fibre Channel)
Configuring the volume driver for V3 (Fibre Channel)
Configuring the volume driver for OceanStor 18000 series (Fibre Channel)
Parameters in the configuration file
Configuring multi-storage support
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 SONAS and Storwise V7000 volume driver
IBM XIV and DS8000 volume driver
IBM FlashSystem volume driver
Configure FlashSystem
Configure storage array
Configure user authentication for the driver
IBM FlashSystem FC driver
Data Path configuration
Enable IBM FlashSystem FC driver
IBM FlashSystem iSCSI driver
Network configuration
Enable IBM FlashSystem iSCSI driver
Limitation and known issues
Supported operations
Lenovo Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
System requirements
Supported operations
Configuring the array
Driver-specific options
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 Storage volume driver
Supported operations
Nimble Storage driver configuration
Nimble driver extra spec options
Configuration options
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 iSCSI and Fibre Channel volume drivers
Limitations and known issues
Supported operations
Configure OpenStack and Purity
Scality SOFS driver
Supported operations
Configuration
Sheepdog driver
Supported operations
Configuration
SambaFS driver
SolidFire
Tintri
Violin Memory 6000 series AFA volume driver
System requirements
Supported operations
Array configuration
Driver configuration
Fibre channel configuration
iSCSI configuration
Configuration parameters
Violin Memory 7000 Series FSP volume driver
System requirements
Supported operations
Driver configuration
Fibre channel configuration
Configuration parameters
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 iSCSI driver
Configuration
Supported operations
ZFSSA assisted volume migration
ZFSSA local cache
Supported extra specs
Driver options
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance NFS driver
Requirements
Supported operations
Appliance configuration
Cinder service configuration
Driver options
ZFSSA local cache
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 supported by the key manager
Initial configuration
Create an encrypted volume type
Create an encrypted volume
Testing volume encryption
Additional options
New, updated, and deprecated options in Liberty for OpenStack Block Storage
3. Shared File Systems
Introduction to the Shared File Systems service
Share drivers
EMC Isilon driver
Requirements
Supported operations
Backend configuration
Restrictions
Driver configuration options
EMC VNX driver
Requirements
Supported operations
Pre-configurations on VNX
Backend configuration
Restrictions
Driver configuration options
Generic approach for share provisioning
Network configurations
Requirements for service image
Supported shared filesystems
Known restrictions
GlusterFS driver
Supported shared filesystems
Supported operations
Requirements
Shared File Systems service driver configuration setting
Known restrictions
Driver configuration options
GlusterFS Native driver
Network approach
Supported shared filesystems
Multi-tenancy model
Supported operations
Requirements
Shared File Systems service driver configuration setting
Known restrictions
Driver configuration options
HDFS native driver
Network configuration
Supported shared filesystems
Supported operations
Requirements
Shared File Systems service driver configuration
Known restrictions
Driver configuration options
HP 3PAR driver
Supported operations
Requirements
Pre-configuration on the HP 3PAR
Backend configuration
Network approach
Share types
Driver configuration options
Huawei driver
Requirements
Supported operations
Pre-configurations on Huawei
Backend configuration
Share types
Restrictions
Driver configuration options
NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP driver
Network approach
Supported shared filesystems
Required licenses
Known restrictions
Driver configuration options
Log files used by Shared File Systems
Shared File Systems sample configuration files
manila.conf
api-paste.ini
policy.json
rootwrap.conf
Configuration Options
New, updated, and deprecated options in Liberty for Shared File Systems service
4. 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
XenServer (and other XAPI based Xen variants)
Terminology
Xen
XAPI
XenAPI
XenServer
XCP
XenServer-core
Kronos
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
XenAPI configuration reference
Agent
VNC proxy address
Storage
XenAPI configuration reference
Xen via Libvirt
Installing Xen with Libvirt
Configuring Xen with Libvirt
Additional configuration options
Troubleshoot Xen with Libvirt
Known issues
Additional information and resources
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
Utilization aware scheduling
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 Liberty for OpenStack Compute
5. 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
6. Database service
Configure the database
Configure the RPC messaging system
Configure RabbitMQ
Configure Qpid
Configure ZeroMq
Configure messaging
New, updated, and deprecated options in Liberty for Database service
7. Data processing service
New, updated, and deprecated options in Liberty for Data Processing service
8. Identity service
Caching layer
Identity service configuration file
Domain-specific configuration
Enable drivers for domain-specific configuration files
Domain-specific configuration file
Enable drivers for storing configuration options in SQL database
Migrate domain-specific configuration files to the SQL database
Identity service sample configuration files
keystone.conf
keystone-paste.ini
logging.conf
policy.json
New, updated, and deprecated options in Liberty for OpenStack Identity
9. 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 Liberty for OpenStack Image service
10. Networking
Networking configuration options
Networking plug-ins
BaGpipe configuration options
BigSwitch configuration options
Brocade configuration options
Brocade MLX L3 plug-in
Brocade Vyatta layer 3 plug-in
CISCO configuration options
Fujitsu CFAB configuration options
Fujitsu ISM configuration options
CloudBase Hyper-V Agent configuration options
Embrane configuration options
IBM SDN-VE configuration options
Layer 2 Gateway configuration options
Layer 2 Gateway configuration options
Linux bridge Agent 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) BaGpipe 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) Geneve 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
Open Networking Operating System (ONOS) configuration options
OpenContrail configuration options
Open vSwitch Agent configuration options
Virtual Network for Open vSwitch options
IPv6 Prefix Delegation configuradtion options
PLUMgrid configuration options
SR-IOV configuration options
VMware vSphere configuration options
VMware NSX configuration options
VMware DVS configuration options
Configure the Oslo RPC messaging system
Configure RabbitMQ
Configure Qpid
Configure ZeroMQ
Configure messaging
Agent
API
Token authentication
Compute
CORS
Database
DHCP agent
Distributed virtual router
Firewall-as-a-Service driver
Load-Balancer-as-a-Service configuration options
VPN-as-a-Service configuration options
IPv6 router advertisement
L3 agent
Logging
Metadata Agent
Metering Agent
Nova
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 Liberty for OpenStack Networking
11. 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 Liberty for OpenStack Object Storage
12. Orchestration
Configure APIs
Configure Clients
Configure the RPC messaging system
Configure RabbitMQ
Configure Qpid
Configure ZeroMQ
Configure messaging
New, updated, and deprecated options in Liberty for Orchestration
13. Telemetry
Telemetry configuration options
Telemetry Alarming service configuration options
Telemetry sample configuration files
ceilometer.conf
event_definitions.yaml
pipeline.yaml
event_pipeline.yaml
policy.json
New, updated, and deprecated options in Liberty 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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