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Adds a top-level guide for Nova, with links off to the various virt driver guides. Generalises the libvirt TLS guide into a libvirt guide, and adds info on hardware virtualisation and qemu vs. kvm. Adds information on configuring consoles. Change-Id: I36beaaee313bdbc4bcf8cc15c41dda245a5a81ba
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Nova - Compute Service
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Nova is a core service in OpenStack, and provides compute services. Typically
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this is via Virtual Machines (VMs), but may also be via bare metal servers if
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Nova is coupled with Ironic.
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Nova is enabled by default, but may be disabled by setting ``enable_nova`` to
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``no`` in ``globals.yml``.
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Virtualisation Drivers
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======================
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The virtualisation driver may be selected via ``nova_compute_virt_type`` in
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``globals.yml``. Supported options are ``qemu``, ``kvm``, ``vmware``, and
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``xenapi``. The default is ``kvm``.
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HyperV
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------
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Information on using Nova with HyperV can be found in :doc:`hyperv-guide`.
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Libvirt
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-------
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Information on the libvirt-based drivers ``kvm`` and ``qemu`` can be found in
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:doc:`libvirt-guide`.
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VMware
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------
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Information on the VMware-based driver ``vmware`` can be found in
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:doc:`vmware-guide`.
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XenServer
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---------
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Information on the XenServer-based driver ``xenapi`` can be found in
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:doc:`xenserver-guide`.
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Bare Metal
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----------
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Information on using Nova with Ironic to deploy compute instances to bare metal
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can be found in :doc:`../bare-metal/ironic-guide`.
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Fake Driver
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-----------
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The fake driver can be used for testing Nova's scaling properties without
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requiring access to a large amount of hardware resources. It is covered in
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:doc:`nova-fake-driver`.
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Consoles
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========
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The console driver may be selected via ``nova_console`` in ``globals.yml``.
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Valid options are ``none``, ``novnc``, ``spice``, or ``rdp``. Additionally,
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serial console support can be enabled by setting
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``enable_nova_serialconsole_proxy`` to ``yes``.
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